Hello crumbunity! Today, we chat all about memes and the power of humour in wars and conflict (yes we are looking at you Ukraine twitter). While the war is devastating, it sparked some interesting convo about the use of memes in communist countries and how historically, people have used them as a tool of resistance or just political shit stirring. We define memes to punch-up as they can be made by your average nerdy kid on an ipod touch, which is different from propganda that punches down. From soldiers riding penises, to kermit the frog and tiktok humour, we touch the surface of the humanising power of comedy and its use as a coping mechanism. PLUS we introduce our new segment... and it's lit.

LINKS
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-40627855
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-27/ukrainians-social-media-resistance-humour/100865164
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2020.547065/full
https://www.amity.edu/gwalior/jccc/pdf/jcc-journal-december-2017-13-17.pdf
https://www.mdpi.com/2673-5172/3/1/4/pdf
https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/first-meme-ever

CREDITS
As always, thanks to Lulu @by_lulu_nicholls for the artwork and Max Arnold @maxarnold for the intro/outro music!!

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