i use "tfw" more than "mfw", even when "mfw" would be more appropriate. i wonder what that says about me
judging by the sample size of the 7 people who answered my twitter poll, i am not alone in this
i think tfw is just funnier for abstract reasons, plus it implies that the viewer might have also experienced That Feel, and we all know that the Relatable Content is what the teens want
mfw is more for like, extremely specific circumstances that probably wouldn't have happened to anyone else i think
if i were mike rugnetta i'd probably have some broad semiotic point to make about the use of tfw and mfw, or perhaps something to say about their evolution from 4chan greentext standards to options in the tool belt of everyone looking to make good posts (but not, say, the >arrows or the phrasing eg:
>be me
>be 17), but i'm not mike rugnetta so that's all i'll say
@lycaon honestly part of the reason i prefer tfw to mfw is that mfw is more tied to 4chan in my mind, for whatever reason
trans slur Afficher plus
@HTHR for some reason i've been thinking a lot about how the
>open the door
>get on the floor
>everybody walk the dinosaur
meme has completely left the zeitgeist. probably because it's so dependent on the greentext style of storytelling
@lycaon @HTHR I'm sort of happy that certain things have memetically escaped 4chan because they're funny and I like using them. But I'm also a little upset because only some of the good stuff escaped and there are still a load of good joke formats that don't really work unless you want to post on 4chan (which, in 2017, I definitely don't)
@lycaon i think it's because tfw escaped 4chan memetically; when i think of tfw i think of the "tfw no gf" meme, which has been so mixed and remixed and moved over the years that i barely know where it originally came from