User:DoctorWho42/Post Aesthetics

Post Aesthetics (PA) is a Facebook group where members can share and discuss Internet memes. As of May 26, 2016, the group had 40,000 members.

History
The group was created as an off-shoot of an older group called Aesthetics by University of Chicago students. When Aesthetics achieved 1,000 members, its Facebook group privacy settings were changed from "public" to "secret" and Post Aesthetics was founded.

Dat Boi
In May 2016, Dat Boi, an Internet meme of a unicycling frog whose caption "here comes dat boi!!! … o shit waddup!", came under criticism by many Facebook users for its appropriation of African American Vernacular English. Its popularity in the Facebook group Post Aesthetics led to a ban on the meme.

Reception
American online magazine Inverse's Jack Crosbie called Post Aesthetics "a 40,000-strong secret Facebook group dedicated to posting only the dankest of memes." Yale University student newspaper The Yale Herald's Alex Swanson says "[m]any Yalies belong to [Facebook] groups like 'post aesthetics' and 'People that Aumm sometimes and are also… ooohhhh…..' that occupy a sphere of the internet known as 'weird Facebook,' a world of dank memes and the gooey ether of mainstream-niche Internet—references to Nietzsche superimposed onto shit-pics of golden retrievers, for example."