Heinz memes beanz

When I returned to university in the early 2010s, there were a lot of wacky uni-related Facebook groups. I recall one where peeps could declare their attraction to beautiful strangers, e.g. "The girl in the red dress who sat at the front of the ECON102 lecture yesterday - will you have coffee with me?" There was another filled with surreptitious snaps of fellow students sporting the Jerry Seinfeld combo of button-up shirt, jeans and white sneakers. It's quite possible I unknowingly appeared in that group! My favourite of these online hangouts contained memes about campus life. They tended to follow familiar patterns, but I found them fun and they provided an "old guy" with insights into the minds of his younger classmates. I even made some of my own, which were well received.

In the years since, I've crafted the odd meme for posting on social media (when I did social media). If you've never made one yourself, I recommend it as a creative exercise of a different type. There are websites where you can just fill in the text, which is what I used to do. Otherwise, good ol' Word and Paint are the only tools you need. Additional examples of my handiwork can be seen below. Thinking about the UNSW net community of yore dredges up a memory of an exchange on the anime-club forum I still find amusing. Member A accused Member B of "crushing their dream" through repeated criticisms. Member B's reply: "But what if MY dream is to crush your dream?"