Levers

Entertaining project! You guys did a great job building on each other's work and furthering the overall piece. It's funny seeing where you guys ended up just 6 iterations after the beginning, and it was cool to see that process of development in your project. Also, well documented!

It was really cool seeing you guys build off of each other! I liked how your end result was completely different from the beginning. At the end, the result had no bearings to the original "pass me the aux" meme. I liked the creativity, and I think that you guys were successful in remixing each others memes

I wasn't previously familiar with this meme, which makes me think it's very new, very obscure, very dank, or some mix of the three. Though you really built off of the memes well to make a thematic progression! It evolved very naturally and smoothly. Very effective.

I really like your creativity! The third layer made me laugh so hard. It is interesting to turn some philosophical problem into a funny, spreadable meme. Good work!

I love me some trolley problems. Few current memes offer as much expressive creativity in use as the classic "do you pull the lever?" prompt since it has so many slightly tweakable elements. As such, you can see we ended up with a bunch of completely different yet mechanically similar volleys. In addition to that, you can see clearly how each person involved tackled a different angle. Dope execution.

This was really entertaining! I love how the ideas fed off each other and how, even though the context changes, a lot of the moral/ethical question remains (from the original trolley question). I loved the infusion of pop culture (Disney) because it accurately reflected how memes change on the internet in reality. It's oftentimes that a single phrase or slice of an image makes it through to internet fame; this really reflects that process.

I like how it leans into meme aesthetics and keeps it rough as a way of quickly producing - it feels like a meme you’d find on the internet and this is great. But it doesn’t feel like it really developed into a real conversation. For example, layer 4 pushes the thread into a new visual context but keeps the concept going, moving it forward. Layer 4 immediately switches back to the previous instead of really pushing into the new space. This was a real opportunity to riff and push into a new visual form instead it feels like a bit of a retreat and a missed opportunity to end up somewhere really unexpected at the end.

The reflections highlight some of the challenges you faced in reworking the concept so I think you’re aware of it, but it’s something to think about for future work.