Okay, so I gotta share what I was up to lately. It started kinda simple, really. I kept seeing these Dodgers memes everywhere, especially after games. You know the ones. Some are funny, sure, but a lot of ’em felt kinda… the same? Like people were just phoning it in.
So I thought, hey, maybe I could try making some myself. Just for kicks, you know? See if I could come up with something different. It wasn’t like some big plan, just something to do.
Getting Started
First thing, I needed pictures. I spent a bit of time scrolling through game photos, looking for weird faces players were making, or funny moments on the field or in the dugout. Found a few decent ones. Then I needed a way to slap some text on them. Didn’t want anything fancy, so I just used one of those basic online meme maker things. The free ones you find everywhere.
Actually Making Them
This part was tougher than I figured. Coming up with captions that were actually funny, and not just repeating the same old jokes about rivals or whatever… yeah, harder than it looks. I tried a few ideas:
- Stuff about ballpark food.
- Jokes about specific players’ quirks.
- Trying to capture that feeling after a really dumb loss, or a surprise win.
Made maybe five or six decent ones? Or what I thought were decent, anyway. Spent probably an hour just messing around with text placement and trying different lines.
The ‘Sharing’ Part
Alright, so I had these things I made. What now? Wasn’t gonna blast them everywhere. Just sent a couple to my buddy, the one who’s also a big Dodgers fan. His reaction was kinda lukewarm, like “heh, yeah, that’s alright”. Sent another one to a group chat. Got one “LOL” and that was it. Kinda anticlimactic, you know?
It got me thinking. Maybe those samey memes I saw are popular because they’re simple and everyone gets the joke instantly. Maybe trying too hard to be clever just doesn’t work for this stuff. Or maybe my jokes just weren’t that good, haha. Probably that.
Funny thing is, messing with those memes reminded me of this time way back when I tried making custom baseball cards for my fantasy league using like, actual printed photos and glue. Total disaster. Spent a whole weekend on it, they looked terrible, and nobody cared. This meme thing felt kinda similar. A lot of effort for not much payoff, but hey, it killed an afternoon.
So yeah. That was my little adventure into the world of Dodgers memes. Didn’t exactly revolutionize internet comedy or anything. Mostly just proved it’s easier to scroll past ’em than make ’em. Back to just watching the games, I guess.
