Meme Analysis
This meme is one of many similar memes that circulated this time last year and in early 2024, poking fun at the fact that Taylor Swift reportedly takes a private jet for flights that are seemingly useless or pointless. This became public knowledge when the news reported that she sued an individual who was tracking her flights. The main source of humor for the meme is that Taylor Swift is a very famous celebrity contributing to high levels of CO2 emissions due to her private flights. In response, many variations of this meme began circulating, usually with an image of some sort of aircraft and text describing Taylor Swift taking a jet to do some sort of menial task like going to Starbucks or taking out the trash. This particular meme is more of a cartoon/drawing style, which is part of what makes its rhetoric stand out. Rather than finding an image and placing text over it, someone had to take time to draw the meme. The image itself is more impactful than the usual memes, consideri...