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“You Say You’re Anti-Capitalist…Yet You Earn a Living!”: Teenage Stepdad and the Memeification of Culture Jamming
March, Lucy
March, Lucy
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2022-05-27
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http://dx.doi.org/10.47761/494a02f6.7ebc00cd
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Teenage Stepdad is the social media pseudonym for a meme creator who makes satirical use of retro and nostalgic imagery to communicate anti-capitalist political messaging through his Instagram account. This piece explores how Teenage Stepdad uses the aesthetics of culture jamming to give his memes affective power, as well as how he navigates the tensions of using a commercial social media platform to share anti-capitalist and anti-consumerist memes. Particular attention is paid to the recent promotion of a new web series featuring Teenage Stepdad, “Seize the Memes,” and the ways in which the collaborative nature of Instagram can both promote and distract from the account’s explicit political calls to action.
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March, Lucy. 2022. “‘You Say You’re Anti-Capitalist…Yet You Earn a Living!’: Teenage Stepdad and the Memeification of Culture Jamming.” Edited by Byron Fong, Wade Keye, Jacob Carter, Catalina Segú, and Tierney Hamilton. InVisible Culture, no. 34 (May). https://doi.org/10.47761/494a02f6.7ebc00cd.
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