Aidan Walker

all posts are the same thing, just a person shouting “will you please love me” into a void. then a few computers squirm at the sound like leaves when the wind blows

“Kirkification saved America from a civil war.” It’s a bold claim/hook, but in remembering those days after Charlie Kirk’s death, I can’t really argue against it.

#meme #digital #AI thanks @aidanwalker.bsky.social howtodothingswithmemes.substack.com/p/cuck-skibi...

"The media class continued to read X like a thermometer offering data about the climate of opinion when it was actually a probe taking the rectal temperature of the internet’s loneliest men." @aidanwalker.bsky.social 💯 howtodothingswithmemes.substack.com/p/shift-slop...

when they call me unc on tiktok in the comments section

People on here will post anything. "Rahm Emanuel is a plausible nominee for president." No he isn’t. That isn’t true.

locking in

the case for a slop tax!

upping my YouTube thumbnail game and cashing in on the Clavicular viral cycle during its last gasps www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jtB...

One point @aidanwalker.bsky.social made about why we ought to take the some of the dumbest shit ever seriously is because of the way that the right wing has fully surrendered itself to extremely online brain rot as part of its political project. prime example right here:

probably my favorite podcast appearance i’ve ever done on my least favorite topic i’ve ever researched

it goes without saying the kamala hq rebrand is hollow, hopeless, and a likely flop from an internet culture perspective

when will we as a society progress past the need for a yuval noah harari

really good piece by @aidanwalker.bsky.social on the "nihilism by default" embodied by influencers like clavicular and nick fuentes and consumed by younger zoomers who've never known anything other than an online, politically fucked world howtodothingswithmemes.substack.com/p/clavicular...

you can totally force him to back down. he’s a coward. for the past year, everyone’s been throwing their hands up going “there’s nothing we can do.” well, now we know you can support street protests, mutual aid networks, and direct pressure. fuck the midterms. this matters more.

I seriously hope some fbi investigating chats have an “are we the baddies?” moment Yeah guys guess what Entire tv/film genres exist about the elite craft and secrecy. People aspired to be part of the organization. Now you’re a Temu KGB Investigate internally and show up please

By @aidanwalker.bsky.social via @mattmuir.bsky.social . Doing the rounds, probably mostly among people who, like me, now cherish the lost innocence of a halcyon time before I knew his name. Also, JFC, he hits himself in the face with a hammer. /subtext is for cowards.gif etc.

I pray that what happened today does not become the new normal, but as it stands there’s nothing but the people who can keep that from happening

My new pamphlet “ON SKIBIDI: Cyborg Violence, Brainrot, and the Phenomenology of Digital Witness” coming to a handheld screen near you. Link in bio to the metalabel place where u can get pdf for $2.67

american canto is like joan didion but if she were kinda dumb

was this how y'all felt about obama? like for real... the feeling that we're in the story, rather than at its end or epilogue. people who look like me and friends I love fist-bumping, hugging, walking proud in the streets, all kinds. got me libbed out heavy x.com/ZohranKMamda...

Watch the full video with @aidanwalker.bsky.social in THE BACK ROOM. We talk Bill Maher, memes and more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnT0...

Did you catch his epic appearance recently on Real Time with Bill Maher? Writer, creator and internet culture researcher @aidanwalker.bsky.social's in THE BACK ROOM talking memes, Maher and more! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

@harpers.bsky.social a question

i am going to write a letter to the editor of Harper’s magazine about Gooning

last winter: eye of rah, bought a property in egypt, chopped chin this summer; eeffoc, adrian, barbershop haircut, etc. now: burger in vegas. i hazard the prediction that we’ll see new standard collage elements emerge to go with that burger clip, seems to be how these edit trends work

the last time i wrote about gooning — spring of 2024. On a rainy afternoon in richmond, VA visiting a friend. Was on a deadline to get an explainer for the term “gooncave” posted to know your meme dot com by 5:30 pm. remember eating chicken tikka masala later that night. core memory.

have consulted the group chat and it looks like i gotta write something about gooning because print media has gotten a piece of story very well, but the depths still demand to be plumbed

one cause of the bothsidesism we still see, even today, is the left isn’t really foreign to the center like the right is. when they get mild opposition from the left it hurts more because it’s in a language they understand, from the kind of people they respect, so it leaves a deeper impression

Episode 5 of The Mingle Projects starts RIGHT NOW, streaming live on the Michael Smerconish YouTube Channel with Special Guest @aidanwalker.bsky.social . Tune in to watch 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGtLL3e7AHk

Watch the Trailer for The Mingle Project Episode 5: "Are The Kids Alright?" with special guest @aidanwalker.bsky.social Full episode streams Thursday Oct 23 at 8 PM ET, exclusively on the Michael Smerconish YouTube channel. Subscribe ➡️ https://loom.ly/QzHOoAg

the defining image of the early 21st century is an agent of the state pointing a gun at a person, and a citizen pointing a smartphone camera back at them we see this scene reenacted every day, around the world

it is all about the simple joys: herringbone sidewalks paved with brick, the smell of wood fire, the precisely-chosen typeface on an esoteric shitpost

Isaac Chotiner is an american hero

memory is a contest -- rambles about the difficulty of internet archival work and the deficiency of progress narratives to explain history open.substack.com/pub/howtodot...

Super proud of the team for pulling this together in just a few days. Always insightful to hear from @aidanwalker.bsky.social

we did a big deep dive with @aidanwalker.bsky.social explaining the meme references found on the bullet casings, the groyperfication of young people, and why this shooting was, ultimately, a shitpost: disruptive and incoherent www.kqed.org/news/1205620...

another take on if MrBeast is devil open.substack.com/pub/howtodot...

asking the important questions: open.substack.com/pub/howtodot...

finally, Abundance reviewed in the proper context www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

strangely charming to imagine these man-children fumbling about their lives, screenshotting the email draft with 30% battery on the smartphone and posting it to the official department of justice account -- the country being run by sad sack losers pbs.twimg.com/media/G0CltA...

This is the way I felt after watching a program called “bailing out baddies,” on instagram reels open.substack.com/pub/howtodot...

Does anybody have a good explanation for why congressional democrats arent on 14th street heckling the occupiers? I’m not angry so as much as just wanting to understand why