Not Excellence in Shitlording..the US Cybercommand Meme war.

[AnimalNoodles]

US Cybercommand creates lame meme. Meme by committee.

The Pentagon is bad at making memes, but it still tries. On October 29, 2020, U.S. Cyber Command’s Cyber National Mission Force—a DoD team that “ensures commanders can maintain the freedom to operate in the cyber domain”— posted a picture of a Soviet bear dropping a Halloween candy bucket full of malware. Candy labeled with words like “X-Agent,” “XTunnel,” and “ComRat” flew from the poor bear's candy basket. The tweet got 364 likes and was retweeted 190 times. Thanks to a Freedom of Information Act Request filed by Runa Sandvik, a senior advisor for Norway’s Armed Force Cyber Defense, we have a 23 page report detailing Cyber Command’s creation of the image.

Read the Pentagon’s 20-Page Report on Its Own Meme

According to internal Pentagon communications, it took U.S. Cyber Command 22 days to finalize and post the meme.

www.vice.com

 

[LordsFire]

You know, if they wanted PR meme posting, they could literally offer any number of 4channers minimum wage to make pro-America memes and shitposts. Hire ten of them, assign one competent senior NCO to ride herd on them, and you'll have what you want.

 

[Battlegrinder]

I genuinely do not understand what this is trying to say. There's a bear in a Russian hat and spy trenchcoat, and he's got a Halloween bucket full of candy viruses? Why is the candy viruses? That's his candy that he got from trick or treating (because he's running around outside, he's obviously going door to door, not sitting in his den handing out candy), that implies that other people are maliciously hacking the Russians, and they accidentally dropped the viruses, meaning.....what? They got hacked, but got rid of the maleware by accident when Ivan spilled a bunch of vodka on the server rack?


Ironically, the DoD is much better at memeing when they're not trying to, such as that time the memetically evil intelligence community released a mission patch for a spy sat launch thst was jut a little bit too on brand:

 

[Cherico]

You know, if they wanted PR meme posting, they could literally offer any number of 4channers minimum wage to make pro-America memes and shitposts. Hire ten of them, assign one competent senior NCO to ride herd on them, and you'll have what you want.

its not possible to havve effective memes that wont offend the wokies.

 

[Captain X]

What's really hilarious is seeing a rag like Vice report on someone else being inept at meme-making.

 

[Clanner Moment]

This is bizarre and the end product reeks of boomer. They should just copy the 50 cent army model instead of posting "official DoD certified memes". 22 days of back and forth that could be spent developing actual responses to hackers.

 

[PsihoKekec]

Soviet Union could make less crappy propaganda than this.

 

[Zachowon]

You know, if they wanted PR meme posting, they could literally offer any number of 4channers minimum wage to make pro-America memes and shitposts. Hire ten of them, assign one competent senior NCO to ride herd on them, and you'll have what you want.

Nit even.

Yakl don't understand but people memes are being made, good ones, pro anerican ones, all the time on the higher networks, we have a whole site you can use to make memes, and another to post them too.

So they literally have a source THEY HAVE READY ACCESS to that has better memes then what this is

 

[LordsFire]

Nit even.

Yakl don't understand but people memes are being made, good ones, pro anerican ones, all the time on the higher networks, we have a whole site you can use to make memes, and another to post them too.

So they literally have a source THEY HAVE READY ACCESS to that has better memes then what this is

So this is just the brass trying to 'hello fellow children' and mucking it up?

 

[Bear Ribs]

What's sad is this would have been quite easy to turn into a decent propaganda piece. You want a Halloween bear with virus candy? 'Kay. He's in his door with a big, twisted, evil grin wearing a Russian outfit. He's handing out candy marked as malware, and the kids he's handing them to are dressed up in the flags of the US and it's allies, or alternately as traditional symbols of their countries like Uncle Sam and John Bull.

Boom, now the message makes a bit of sense.

 

[Zachowon]

So this is just the brass trying to 'hello fellow children' and mucking it up?

Oh most definitely

 

[AnimalNoodles]

Soviet Union could make less crappy propaganda than this.

Its very telling how degraded we are that our big gay empire has no aesthetics that it will be remembered for.

 

[Zachowon]

Its very telling how degraded we are that our big gay empire has no aesthetics that it will be remembered for.

Or, it is just the boomers and Gen xers don't understand what real memes are and the lower enlisted were never asked to make a meme.

 

[Doomsought]

This isn't just boomer, this is someone reading about something in a book and thinking that makes them an expert.

 

[Captain X]

Or, it is just the boomers and Gen xers don't understand what real memes are and the lower enlisted were never asked to make a meme.

Hey now, don't you be slandering us Gen Xers.

 

[BlackDragon98]

Geezzzz. . .
Bunch of idiots.

I bet the WW2 vets could probably create better memes than these woke idiots.
Oh wait, they already have!

 

[Zachowon]

Geezzzz. . .
Bunch of idiots.

I bet the WW2 vets could probably create better memes than these woke idiots.
Oh wait, they already have!

Did..did you not read what I said? The Junior enlisted and the people who work at NSA make better memes out of a LOT more limited ways and we do it usually in a single day under an hour.

 

[Panzerkraken]

It's pretty meh. Classic case of "We want it to look like this" instead of giving it over to the PSYOP people for analysis and development, or even having people in the graphics team make suggestions about what kind of product to put the malware disclosure on. Really par for the course, in my experience.