Bo Burnham | Meme | TikTok
TIKTOK Origin of the ‘That is a Scarecrow’ meme
The “That is a Scarecrow” meme trend is wildly popular on TikTok because it speaks to a common behavior we see in ourselves and others: denial. In short, the meme speaks to the human tendency to intellectualize and overcomplicate something in order to achieve psychological distance from it. If we’re overly descriptive of something it…