The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to all the things going on in the WIRED earth of culture, from motion pictures to memes, Tv to Twitter.
Initially, let us get a person point out of the way: Memes are not intended to be comfortable, or awesome. Hopefully they induce laughter, but they’re not over performing it at others’ cost. I get all that. And nevertheless, I gotta say, all of these memes about Invoice and Melinda Gates’ divorce are kinda freaking me out.
For people who haven’t observed them, the memes just take on a couple various flavors: Some forged the Microsoft cofounder as a rich, newly single male wanting for adore. Some riff on the strategy that single, less-rich women of all ages may well be wanting for him. Still other people make some form of comparison to the divorce of Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos. They are