let’s talk faces.

what’s in a face? the lines of a lifetime; the window to an inner world.

I like looking at faces. I could never be autistic, I suppose.

I was watching a basketball game tonight — NBA, Lakers vs Magic; pretty good game — and I saw Luka Doncic make a face after missing a shot, and I thought “huh, that would be a funny meme”, and then I thought, “huh, memes are really just sort of like, bits and pieces of culture that where we all share the same experience, and then I thought, “huh, I’ve never seen a meme without a face…”

and that’s what I’m curious about now. I’ve never seen a meme without a face. have you? have you ever seen a faceless meme? before getting ahead of yourself, animal faces clearly count. they’re faces too, after all, expressive in their own way of internal worlds and workings.

I think this goes back to the above point about memes being methods of identify shared moments and emotions. Luka missed a shot and made a face; I too have missed shots, literally and figuratively, and made similar facial contortions. this is what memes were meant to do. they’re methods of tapping into the shared social experiences of people. they’re nodes for the collective unconscious.