Item
Meme: Hotspot Lockdown in Brunswick West, Melbourne
Title (Dublin Core)
Meme: Hotspot Lockdown in Brunswick West, Melbourne
Disclaimer (Dublin Core)
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Description (Dublin Core)
This meme was posted in my Melbourne friends' Facebook Messenger group chat in the wake of Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews' announcement that certain 'hotspot' suburbs in Melbourne would return to Stage 3 lockdown at the end of June 2020. From the point of view of people outside of hotspot suburbs, it makes light of other neighbouring suburbs turning a blind eye to people who have to go back to lockdown, creating temporary walls between spaces, people and families. Unfortunately, because I lived in Brunswick West, I was one of the unlucky few in my friendship group who had to go back into lockdown. I watched on social media as all my other friends caught up with each other and took advantage of being able to travel more and go out to bars and cafes. As unlucky as I felt, memes like this one always functioned as a way to laugh at bad situations. My friends and I usually coped with lockdown through memes and jokes, characteristic of gen Z humour.
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Date (Dublin Core)
June 30, 2020
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Jasmine Stephens
Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
HIST30060
Partner (Dublin Core)
University of Melbourne
Type (Dublin Core)
meme, posted in a Facebook Messenger group chat but source unknown
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Education--Universities
English
Social Media (including Memes)
English
Humor
English
Consumer Culture (shopping, dinning...)
English
Food & Drink
English
Government Local
English
Neighborhoods
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
meme
Melbourne
Brunswick West
lockdown
hotspot
bar
Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)
meme
Melbourne
Brunswick West
lockdown
hotspot
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
11/10/2020
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
02/17/2021
This item was submitted on November 10, 2020 by Jasmine Stephens using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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