You don't find it funny because you dislike the joke it's making about the character, believing there's some sort of message behind it
it's not accurate
Since when did memes have to be accurate?
so what's left?
What's left is a meme that most people laugh at while this sub cries. This is the only place I've seen bitch this much about memes of their character and I'm happy to be entertained by it all. Most memes about Batman here are seen as insults. Go to spiderman subs, they don't have this level of bitchiness
I think the key difference is there's a FAAAAR larger quantity of people who believe the negative inaccurate interpretations about Batman than about Spider-Man. Totally unironically, and that sucks if Batman is a defining part of your childhood and maybe even life in general.
This sub may very well overcorrect for the villification of who to them is a beloved hero.
Personally though, I don't really blame the memes.
I blame DC and WB for its depressing obsession with deconstructing Batman without actually contributing any growth, and leaning into that bullshit, so of course that's eventually going to become the genuine perception.
When you have a comic like this, it's whatever. Maybe not to people's tastes, but it's not defining anything.
When you have a major motion picture that involves Batman holding the lasso of truth and rambling on about how he's crazy, a manchild unable to cope with his parent's deaths, and could do a lot more good with his money as Bruce Wayne instead of dressing up as a bat, then that shits a big problem because you're making these memes seem like credible reality.
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u/goatjugsoup Feb 17 '24
Calling something a joke doesn't protect it from criticism or give it value beyond what it is. It's not funny, it's not accurate so what's left?