So this is apparently a thing that people on the internet are doing: Stocking. What people are doing is quite simple, actually -- they're taking stock photos, which we all know to be one of the more ridiculous aspects of modern life on Earth, and mimicking/mocking them. I'm never not cool with people mocking stock photos, BTW. The world needs more of this sort of thing, in fact.
However, I do take issue with one aspect of this meme: the Tumblr that kicked it all off is called "Stocking Is The New Planking." Can we just stop calling new photography-related meme "the new planking?" First there was cone-ing, then owling, then horsemaning -- just let memes be memes and not the new whatever.
Now, check out this stocking gallery ... it's the new sex...
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No, just no. How do we stop this before it goes to far?? Aren’t the original shitty stock photos bad enough?? Now we have to have double the shitty photos, with half the production value?? What’s next, reshoots of commercials?? Doubling up on Billboards?? It almost seems like the entire internet is being controlled by X-zibit. “Hey dawg, I heard you like pictures, so we took your picture like you were the people in the picture you like.” WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENEING TO SOCIETY?!?!?!?!?!
This is really really stupid.
I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.
I think its hilarious and ya’ll take yourselves too seriously. Fuggin internet critic losers.
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