Analysis of a Meme- Luis Guerrero

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 On a street in an unknown city, one of the most memorable photos has gone viral. After his sister took a photo of him, she realized that she had involuntarily recreated the mythical meme where the boy's face is a whole picture.

The neck of the male of our species has a very "hard life", especially when it is crossed with someone sexually attractive. At that moment the darkest part of our brain sends all kinds of desperate signals to the already up to the nose neck muscles to make the head spin. 

This macho attitude is what the photographer Antonio Guillem wanted to reflect in the image that, without him knowing, became the already mythical meme of the distracted boyfriend: a couple crosses paths with a good-looking girl and the man, instead of keeping his attention on his beloved, sees how her neck makes movements that are in principle impossible for the human anatomy.

A meme that has had unquestionable success in reflecting the views of the human of the 21st century...

In this case, this photo has been used as a pure meme and has not reached a greater impact than making jokes about a photo that tries to represent a reality that obviously cannot be generalized to all men. But it is an object to make memes to represent tastes of society in terms of many different topics that can go from politics to economy or simply many people use it to represent tastes of everyday life such as food, celebrations, etc. 


WORKS CITED: 

https://www.wired.com/story/distracted-boyfriend-meme-photographer-interview/


Comments

  1. RosanaOctober 19, 2020 at 7:55 PM

    Thank you for your contribution Luis, this is indeed a classic meme and a great example of how one photo can lead to such a large repertoire of jokes and interpretations. One of your classmates, also worked with this meme. How do you think this meme represents some of the ideas in Bratich's article?

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