Meme Girls // Rachel Homolak

Hey, Sister!

Rachel Homolak, founder and administrator of the popular Bluey Memes Facebook group, joins the Hey, Sisterhood for a witty conversation about the importance of embracing laughter during the “dramedy” of motherhood. The art of the meme, messy cars, and worldwide friendships based on a shared love for a kids’ TV show are all discussed in this third episode of the 5-part series on Motherhood, airing May 2022.

Call to Action:

Embrace laughter in your everyday life! Laugh out loud today.

“Make sure that you always include humor in all aspects of your daily life. It's so important! I'm a theater teacher, and in theater we learn there's the drama side and the comedy side with the two-faced masks. That's the symbol with theater and it's correct. You've got to make sure you maintain that balance. Life is always going to have ups and downs and have its challenges. There's always going to be something, but the one thing that you can make sure that you're consistent with is to make sure that you keep that humor in your daily life.

So my call to action is: if you're ever feeling down or inadequate or just not having a good day— Don't forget to laugh! And if something like going to a group with memes helps you and makes you smile and chuckle a little bit, please do that. We're all in this together and it's so important to make sure that you keep that laughter in your everyday life.

So please sisters make sure that you take time to laugh.”

- Rachel Homolak, Founder of Bluey Memes (a private Facebook group)

Referenced Links:

Join the Bluey Memes Facebook group

Watch the unique Bluey/Encanto Parody

• This musical parody was created using content contributed by various members of Bluey Memes Facebook group. Original “We don’t talk about Judo” meme creator: Katey Parson. Video creator: Eileen Nestman. Thank you to all who contributed to this creative song which brings a smile to the face of any Encanto + Bluey fan.

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Referenced Episodes:

Vacation Ready Series (previous month’s theme)

Ep 24: Wanderlust // Madeline Becker Hamilton

Ep 25: Hostess with the Mostess // Courtney Sandberg

Ep. 26 Vacation, All We Ever Wanted // Brit Snarr

Ep. 27 Bippity Boppity Book It! // Alexandria Palmer

Show Timeline:

0:00 Introduction of topic and guest expert, reminder of past month’s theme and Courtney’s voice disclaimer

3:50 Getting to know Rachel: wife, mother and theater and music teacher

5:10 Bluey Memes Facebook Group origin story

7:45 The importance of laughter in the world: phycological benefits and the need for laughter as a parent

10:00 Memes: a quick fix to accompany hard information to swallow, an inside joke between friends/strangers across the world

10:45 The art of the meme: crossovers, history of memes, Courtney’s home-builder marketing reference, an education in pop-culture

12:30 Laughter deepens relationships: credit to Bluey writers/creators, feeling seen as an individual, feeling unified with other parents all over the world

15:45 Rachel’s Bluey Memes group backpack story, Carley’s messy mini van story

18:10 Bluey (the show): inspiring kids and adults to be more imaginative, strengthening child-parent bonds

19:00 Bluey Memes domino effect: “We don’t talk about Judo” story

23:00 Bluey Memes Group: creative content, courage to post, safe place to “geek out”, rewarding experience to be a part of/founder of the group

26:15 Finding Bluey Memes Facebook group: privacy settings

27:30 Call to Action, concluding thoughts, outtakes