How To Describe The ChatGPT Discourse Using Wojaks

In this post, I’ll analyze one big meme.

This meme was posted by @sterlingcrispin to Twitter on March 26th, 2023. I hope picking a meme and really breaking it down by looking at each piece, as if it were a poem or painting, is a valuable exercise — and not just me killing the joke by explaining it too much.

Frame: Where Does Discourse Happen?

Crispin posted this meme as a response to the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT4 (which came out on March 14th, 2023) and the nauseating amount of Twitter discourse about it in the weeks that followed.