What's buzzing hive!
In order to continue procrastinating my mountain posts, I keep getting lost in all these other fun engagement posts going around the Hive platform. I have been thinking for a bit on what would be a fun way to bring a new twists to our favorite week-end topics. I made my first meme tonight after a clown conversation with one of my Hive favorites for dark humor, 
What if there was a way to tastefully share some lazy creative fun without spamming the blockchain. Eureka! A meme contest! We can at least keep it all contained into one weird post. My contests are never successful at all, I have come to the conclusion I'm not that fun (Don't worry, deep down I already knew that!) but like the stubborn ox that I am , I will keep trying. Based on this week's response (and if it doesn't get downvoted for being meme's)...lets call this an experiment and see if I will keep it going in the future...I might be wishy-washy and change the photo topic week over week as well.
What are the rules?
Generate a Hive or a stab at steem meme and post in the comments with a few words of what inspired you to create it. It has to be your own, although I do understand we might think similarly and not keep track of every meme ever published, just make an effort to be legit.
Look at other memes in the comments (if any🤣) and engage, if you see one that inspired another great lazy creation, feel free to post it below their comment and let it roll downhill!
Invite your friends to join, not a rule but the more the merrier.
Upvote this post, again not a rule but the prize is dependent on the liquid portion of post payout, every .001 counts!
Have fun
Prize pool?
Well as mentioned above, the liquid portion of this post will be awarded to the winner or winners at post payout, I'm undecided yet...Gunna keep y'all on your toes for now. You have until then to get meming. More than one can be entered per user just don't get spammy about it.
UPDATE
Tips to newcomers on Hive
If you are a newbie, entering various contest around the blockchain is a great way to meet new friends and begin building an audience to read your post. Also a great way to engage and bust out of your shell and be yourself, in other words, get comfortable with the community and find your groove around this confusing place. (Don't worry, it's not that bad once you learn.) We might take a while to warm up to you but we don't bite...hard...well sometimes...we are still in training. On top of new friends, you have the chance to earn up-votes and prize moneys to help build your stake to reward other users with for as long as you wish along with getting more bandwidth to post more freely as long as you keep it powered up.
Alright, lets get meming friends...Of course I have to participate in the fun too so I churned a few to get the ball rolling! Of course I like to laugh at real life situations so don't take offense but we have been thru so much on the platform in the last year or so and I figured I would do a bit of a meme history lesson to recap for those who may have missed some action...Given the numbers I'm doubtful but just in case. Maybe it can turn into a hive documentary someday.
This one time (at band camp...I am required by social law to say that) we were all hanging out and ripping each other apart in flag wars on a terrain full of burning potatoes and a sea of spam and angry dramatic spampirates uttering threats to downvote everyone with a meaningless downvote as revenge. Then came this guy.
And there it was, a sweetheart deal was made behind the community's back. For a while, we were none the wisest but then strange messages from the dude with the nice hair we do not mention and a special alliance, made it sound like a palatable jelly donut. The community was smart and cut it open first and discovered it was just a sugarcoated turd...no way there was free donuts for everyone nor were we going to the moon anytime soon! Before we were able to throw him in the pit, he disappeared back under whatever rock he crawled out of.
Then the other shady dude started tweeting incompressible tweets, while we figured out if it was language barriers? a little slow? lied to? Just bought something cause it looked cool? (it really didn't). Either way, everyone was losing their minds trying to communicate and figure out WTF is going on and what we should do next.
After the installation of sock puppet witnesses with the help of shady exchanges, our dreams of decentralization came crashing down on our heads like a ton of bricks. Deep down we always knew it was a vulnerable spot but had too much blind trust believing everything would be cupcakes, trolls and glittery unicorn farts until the end of times...boy were we wrong but out of nowhere, we put our differences aside and somehow managed to topple the puppet government for a while.
Naturally, our egos got deflated when we lost our EMA match with the sun and we all got burned real bad, some worse than others given the nature of the blood bath. Like a pack of wolves that just lost their battle for territory, a new chain was formed...what shall we call this one....hummm...Hive...I like that. And just like that, most of the community moved over and started fresh, another chance at our ideals. Maybe we'll get it right this time. After all, we all survived something pretty traumatic, we need time to lick our wounds before the crypto drama begins again.
Now here we sit, paving our way into the future, looking back, I'm glad we did what we did even if it was controversial at the time and I think we will be better off for it. It's scary but I have faith in us. For now we get to sit back...
And that brings us to today and all the major social media hunt and wrangling all offensive to Karen content and sending them to TWITMO, losing their chanel or fan base in an instead, leaving their endeavors and their dreams in shambles. We knew of this long ago, like a class act with our tin foil top hat, we saw this coming, it's why we are here, to be free. To show there is a better way to be, liberate all the hijacked data for us to monetize for ourselves instead of a part robot pasty nerd hiding in an office somewhere away from the virtual pitchforks to of the lost souls in censorship limbo.
Meanwhile on hive we wait for them to show up...
Who know what the future holds but lets finish 2020 with no regrets and look forward to 2021 and hope we continue to progress individually and collectively.
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Alright, that is it, meme away peeps, make me laugh, create a story, spin it however just have fun with it! The memes that create the most engagement will have brownie points towards the prize pool. Better get meming.
Here are some other great engagement contest currently hot on Hive:
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