Choose Wisely / A Republican vote supports the selling off the post office, MORE cuts to Social Security and raising the age, More division between friends and family, More uncontrolled spending, more money in the pocket of BIG CORP. It's time to STOP THIS CRAZINESS!
A Blank Black post.
Someone has already written the quote, the political rant or the "real women" lecture. Then the post sits there in white text on a dark navy square, waiting for a picture it was never going to get. You open a template to make a joke and there is nothing to work with. Plain colour, no face, no scene. So you type the whole argument out yourself, in capitals, and hit post. A relative shares a wall of text about what a real man does, a real woman does, a real patriot does. Nobody asked, nobody can find the source, and it still collects four hundred shares before lunch. Some people reach for a blank canvas because the idea is the only thing they have. Others reach for it because they have a quote, a grudge and a lot of line breaks. Sometimes the same person manages both before the kettle boils. **Why it caught on:** the picture is a plain dark navy square with no subject at all, and on Meme Generator it became the default home for posts that are only words: quotes, rants, one-line gags and the odd "Black Sea" pun. It spread because it asks for nothing, with no template to learn and no face to match, so anyone with a thought and a keyboard could use it.