![]() For TikTok user his " Rare Footage on Badussy War" video, subtitled “The only thing we have to learn in history”, is among his most watched with 2.1 million views. The only history lesson you needįinally, there is crass misogyny. As of Monday, May 2, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) stated 3,153 civilians had been killed since the invasion on February 24. Perhaps he realised, noone in Ukraine was "chilling and kicking back". (The creator’s original "chilling and kicking back" comment on the post has since been removed). This post did dual service, to promote Twitch account, and yes, to be funny. It wasn’t pretty, with comments such as “Bro people who don’t know this song clearly don’t have a child hood boutta be a Battle Royale at this point □□ #ww3 #worldwar3 #fyp #foryou #memes #war #comedy I screenshot a portion of those comments to gauge what exactly the response had been. This How Me And The Boys Pulling Up To WW3 In Our Tank video was especially hard to watch, for me, but perhaps not so hard for the 4.7 million others who watched and commented on it. Whether supportive or opposed, this engagement generat es more hate and distracts from the tragedy unfolding in Ukraine. The video has more than 11,000 comments, many negative, and over 380,000 likes, evidence of how much engagement videos such as this will draw. The video ignores the plight of Ukrainians to celebrate what Fadeev sees as the more significant development, Russia's rise to top of the world's "most hated country" list over Israel. This vid, with 4.6 million views, is one of her more popular ones.Īny empathy that might be implied from the #stopthewar hashtag is erased by the caption "great success" and the meme's text "when you're not the most hated country anymore". Her account is dedicated to defending Israel and mocking Palestine. Meet This TikTokker is an Israeli Defence Force soldier. It took me down a rabbit hole I never knew existed. ![]() ![]() I wanted to learn more about what was happening in Ukraine. Gen Z, and possibly Millennials, haven’t lived through the brutality of war and hopefully never will, so they feel the need to “memeify” it, make it into a sick joke that was never and will never be funny.įor me, it started with a simple TikTok search for “war”. I accept that Gen Zs are known for our strange, sometimes-bordering-on-another-language-weird meme production and humour, but this is where I draw the line. Have we become so infatuated with the idea of followers and likes that even something as serious as the death toll and the destruction of a country is legitimate fodder for some Gen Z influencer in search of a “like-fuelled” serotonin boost? Gen Z donates with one hand, while anonymously commenting “gen z b like” on a supposedly unrelated war meme with the other. Alongside the overwhelming outpouring of support for Ukraine, sits the memes. The sheer volume of Ukraine war-linked memes astounds me. And on TikTok, the content is, how would you describe it? Diverse? Unrefined? Strange? A combination of all three? I’m as addicted to TikTok as the next Gen Z user but there’s one thing I can’t get behind - “war mockery” for entertainment. Meme culture is alive and well and truly thriving. When war on the internet becomes a meme, it shifts from ugly to plain disrespectful.
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