Mow, whose private company oversees much of bitcoin’s development, derided the meme as sexist and misogynistic. Soon, lawyers were drafted in and the Twitter user who created the meme found his account abruptly deleted.
Yet Samson Mow’s reaction to the meme revealed more about himself than it did those pesky, sexist meme-makers.
As YouTuber Vin Armani points out in the video below, the “Guy She Tells You Not to Worry About ”meme is targeted specifically at men.
The meme preys exclusively on male insecurity, questioning their ability to attract females when competing against such alpha specimens as the “gym friend.”
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As Armani notes in his video breakdown of 221779 ‘s) and possibly
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The men for whom this is most triggering are the men who identify most with the inadequate male. The ‘you’ in the ‘you vs the guy she tells you not to worry about’.
Memes are already the internet’s most dominant art form. The speed with which they spread stands as a testament to the power of the messages they contain. Armani notes:
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