Missing memegen

Back at $COMPANY we had an internal meme-site. I had some reputation in my team for creating good memes. When I watched Episode 3 of Season 2 from Yes Premier Minister yesterday, I really missed a place to post memes.

This is the full scene. Please watch it or even the full episode before scrolling down to the GIFs. I had a good laugh for some time.

With Debian, I could just download the episode from somewhere on the net with youtube-dl and easily create two GIFs using ffmpeg, with and without subtitle:

ffmpeg  -ss 0:5:59.600 -to 0:6:11.150 -i Downloads/Yes.Prime.Minister.S02E03-1254485068289.mp4 tmp/tragic.gif

ffmpeg  -ss 0:5:59.600 -to 0:6:11.150 -i Downloads/Yes.Prime.Minister.S02E03-1254485068289.mp4 \
        -vf "subtitles=tmp/sub.srt:force_style='Fontsize=60'" tmp/tragic_with_subtitle.gif

And this sub.srt file:

1
00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:12,000
Tragic.

I believe, one needs to install the libavfilter-extra variant to burn the subtitle in the GIF.

Some

space

to

hide

the

GIFs.

The Premier Minister just learned, that his predecessor, who was about to publish embarassing memories, died of a sudden heart attack:

I can’t actually think of a meme with this GIF, that the internal thought police community moderation would not immediately take down.

For a moment I thought that it would be fun to have a Meme-Site for Debian members. But it is probably not the right time for this.

Maybe somebody likes the above GIFs though and wants to use them somewhere.