By BILLY JOE JESSUP
It’s been three days since the wedding of Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, giving me plenty of time to find royal Instagram and Twitter memes you might have missed.
This piece of journalism features 10 of them.
Meghan’s CVS wedding dress
https://www.instagram.com/p/BjEKHMqh3AT/?tagged=royalweddingmemes
Doria Ragland, Meghan’s mother, and Prince Charles, Harry’s father
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bi-lehyhZze/?tagged=britishmemes
Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip and Prince William
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bi_hw6YAFMH/?tagged=royalweddingmemes
Chelsy Davy, lawyer, jewelry designer and Harry’s former girl
#RoyalWedding #memes #royalweddingmemes pic.twitter.com/DLxZ9xtKDP
— Faceknob (@TheFaceknob) May 20, 2018
Pippa Middleton, sister of Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge who married Prince William in 2011
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bi9vVQRgRz2/?tagged=royalweddingmemes
“THANKS FOR RIPPING ME OFF, LADY KITTY SPENCER”
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bi_si2sDO7Z/?tagged=kittyspencer
Andre Braugher on Bishop Michael Curry’s sermon
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bi-QibslNqC/?tagged=royalweddingmemes
The eyes have it among wedding guests!
https://www.instagram.com/p/BjDfeOElylq/?tagged=royalwedding2018
Cord and Tish
One small kiss for man, one giant kiss for mankind!! #CordandTish pic.twitter.com/ci4T9inlBg
— Tish Cattigan (@TishCattigan) May 19, 2018
Crown Royal meets Royal Crown
https://www.instagram.com/p/BjAhxHJBpai/?tagged=royalmemes
I enjoyed coming up with a list of 10 on my own, but I have a problem with it. I want mine to be unique and it’s not.
Everybody else is doing their own lists based on what they see on the meme machines, the clever content creators, and this is becoming a lazy and nearly cliched form of 21st-century communication.
It doesn’t matter to the digital gods and goddesses sending live copy to the web and optimizing the engines to super speed. Readers will hit the links for Markle Sparkle and the numbers will climb the charts on newsroom TV monitors.
Big-time media have got game and they’re beating the bloggers.
Time magazine: “Only Meghan could give us the biggest meme of the 2018 royal wedding”
Harper’s Bazaar: “The Best Memes from the Royal Wedding”
Cosmopolitan: “Megan Markle’s Royal Wedding Meme Goes Viral”
Elle: “The 26 Best Best Tweets and Memes From the Royal Wedding”
US Weekly: “Excited Pageboy, Pippa Middleton’s Iced Tea Dress Comparison and More Royal Wedding Memes”
Google has pages and pages of this stuff, and I know my post can’t compete with all the others.
This might be the last time I do this kind of post.
I love the meme machines, but I hate the meme aggregators.
