“Fuck anyone’s disdain for meme culture and the claim that its sole benefit is the lionization of fringe artists who would have otherwise gone unnoticed. Meme culture is keeping anger over BP alive. Meme culture shows people in an increasingly customized-to-your-current-mediocre-tastes TV society that there are weird and wonderful things in the world. Meme culture is keeping Austin, San Francisco, and New York weird, and it’s making plenty of small towns weird as well. It’s showing kids in dead-end lives that they could make it big without anyone’s permission. Meme culture is a force for good in the world, and it will win over reactionists both kneejerk and considered.”