(MIP) The meme uses appeals and fallacies to convince people to buy toothpaste. (SIP 1) The meme preys on people's fear of not being accepted by society to get them to buy toothpaste using pathos. (STEWE 1)The meme illustrates people who used the toothpaste, and those who didn't. The pictures on the left used it, and are happy and have people on TV smiling on them. This is what the people in this society want and it relies on their neediness to be part of their TV families. On the right, the people on TV are frowning at the viewers because the humans didn't use toothpaste. It makes people think that they should use toothpaste, or their TV families, the only ones they care about in this cold society. (STEWE 2)The words are the sums of all of their fears. …show more content…
This is pathos, emotional appeal, because it makes people become very emotional and scared. This emotional vulnerability is key to getting people to buy toothpaste because no one wants to die alone, and the people in Fahrenheit 451 do not want their TV families to hate them.(SIP 2) This meme, because of the slippery slope fallacy used, is not based on facts. (STEWE 1)The dramatic turn from not using toothpaste, to dying alone and unloved, is a use of slippery slope. Because of the use of the fallacy, the meme is highly illogical as slippery slope tends to be. The nature of this fallacy is to turn seemingly innocent things into deadly mistakes.