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I think it's hard to just handwave and say "meme bad". These are some of the people I've come across with it:
First the easy one, edgelords online want to rile people up. I personally don't care, engaging them at all is just encouraging them. There are worse things to make memes about IMO, this is not one of them to get riled up over.
Second, people who genuinely don't care about this and think it's ridiculous the media covered it so much. I'm half in this boat, there are way more newsworthy things to cover than 5 people drowning in a custom made sub on a mission that they literally signed away their life to do. However,
Third, people who see this as a tragedy. The other half of me is here, at least one of the people genuinely wanted to see the Titanic. Which, maybe it's hard for us to understand the price tag, but if you had a dream of seeing it since you were a child, wanted nothing more than to see it, and were offered it, would you? And if not, if someone offered you a trip to see what you wanted to more than anything else in the world, would you want to? Go step on the moon? It's like if someone offered you the ability to literally go to a fictional place, then that 250k doesn't seem so much, if that was your once in a lifetime must do once and exactly once, if you saved up for 20 years. Those are the people I mourn.
Fourth, and I think this is a small group, people who are legit sad but treat humor as a coping mechanism. I think a lot of people forget about them, they aren't trying to make situations like this into something controversial, they just cope differently, and that's okay.
Fifth, people who are sad for the pilot, think the CEO got what was coming to him, and think the loss of three ultra wealthy people isn't actually a loss.
Rich people fucked with the environment and the environment got their revenge
I find myself making fun of the engineering, but I think it's a defense mechanism. I've had a pretty strong interest in the Titanic since I was a kid, and if I were offered the opportunity to see it, I think I'd be more likely to go. And it's scary to think I'd end up on a vessel that wasn't designed to do the thing it advertised it can.
How much did the people who went actually know about the sub they were on? How common is it to sign a waiver about dying to go on a commercial sub?
It's easy to laugh with hindsight, but it's scary to think what could have happened if I were in the position to choose to go.
Well put comment :)
I'm not trying to say that the memes are bad, but I have come across some memes that literally wish some rich people to die and others that cross the line. I fully understand that people don't maybe have sympathy for those who lost their lives, and I get it. I'm not here trying to defend rich people, but wishin for anyone to die or making fun of anyone's loss of life, regarding their background, isn't morally right anymore. Most of memes aren't that harmful but some of them are in the gray. Thanks for your opinion :)