Not just art. They were making memes.
Every strip has the same structure: Everett makes a statement of common decency, some random dude disagrees, then Everett physically assault the random dude.
This is literally a meme template, from the early 1900s.
Question is: will the meme evolve in a similar fashion that we see modern memes evolve? Or does the fact that it has a single author prevent this natural evolution?
![Everett cares about fire safety [Outbursts of Everett True, 1914]](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/2d19854a-26a8-484e-b2aa-86b459e8b737.jpeg){kind=link}
I am absolutely loving these for showing someone in the early 1900s was making art about how absolutely shitty people were.
On the downside it is clear that society has learned nothing.
Not just art. They were making memes. Every strip has the same structure: Everett makes a statement of common decency, some random dude disagrees, then Everett physically assault the random dude. This is literally a meme template, from the early 1900s.
Question is: will the meme evolve in a similar fashion that we see modern memes evolve? Or does the fact that it has a single author prevent this natural evolution?