They targeted memers.

Memers.

We’re a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the stupidest, most mentally demeaning photo-shops. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital karma saying we did.

We’ll punish ourselves memeing things others would consider unfunny, because we think it’s fun.

We’ll spend most if not all of our free time memeing the formats of established characters and celbrities, all to draw out a single extra point of karma per second.

Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through reddit, all day, the same reposts over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know every little detail such that some have attained such memer nirvana that they can literally make these memes blindfolded.

Do these people have any idea how many keyboards have been smashed, CPUs over heated, GIMP and PAINT destroyed in frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?

These EU politicians honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We’re already building a new one without them. They take our Fair Use? Memers aren’t shy about throwing their VPNs else where, or even making the sites our selves. They think calling us unfunny, manbabby, Prequel memers is going to change us? We’ve been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a youtube account. They picked a fight against a group that’s already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they’ve threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can’t is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.

Memers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You’re not special, you’re not original, you’re not the first; this is just another pasta fight.