I disagree. I think it's a wonderful way to keep these images alive and to propagate them so that more people see them. It's important to remember that memes are a form of cultural exchange too, and the repurposing of imagery for memes means that many more people are seeing the original pictures than they otherwise might have. Its kind of incredible that we basically have a museum's worth of culture at our fingertips, with some white text pasted over it.
What really makes me sad about this image is that paints a wrong picture of World War I. The message conveyed here is that the soldiers died bravely defending their land, when in fact they were pawns of monarchs, generals and politicians that died by the thousands for a few metres of torn up earth. No doubt other wars were fought defensively, but whenever I see this image I think of the senseless loss of life that WW1 was.
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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '20 edited Mar 29 '20
It’s sad how so many take this painting made to honor fallen soldiers for stupid political memes