Social Media
The page title says “social media,” but all you’re getting from this millennial is memes.
Not just any memes, no. These are memes I created.
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The Coburg Cow (below) is a landmark in Charleston. We use it much like Pennsylvanians use groundhogs — except more reliable. Cow up? Weather good. Cow down? Weather bad.
Anyway, I believe I peaked as a social media creator in 2021 when I photoshopped Bernie Sanders onto the Coburg Cow to localize the “Bernie Sanders Wearing Mittens” meme trend.
Weather regularly proved to be the most meme-worthy topic.
As Hurricane Florence bore down on the Carolinas in 2018, I appealed on behalf of Charleston to a higher power: Jim Cantore. Everyone knows when he shows up to your hometown during a natural disaster, it’s over.
So, I politely asked him to keep his distance. Thankfully he obliged.
It had already rained a lot that summer in Charleston. And I memed a lot.
Then the next summer, the final season of Game of Thrones’ happened to coincide with a freakish heat wave.
Charleston felt like King’s Landing after the Mother of Dragons had gone off the deep end.
Traffic in Charleston is not funny. But when your options are laugh or cry, why not laugh?
Like the time our state highway department shut down a six-lane interstate bridge, effectively eliminating one of three main arteries in the city for over a week.
They said something about cables disentegrating from corrosion. I thought it fair to speculate if a certain MCU Big Bad with a thing for disintegrating stuff might’ve been involved.
It was a reasonable question, but we never got an answer.
(Also, Thanos was right...)
Ah, early TikTok. Those were the days.
So, when Carole Baskin hopped on the COVID cash-in train, I had to spread the news with a clever caption.
What better inspiration than the song that defined a generation?