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PaperclipPerfector  1d ago (text post)   1704 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for January 23, 2026

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Sure. But bear in mind: this whole Amelia started a couple of weeks ago, and there are already videos of her quoting poetry at length that users of this board are calling moving. I'm sure the first draft of Columbia looked a little rough around the edges (and not a little racist against Native Americans) too.

...that might just be because I'm a sucker for Shakespeare.

I do think that the median Amelia meme is garbage, and many of them are being pushed by obvious political junkies or grifters. Something like this is utterly worthless, and obviously made by an American anyway. And that account is trying to sell a memecoin!

My realistic prediction is that in a week or two nobody will remember Amelia. I'm just silly and easily manipulable enough to enjoy a day or two of patriotic British memes.

My favourite Amelia meme so far, actually, is Amelia sharing fun British Empire facts. I wasn't familiar with James Prinsep before I read that post, but it is true, and Prinsep is a genuinely interesting and impressive person. I would prefer more content like that to, well, MAGA-brained Americans LARPing as Brits.

If that video was the median Amelia meme I would've said something different!

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