What They Took From Us Open Thread

There's a fun but bittersweet meme called "What They Took From Us." The idea is that you show something nice that we used to have, which has now disappeared.

I first saw the meme about Pizza Hut's old distinctively-roofed buildings versus the Ikea Construction Company boxes they have now.

So they idea is that you offer an overwrought lament that you've lost a major part of your cultural patrimony, but then you just link some trivial mass-market nostalgia-bait.

So here's a What They Took From Us: Insanely hot girls on TV who are on TV just because they're insanely hot and people like looking at insanely hot girls.

The left hates this meme, of course, because they hate anyone who's having fun.

They're also mostly hysterical autistic scolds so they don't understand tropes like deadpan humor.

Accurate but grubby in its fun-shaming.

posted by Ace at 05:30 PM

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