Proposal for a new meme
Recently, I have noticed an uptick in discussion of the upcoming “Grand Theft Auto VI” video game, particularly in a humorous manner. Every time I visit social media platforms on the Internet, users make jokes about the various goods and services released onto the consumer market (or notable occurrences) before the release of Grand Theft Auto VI. This is usually stated quite casually. For example, one may say “we really having WW3 before GTA6” or “we got aliens before GTA6.” I do not understand the value of these so-called jokes. Simply stating that one event happened before another is not funny, not to mention the egregious grammatical errors present in most examples of the meme format. Nobody would laugh if I left a comment online composed of the phrase “we really having 3 pm before 4 pm.”
This brings me to my proposal. My heart is in the work, and I trust that yours is too. (I hope you understand my joke; it’s quite clever of me to reference Carnegie Mellon University so subtly.) As a CMU student, one concept that I spend ample time thinking about is my Quality Point Average, or QPA. This is much more relevant to our lives than the sixth installment in the Grand Theft Auto franchise. Also, as incredibly intelligent students on par with or smarter than those at MIT and Stanford, we know how to use correct English grammar. So, let us reflect these facts with our “meme culture.” Rather than saying “we got Radiohead touring again before GTA6,” you can say jokes like “CMU commissioned the construction of the Jared L. Cohon University Center before QPA 6.” You see, it is still merely stating a true fact, but in a more sophisticated fashion. Not only does it bring our minds back to the university we all attend, but as the brighter among you may recognize, one cannot possess a QPA of 6, making it incredibly humorous. From now on, I urge you: if you see a comment about Grand Theft Auto VI written in this manner, remind the author of their place in this world. Reply to “ratio” them with an even funnier Quality Point Average joke, exerting your dominance as an intellectual student of Carnegie Mellon University.