new smorty meme!
I WAS THERE FOR THE CREATION OF THIS BTW <3
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i creditted the genderverse ~
Honestly, I used to make more of the memes I posted, but they take a lot of effort and the memes will sometimes not land, even when I think they're hilarious. This wasn't an issue when I felt I could post whenever I feel like, but as people started to look up to me in femcelmemes and as I became the sole moderator for a time, I quickly realized my oc wouldn't be enough. I couldn't compel myself to make them on demand.
At some point I decided I wanted there to be a new post everyday in femcelmemes. If other people were posting consistently, I often wouldn't post at all. When there were stretches of no one else posting, I wanted to make sure I had a backlog of good stuff to post. This rule is entirely made up out of my self interested desire to keep the com I fell in love with active. I love the vibe and want it to be a place people can rely on for girly funnies.
I'm fine if I can't meet my funni quotas on my own, because the best stuff is always made in collaboration with others. No single individual is so talented that they can make all the good shit; we just need to combine forces and share memes freely. Nothing would make me happier than having my oc shared on any random platform, just like I enjoy reposting memes from any random platform.
What I enjoy most nowadays is sharing oc from creators I enjoy and want others to experience. I share shaveposts and shenposts, GRS and the finest deranged gay memes I can find, and of course I share low effort panels from the ungodly amount of yuri I read. I just want other people to be able to enjoy my hobbies (٥↼_↼)
well.. bein a mod doesn force u to make funis, u kno?....
like - thads rlli nt the case..
bt i guess if u wana keep up the magicl feelin of there always bein funis around, i cn understand thad..
havn them credits wud be nice tho.,.,.,., ~jus~ ~sayin.,,.~
I try to attribute artwork, but it's hard to know who wrote a meme unless there's an unmistakable style (like your stuff has). For example:
There is no real way to know that I personally cobbled this meme together after googling "blue shark" and finding it utterly adorable. My personal story doesn't matter, because it's a meme I made to be generalized. I just want other people to feel the joy of doting over the real life blahaj.
It's not a feeling I own or care to own. That's not the way I view all memes, but the way I want mine to be. I want my jokes to be retold by people who will never know me. I find it magical that we can have both highly distinctive memes that capture an individual's personality and totally anonymized memes that capture common ideas.
hmmm thads tru...
oki fine, hav it ur way...,,..
You underestimate my ability to think all sharks are cute
all sharks are cute, but I think blahaj is especially adorable 💖
bein a mod doesn force u to make funis, u kno?
There should be someone to create activity in just created communities (or in abandoned communities if one wishes to resurrect it). People can't post in your community if they don't even know it exists - and posting stuff is the main way to tell others about this new place. It usually requires a lot of posts to break through the unending flow of 196 content.
yup, and as someone who goes directly to coms individually, not browsing by subscriptions or all, and only sorts by new, I like seeing new memes in a com whenever I check in the morning. For the weirdos like me, not having daily content makes me check it less often. I only catch up every couple of months once most of the discussions have already run their course.
Smorty you’re too good to go mainstream because you’re the cult classic. Peak 196. Underrated gem. 💎
(Also love the jaggies in a very sensorial way.)
awwwwwww thanksies!! <3
i dun think im an "underrated gem"... thad wording has kinda lost meaning cuz of game journalists n whatnot...
my funis r jus not as generally applicable as the funis copied from other platforms -
so i feel it makes sense kinda - yesyes.
alsoalso yeash! i always use the low resolution for the funis so its right in the middle of pixel art n higher res stuff ~
it retains the crunchiness bt alsuu the kinda smoothness, which is fun ~ ~
OC is great, and always welcome. But one thing I really appreciate about memes, is that they transcend ownership. Theyre made to spread and go viral, with no intentions but to be funny (generally speaking of course). Its such a breath of fresh air in this world where everything is copyrighted, everything is there to make money or give someone fame. Memes themselves truly transcend our capitalist structure and I dont want that gone, either.
oki fine... im srri, ur right....
Im not "right," Im simply sharing how I feel, my opinion on the matter. I also think comparing vote counts isnt a healthy outlook. If 60 people upvoted your post, and 90 people upvoted a meme, I understand the feeling of "I put so much more effort into my meme specifically for here,* but 60 people still took the time to click the button that says you made their day better. And the mene with 90 votes? It was selectively taken to be posted here from presumably many more that werent as good, or it wouldnt be shared cross platforms. Not really fair.
How do you make the cool backgrounds? Is it painted manually with digital brushes?
oh - yesyes its drawn "by hand" with some brushes..
i layered
- som airbrush with different colors
- some large colorful paint-brush dots
- some paint-sprickles droplets all over
- som digital cool lookin rectangles brush
n thads it.. layers make doing this... layering so easy! <3
all layers have a lower opacity, to allow seeing all of em.
You picked really nice colors
cuteee
where ~cute?~
in þe mirror
oh yisyis i believe ur an obsolete cutie <3 <3
no u
bt.... bt is u....
It's cool your keyboard has that key c:
I use mobile, just have to hold down t
I do, and have, posted OC here and to other communities. I pretty much have a rule that this account will only ever post things I've made, photos I've taken, things like that. This also comes with the caveat that I simply don't create all that much, and when I do, it's likely not relevant to a lot of communities anyway.
Only thing I've created this past month was an FSF memorabilia action unboxing video of a plush GNU I won. Not exactly the meme centric type of post 196 largely appreciates lol. If I create something I feel fits in the future though, I'll post it!
yisyis thads suprr cool! <3