Created February 18 2017
I had an idea stuck in my head that I couldn’t get out. A matter of perspective I wanted to bring to the world on an everyday subject matter:
I wanted to make people see animal memes as a natural extension of our history with them. Being the only intelligent creatures on the planet is lonely, so animals are best served as our doofy supportive friends we can make fun of in good jest. Animals really have always been a core part of the lens through which we view the world; in the olden days that manifested as legend; these days it manifests as Pixar movies. And memes.
In the interest of expressing that idea clearly, I cut out a lot of extraneous fat. I originally wanted to show the evolution of animal memes in a more detailed timeline.
- Longcat
- Ceiling Cat
- Keyboard Cat
- Nyan Cat
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1Y73sPHKxw
- ORLY
- lolcats
- Philosoraptor
- Advice Animals
- More damn advice animals
- Grumpy cat
- Doge
- Doggo did a big frighten
But I favored a triumphant conclusion over drawing it out.
I was somewhat intimidated by the idea of actually writing a script with some semblance of structure, so I sat on the idea for a good six months before I sat down and wrote the script in a single hour, back in August. Then I waited another month before sitting down and editing the video in a single evening. Moral of the story is, if I just sat down and put my mind to stuff more often, I could probably crank it out. But taking long breaks to let ideas turn over in my head is the Brettimaeus standard! :/
Turned out fantastic, and I’m proud to have edited the whole thing in Premiere!
Script here: https://brettimaeus-writes.tumblr.com/post/165199064094/animal-meme-history-lesson