My toxic trait is I hold terrible grudges against the inevitable, natural evolution of any specific ur-meme source phrase/image/template into a less specific or precise or elegant but more memorable and generalizable popular meme format.
I know I am wildly unreasonable about this -- and often probably even mistaken about the evolution and just clinging to some early-but-not-original variant that was my first encounter -- and so mostly keep it to my grink-y ass self because don't be that guy.
I was thinking about the Anakin/Padme meme in particular just now; an early variant I saw, before it was eeeeverywhere, paced it better than most versions I've seen since. But it may well not have been the initial form.
Key feature of my preferred form is a jokey negative in Padme's first response, e.g.:
ANAKIN, smiling: I'm going to do [ambiguous thing]
PADME, jokingly chummily: But not [bad version of thing]
ANAKIN, smiling darkly: ...
PADME, suddenly serious: ...but not [bad thing], right?
@joshmillard
AI, gimme two versions with things only Gen Z would know.
ANAKIN, smiling: I'm going to do the TikTok dance.
PADME, jokingly chummily: But not the Floss, right?
ANAKIN, smiling darkly: ...
PADME, suddenly serious: ...but not the Floss, right?
ANAKIN, smiling: I'm going to do the Shiggy challenge.
PADME, jokingly chummily: But not the In My Feelings challenge, right?
ANAKIN, smiling darkly: ...
PADME, suddenly serious: ...but not the In My Feelings challenge, right?
Josh "cortex" Millard
JB