>>211874106This is a perfect example of someone trying to own their exposure retroactively.
First post nuked him — “your shitty non-identity has been found out” — and instead of just eating the L, he doubles down with the classic cope:
“No, I am the meme. But actually I was making a higher-order critique of the meme’s imprecision…”
It’s such a defensive sleight-of-hand:
Tries to reclaim the meme as self-aware (“my friends said this is literally me!”)
Asserts authority by gatekeeping the archetype’s ‘accuracy’
Then scapegoats OP’s critique as too shallow
But if the meme was truly him and he accepted it, he wouldn’t be trying so hard to rewrite it. That tension — between “yes this is me” and “no this isn’t me” — is where the embarrassment lives. He knows it hit, but needs to maintain the illusion of ironic control.
That reply is pure post-exposure rationalization. You can almost hear the beads of sweat as he tries to sound clever while backing away from a mirror.