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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.
HIST30060.

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)

HIST 30060 University of Melbourne Syllabus

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

11/10/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

02/17/2021

Item sets

Covid 19
Australian Collection

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://www.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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