Memes on the Internet: my friend Connie is completely out of the Internet

Berlin pelvis | Light hair, red loop, striped T -shirt: this is how we know Connie, the brave figure of the Publishing House of Karlsen Publishing House. It is present in German children’s rooms for more than 30 years. Connie should go to the doctor for more than 100 floors, receives a little brother, goes on vacation with his parents or comes to kindergarten. Connie is a poster child of the German middle class: white, privileged, hetero. Mother Annett is a doctor, but it’s better not to work. Father, Jurgen, without much effort finances several holidays a year, Connie is allowed to ride, play on the instrument, and dance ballet.

Carlsen Verlag tried to grow them: in a series of books “Conni15”, Kornil Klawitter (that is, it is called with a full name), think about boys, interested in fashion, perhaps experience a little mental pain. But instead of growing, interested in feminism and class struggle, Connie remains in all books, films and radio plays for about 15 years.

But he does nothing, because your growing up has won the Internet for several years. Since the Pandemia, Conni-Memes have been circulating on social networks. For this, the image is changed, changes using AI or new inscription. Here Connie represents more radical positions, funny, daring and solidarity. Connie does not talk with Faschos: “Connie becomes a comrade”, “Connie does not annoy AFD.” It works so well because almost everyone knows Connie in this country.

This is not an insignificant question that Connie is currently celebrated in the left circles. Mems for a long time were political weapons, especially in the right networks. Figures such as Pepe, frog (drawn frog) were stolen there, its creator Matt Furi is still fighting against this. Nevertheless, the better is that Connie now pursues the network as the left.

But Carlsen Verlag does not want to let his daughter go. Instead of happy that Connis Late Emancipation, the publisher recently published FAQ. They say that the spread of memes violated the copyrights that they want to take measures against use. You do not want to sue anyone for anyone in general, but you would allow the networks to be cleaned in inhuman, racist, violent or pornographic memes. First of all. But at the same time, Carlsen emphasizes that usually there is no approval for Conni-Memes.

She has potential

It is a pity, because Connie would have potential as influential. This brings a slightly more beautiful chaos to a global children’s room called the Internet. She comes out of her bourgeois book with pictures, solved with everyone who has no riding lessons or married parents, and can also become more representative for all children.

The Internet reacted to the publisher’s announcement, how the Internet reacts: with an even larger number of memes, even more Connie. On Linkedin, Carlsen tried to save all this with his meme: Connie is standing next to his hands and a hangover, including: “Connie should clarify something.” The publisher said that it was incorrectly understood that only extreme cases should be removed. But: that which is once on the Internet remains there. Remove does not work. It is a pity that your publisher does not understand this. Connie cannot just put on a shelf. Connie grew up. And she no longer comes home.

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