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I dug through my hdd and for the life of my I could not find the ones I was thinking of ( maybe it is time to finally tag my stuff properly ).

I looked online and I was only able to find one example of what I was thinking of ( https://awwmemes.com/i/spreads-message-of-anti-capitalism-fr... ). The one I remember was equally silly along the lines of "hates banks, uses money = hypocrite".

I will keep digging, because I know what I am looking for and it is not ancient history. I should have it somewhere.

>>A4ET8a+(OP)
Those are extremely lazy and I don't understand how someone takes them seriously.

It's like saying:

"Kidnapped victim runs away by shooting the captor's knee...

with the captor's gun, hypocrite much?!"

>>A4ET8a+(OP)
Wait, are you saying this meme that you posted comes from the banks during the height of the Occupy movement? Or if not, how did their talking points / PR reach the undiscriminating masses and become this? I remember this meme, but always assumed it came from Apple-haters or unsophisticated Fox News types.

>>Darkne+Ns
I am not saying that I know for a fact that this particular meme was concocted by a PR firm, blessed by an internal department and rolled out on imgur, 9gag, 4chan and anywhere else it could find fertile ground. I do not have access to that kind of records. That said, by now it is publicly available knowledge that lobbying firms were proposing ways to handle OWS(1).

I do remember it popping up in a lot of places with anti-OWS message and I just found it interesting in terms of timing and how the subject was basically designed to be hated at the time. Like I said, it is this meme template. I can't find the one with exact wording, which is why it got my attention back then. It does not help that I don't remember the exact phrase.

I will add as a general note that memes are ridiculously easy to create and disseminate en masse. You can obviously create metric ton of variants and see what sticks best. To your point, they can be done Fox News types, Apple-haters, dog-lovers, apple pickers, you name it and tracking its origin can be genuinely hard.

1.https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2063843/Occupy-Wall...

>>ric2b+or
You would be surprised how much you of what you see around you, you internalize.

The message sticks with you. Look at me. It has been years now and I just remember the message despite not remembering the exact words.

Just for that reason alone I was surprised/grateful, I did not see that great a push from ad industry to use memes yet. There are clearly some thinly disguised ads, but the various communities tends to weed them out fast.

>>A4ET8a+UG
It's more likely that voluntarists/ancaps/libertarians made the meme than some PR firm, no?