Friday, November 7, 2025

Bad faith supplicating woke vocal fry and verbal uptick versus a normal good faith person

Another marvelous example of the extraordinary speed of the meme cycle.  Yesterday, Katherine Stoeffel of GQ conducted an interview with Sydney Sweeney.  It was a classic encounter of vocal fry/verbal uptick encounters normal voice, woke encounters based, supplicating ambush encounters clear convictions.  It has immediately gone viral with the right celebrating Sweeney's calm and confident dismissal of the predicates.  

Stoeffel spends three minutes, with vocal fry and upspeak, trying to get Sweeney to admit to being a racist and Sweeney swats it all away, at each round making Stoeffel look smaller and more desperate.

I was most struck by the transition of Sweeney's facial expression, changing from a polite and cheerful cooperative demeanor when the questions were neutral to a disdainful disregard as the bad faith interviewing proceeded.  

But most notable of all, there is the speed of transition from interview to new meme form.  The interview went viral, there was some tentative permutations of how this might end up and then finally, within 24-hours there is the version which I suspect has legs for some months or years.  

In sequence of discovery.

Next iteration.


And the next permutation.

Getting close.
A little bit of a backslide.

Ah, here we go.  I suspect this will be the settled new meme template.


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