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Resisting Negative Stereotypes through CounterMemes Erika M Sparby Northern Illinois University Sparbtastic Cultural Rhetorics Conference October 2 2016 A Brief Primer on Memes Meme a piece of content that achieved popularity on the web Stryker 21 ID: 619812

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Fake Geek Girl, Remixed: Resisting Negative Stereotypes through Counter-Memes

Erika M. SparbyNorthern Illinois University@Sparbtastic

Cultural Rhetorics Conference

October 2, 2016Slide2
Slide3

A Brief Primer on MemesMeme

“a piece of content… that achieved popularity… on the web” (Stryker 21). Image Macro MemeMeme that includes top and bottom text with and image sandwiched between.Slide4

Examples of Image Macro MemesSlide5

Cultural Significance of Memes

Occupy Wall Street (Milner)

Human Rights Logo (

Vie

)Slide6

Tony Harris’s Fake Geek Girl RantHey! Quasi-Pretty-NOT-Hot-Girl, you are more pathetic than the REAL Nerds….

You are willing to become almost completely Naked in public, and yer either skinny( Well, some or most of you, THINK you are ) or you have Big Boobies. Notice I didnt say GREAT Boobies? You are what I refer to as "CON-HOT"…. You have this really awful need for attention, for people to tell you your pretty, or Hot….

And here it is, THE REASON WHY ALL THAT, sickens us: BECAUSE YOU DONT KNOW SHIT ABOUT COMICS….

(

qtd

. Johnston)Slide7

Tony Harris’s “Apology”My candor and my delivery of most things can be and usually is quite blunt. Can’t help who I am, but what I’m not, and never have been is a misogynist or sexist or any number of things I was called. I have the utmost respect for all the women in my life from my mother, my sister,

motherinlaw, my wife and wonderful 2 daughters…Hey haters, Im not sad, lonely, stupid, uneducated, gay, nor do I wear Assess for a Hat.

Im

not a Sexist, and have been very vocal about the fact that its a GOOD thing to see so many female fans at shows, and I treat them with the same kindness and respect as I do ANY male fan I meet…

I guess the one mistake I made in my original post was that I excluded Men.

(

qtd

. Johnston)Slide8

#GamerGate

Zoë Quinn

Brianna Wu

Anita SarkeesianSlide9

Fake Geek Girl, MemedSlide10

Remixing Fake Geek GirlJay Rachel Edidin

What other approaches could I take? All I can think of is maybe asking quickmeme to take it down, which I absolutely wouldn't do--there's a critical difference between subverting the content and challenging its right to be there, and that's a line I wouldn't cross” (qtd Fenn)

Joel Penney

“Rather than attempting to shut down and block out ‘bad’ images, satire resituates their meaning by embracing them and transforming them through creative cultural processes” (229). Slide11

Counter-Meming

Mike Godwin“crafting good memes to drive out the bad ones”Michele Knobel and Colin Lankshear

“the deliberate generation of a meme that aims at neutralizing or eradicating potentially harmful ideas” (223)Slide12

Fake Geek Girl, Remixed

Edidin (

qtd

Zuckerman):

“The new Nerd Girl memes are celebratory. They’re funny, and angry, obscure and prosaic. Some poke fun at recurring themes in the old meme; others speak from personal experience or rehash specific incidents. They’re snarky and sincere, frustrated and frank.”Slide13

Fake Geek Girl, Remixed

Edidin (

qtd

.

Fenn

)

“I’m not fond of the ones that are really hostile or depend on negative stereotypes of geeks—for me, the point [of the remix] is challenging the cycle of gatekeeping, not just changing its direction”Slide14

Impact of Fake Geek Counter-Memes Slide15

Works CitedEdidin, Jay Rachel. “Idiot Nerd Girl Has a Posse: Taking Back the Meme.”

Feminspire. 12 Oct 2013. Web. 13 Oct 2013. Fenn, Mike. Interview with Rachel Edidin. “Why a Comics Editor is Taking Back the Idiot Nerd Girl Meme.” The Daily Dot. 13 Sep 2012. Web. 26 Jan 2016.

Godwin, Mike. “Meme, Counter-Meme.”

Wired

. 1 Oct 1994. Web. 15 Feb 2016.

Hern

, Alex. “Nerds: Stop Hating Women, Please.”

New Statesman

. 13 Nov 2012. Web. 13 Oct 2013.

“Idiot Nerd Girl.”

Know Your Meme

. 9 June 2010. Web. 10 March 2016.

Johnston, Rich. “ Hey! Quasi-Pretty-NOT-Hot-Girl, You Are More Pathetic Than The REAL Nerds’ – Tony Harris (UPDATE).”

Bleeding Cool

. 13 Nov 2012. Web. 15 Sep 2016.

Knobel

, Michele and Colin

Lankshear

. “Online Memes, Affinities, and Cultural Production.”

A New Literacy Sampler

. Eds. Michele

Knobel

and Colin

Lankshear

. New York: Peter Lang, 2007. 197-227. Print.

Milner, Ryan. “Pop Polyvocality: Internet Memes, Public Participation, and the Occupy Wall Street Movement.”

International Journal of Communication

7 (2013): 2357-2390. Print.

Stryker, Cole.

Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan’s Army Conquered the Web

. New York: The Overlook P, 2011. Print.

Vie, Stephanie. “In Defense of ‘Slacktivism’: The Human Rights Campaign Facebook Logo As Digital Activism.”

First Monday

19.4 (2014). Web. 25 Nov 2015.

Zuckerman, Esther. “Taking Back a Meme: Idiot Nerd Girl.”

The Wire

. 10 Sep 2012. Web. 25 Jan 2016.