Moby Has Made The World’s Most Confusing ‘Game Of Thrones’ Meme
Can someone please explain this meme to us?
As Game Of Thrones fans continue to digest the show’s long-anticipated, long-feared series finale, a series of hot takes, power rankings and memes are helping them sort through the mess of Westeros. Judging by Moby’s seemingly self-made meme, he has a long way to go before he feels alright.
— Warning: Spoilers Are Ahead —
Where some fans were left so unsatisfied by the show’s conclusion that they’ve taken to imagining their own ending, or revisiting the episode with to fine-comb for every single possible important moment they might’ve missed, Moby — DJ, internet user — has made a meme, which he’s posted to Twitter.
It seems to poke fun (?) at the show’s decision to depict Westeros as a place of potential peace, rather than a land of never-ending bloodshed, as you know, we kind of know and love/hate it to be. Here is the meme.
— moby XⓋX (@thelittleidiot) May 20, 2019
As the good folks at Spin pointed out, this meme is… not good. First up: the format is not recognisable, and therefore doesn’t play with our memetic expectations in any way. Technically, it is not a meme.
Secondly, the pictures. Rather than use a screenshot from the show, Moby’s elected for some generic Deviantart-looking battle scene; but it’s the second shot, comparing Westeros to Farmville, that has us scratching our heads.
What is this saying? That Game Of Thrones never lived up to its promise of prestige television — that, at the end of it, is was clearly just mindless entertainment for the masses, used to generate cash a la the ridiculously lucrative Farmville?
Or, alternatively, is it a reflection on how the deaths of fictional characters are devoid of meaning — the equivalent of virtual bunnies — when they are written with little consistency or care?
Does Moby play Farmville? Did Moby even watch Game Of Thrones, or was this a last-ditch attempt to connect to the hive-mind, to feel a part of a cultural moment? We may never know.
Moby recently released Then It All Fell Apart, his second memoir, which includes a story about rubbing his genitals on a pre-presidential Donald Trump as part of a dare.