Wonka Meme Analysis

In its simplest form this is just a picture with text on it, but with the background information and an explanation of the quote, we know there is more to it than that. Let’s break this down piece by piece, “Every Culture and every age has its favorite model of perception.” In today’s world one of the ways we express ourselves is through memes. This meme in particular is popular because of its tone. It gives off a vibe of condescension, that feeling you get when you’re listening to someone and you don’t care or you think what is being said is stupid. That tone is what makes this meme, because we perceive everything with that tone. When we first hear or read some piece of news we almost immediately pick out what’s wrong or thoughtless with it. That is our “favorite model of perception,” we stoop down to someone’s level and attack them indirectly because the world frowns on a direct attack. This meme gives us a chance to say what we are really thinking. We live in a society where people share everything, whether we want to know about it or not and follow politics that we don’t agree with more than half the time, and Wonka’s grin is the perfect foil for a takedown of society’s significant …show more content…
Tell me more about how I’ve always been your favorite actor” is also a punch to the gut about today’ society. In the last half of the quote “that is inclined to prescribe for everybody and everything.” Because of our environment, we feel inclined to act in line with today’s standards. This meme in particular is talking about the passing of an actor and how we talk about how sad it is, but half the time we just say something because we feel obligated to because everyone else is doing it. Also in this meme Wonka, who is played by Gene Wilder recently passed away and all over social media people were saying how it was such a lost, that they loved his movies but in reality most people only know him because of this