I am hesitant to say to the Internet, "tell me what I should know about these anime franchises to better contextualize these memes" — I can already see the lore-dumps in my mind's eye — but as someone quite out of those loops, if there are interesting observations to be made about the specific juxtapositions, I am all ears... :-)
Mostly, as I said over on Bluesky, it's because you featured some big franchises.
The only specific observation I'd make is Anya Forger (3rd image), who is a spy in a family of spies... and who I can easily see as mucking with something like the Demon Core. But as it's a pretty lightweight show she'd never come to any harm. <snips lore dump> :)
There are a few memes out there that reference SL-1. One made use of an image of an individual being impaled on a long rod(much like the tech that met the same fate at SL-1) and another that was a little more obscure which made use of a panoramic shot of the fenced in area of the site of the accident after it had been buried under rubble. There was yet another that used an image of the damaged reactor after debris had been removed but I'd have to say that none have that 'cute' quality about them that was mentioned above.
Sure, I'm not saying there couldn't be memes — there are memes for anything and everything — just that they aren't going to be viral in the way that the "Demon Core" memes can be. SL-1 is just much more obscure.
As an anime fan, the pictures you chose are pretty interesting with the franchises they come from.
But yeah, the whole phenomena is very weird and kind of disturbing.
I am hesitant to say to the Internet, "tell me what I should know about these anime franchises to better contextualize these memes" — I can already see the lore-dumps in my mind's eye — but as someone quite out of those loops, if there are interesting observations to be made about the specific juxtapositions, I am all ears... :-)
Mostly, as I said over on Bluesky, it's because you featured some big franchises.
The only specific observation I'd make is Anya Forger (3rd image), who is a spy in a family of spies... and who I can easily see as mucking with something like the Demon Core. But as it's a pretty lightweight show she'd never come to any harm. <snips lore dump> :)
There are a few memes out there that reference SL-1. One made use of an image of an individual being impaled on a long rod(much like the tech that met the same fate at SL-1) and another that was a little more obscure which made use of a panoramic shot of the fenced in area of the site of the accident after it had been buried under rubble. There was yet another that used an image of the damaged reactor after debris had been removed but I'd have to say that none have that 'cute' quality about them that was mentioned above.
Sure, I'm not saying there couldn't be memes — there are memes for anything and everything — just that they aren't going to be viral in the way that the "Demon Core" memes can be. SL-1 is just much more obscure.