This is why I joined this community
X is not a meme is not a meme.
That is actually a meme though, it’s an idea that spreads.
It’s just a meme you don’t like
It is very much not a meme. If they added something to it like Obi wan or Shriek it would but just some random screenshot does not count
What im talking about is literally the definition of a meme, you’re talking about your idea of meme and you seem somewhat attached to it. That’s fine, but that is definitely not what a meme is, im sorry
The term you’re confusing with meme is image macro.
I’ve taken to posting stuff that doesn’t feel like a traditional “meme” format to one of the c/Funny communities or c/Humor.
That’s good as that’s where it is suppost to go. It isn’t that the screenshot isn’t funny or useful. It just isn’t a meme
Screenshots of text comments are all over the internet though. I used to think about it before coming here, but now I just take it as a normal.
It annoys me to no end
Ahhh, but a pet peeve is only useful when it is kept to one’s self!
When you try to turn your pet peeve into a meme, that’s proselytizing ;)
Cross post to mildly infuriating.
This isn’t a meme either
It literally is
Words on picture != meme
So many widespread popular memes are screenshots of tweets. That’s no different than a comment.
Image macro
This is just an opinion. It doesn’t even try to be funny to be considered a mene
A meme is just something funny that you share, so anything someone finds funny and posts online or shares with one friend is sharing memes.
A meme is just something
funnythat you shareBy the technical definition, it doesn’t even have to be funny, it only needs to be quickly sharable
Usually you wouldn’t share something that wasn’t funny/amusing though, there is that whole angle of sharing horrific stuff for shits and giggle though… so yeah it really doesn’t matter.
Seems wrong to consider regular jokes as internet memes
What are chain email jokes than the OG meme? If you take a picture of the joke and share it, you just memed it. Share it vocally, and yeah it’s not then.
What if you write it again? And I meant that it doesn’t seem right even though it technically mighr be.
I agree, but also, how’s that different than copying/pasting, which is a short hop to a screen grab. So it’s an either all or nothing thing I think unfortunately.
No I agree on all or nothing, I’m just saying I’d go with nothing
Now this is a good meme.
I wouldn’t go that far
The memes can be pretty cringe on here. Same with that lemmyshitpost community, I had to block that one because it was so bad.
Or, you could post “not cringe” memes yourself to those communities.
Most of the memes come from communities where the typical user is way too comfortable with things like photoshop, so they can crank out a gag before it suddenly seems like a waste of time. Even the “slapped together” looking stuff takes longer than you think. This skill set - funny but also has casual graphic design skills - is narrow enough that even their throwaway jokes tend to get passed around and around and around for years.
This community is more, uh, engineering focused, so they’re doing pretty good to find reasonably funny people to screenshot. For what it’s worth, I agree with you, but the internet always has some tiresome gotcha post to shut you down with, lest you set any boundaries for yourself, so everyone’s stuck with whatever people feel like calling a meme.
You can’t gatekeep what a meme is/isn’t.
Yes I can
Lol, among everything that is happening in the world, that bothers you.
It does and I’m tired of pretending it doesn’t
:P
Awesome meme!
meme
noun
/miːm/
an idea that is passed from one member of society to another, not in the genes but often by people copying it
(Oxford learner’s dictionaries)
As told by our Lord an Saviour, Richard Dawkins
I’d argue memes are in fact memes.
The Oxford dictionary is made by a bunch of old English nerds. They couldn’t find a meme if it was glued to a telephone pole
Yeah I’m not going to let the English language be shaped or solidified by people who have dedicated their lives to studying and deeply understanding language!
You’re totally wrong!
They could find a meme if it were glued to a telephone pole. They’d just need a team of undergraduates, semanticians, and a box of jelly babies to fully assess the nature of the item before declaring it a meme or not.
That’s basically straight from Richard Dawkins, who literally invented the term like 50 years ago.
A meme is to information what a gene is to genetic information.
50 years ago the internet wasn’t even a thing. Also that dude is yet another old guy.
It is lazy to just post a screenshot. At least convert it into a actual meme. There are plenty of templates that would work.
So you’re just a troll, cool.
Aren’t we using that old guy’s term?
See where you’re coming from, this is easy to defend:
Temba, his arms wide.
To your credit, language is indeed an ever-evolving thing and what words mean what is not a constant, particularly in this age of internet.
Point against you, is that means that a ‘meme’ is largely whatever the majority of people think it is.
Needs to be a picture of a monitor screen with the meme on it but taken with a potato so it’s all blurry and shit.
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And being Wrong lol
