Memes will sometimes mock corporations for changing their logo to rainbow for Pride Month while ignoring LGBTQ rights the rest of the year. June is Pride Month: the time of year when the LGBTQ community comes together to proudly and collectively make memes.
Anti-corporate pride memesĪnti-corporate memes typically target corporations who exploit Pride Month for their personal gain and profit, a phenomenon known as rainbow capitalism or gay capitalism.Ĭritics and meme artists often accuse corporations of demonstrating superficial support for the queer and trans community. Here are the best Pride memes from 2019 in both categories. The format gained popularity as a template for memes on Instagram and Facebook in late 2019, with memes replacing the art on the shirt with something else. If I were to classify Pride memes scientifically, I'd say that they tend to fall into one of two categories: anti-corporate Pride memes, which mock corporations for their participation in Pride Month, or extremely niche pro-gay Pride memes, which are far more affirming and serve the LGBTQ community directly. Pride Month becomes a bigger celebration every year, and this week. SEE ALSO: Memes of Meryl Streep's 'Big Little Lies' scream are so good you'll scream Andrew Hutchinson Content and Social Media Manager. Thankfully, this year's Pride Month brought us particularly good, dark, sarcastic, and sometimes even empowering meme content.