Heroes Send Their Friends In Boot Camp Memes
Boot camp is hard. There's early mornings, intense physical challenges, and ornery drill sergeants. But the worst thing of all about boot camp: no memes (okay maybe not worst, but at least top 50).
In boot camp, the military takes away cell phones for the duration of the experience. That can leave soldiers-in-training without the sweet, dank memes that give the majority of us internet users the strength to get through The Days of Online.
Some intrepid Twitter users could not bear the thought of their friends in boot camp going without memes, and have decided to take action by sending their friends physical copies of memes through the mail. As our grandparents sent their loved ones overseas pictures of themselves to keep them warm in the cold reality of war, we send our loved ones the blinking guy.
My friend is at boot camp and I mail him memes to keep him entertained 😂 pic.twitter.com/KNLkvZazuB
— Luis Rembao (@LuisRxmbao) July 11, 2017
Yesterday, Twitter Moments posted a compilation of tweets from people talking about the struggle of living in boot camp without memes, along with several people who shared photos of the printed tweets and memes they'd think their friends would enjoy. It's about as touching as a meme-centric human interest story gets: when faced with the possibility of not being able to send their friends links to funny shit, devoted friends and significant others have gone and shared memes the old-fashioned way.
when ya bestf is in boot camp so u have to mail her memes #navy pic.twitter.com/Y2xAJVqqLY
— s̶u̶n̶d̶a̶ (@missssundastood) March 24, 2017
My cousin has no access to her phone at boot camp so I'm mailing her a book of my fav tweets & memes from the past few weeks she's been away pic.twitter.com/Bkmss4Ky9A
— кatrina anne ♛ (@kfer_) July 18, 2017
When you print out memes to send your boyfriend because he's at boot camp 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/e8cB3Txoqg
— Courtney (@CourtneyBeriau) June 29, 2017
While this is undoubtedly a heartwarming example of how the internet and memes really do bring people together in ways we often forget, it is difficult to not notice that many of the memes shared are decidedly Normie. Our advice: keep it up, great people of online, but send some Loss edits why don't you?
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zzuxon
Holy crap, I legitimately did this kind of thing when my cousin was in boot camp like 3 years ago.
AbradolfLincler
As someone who laughs at GTKRWN, I find this hilarious
Hot Sauce
When the drill sargeant finds your meme stash
nabusco
You realize that we are mailing memes.
We are using "old" tech to spread memes. Goddamn Revengeance was right memes are ourselves.
Cordelius
Technically speaking, Memes are in fact a huge influence to human civilization. Ever since the days of Rome, humans have been making memes. Hell the oldest meme ever known is the Sator Square which dates back to 1500 years ago.
And let's not forget Killroy. The first 'modern' meme that dates back to World War 2.
And these memes spread by merely existing on walls. Memes are the one lasting entity that humanity will never rid itself of. And all of them were spread through "old" means.
Memes are our legacy.
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Mah_Buddy_Keith
Back in Cold Lake, Alberta, we weren't sent memes by our friends back home. We had to make our own memes! For example, there was this one asshole 2Lt. that NOBODY LIKED and he was posing for a picture for the news or some shit, so we went to town on that picture.
SALUTE TO ME! I HAVE A QUEEN'S COMMISSION
TO TEACH KIDS IN A MILITARY BASE
Good times… You kids today have it too easy!
Juicydeath1025
"… but send some Loss edits why don’t you?"
BraveSirJimOfLawl
"Private what were you sent in this package"
"Memes, Drill Sargent"
And then the entire platoon ran laps for half an hour
Abrax404
While the Platoon was out running, the Sargent was in the Private's bunk reading the dank memes… Knowing he could never reveal this secret.
include<cheezburger>
"Memes, eh? Maybe we could weaponize these…"
And World War 3 was fought not with rifles, bombs, tanks, sticks, stones, words…
It was fought with MEMES.
werternut
War has changed.
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