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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)
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I'd argue memes are in fact memes.
As told by our Lord an Saviour, Richard Dawkins
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Cool meme!
That is actually a meme though, it's an idea that spreads.
It's just a meme you don't like
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:P
Awesome meme!
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 ~~funny~~ that you share
By 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.
Usually yes, but, at least in programming, "data is code, code is data" is a meme, in the sense that it's sharable. And it's not exactly funny, it's just an idea.
But yeah, meme is used for intense-based jokes because it's the norm
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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.
X is not a meme is not 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.
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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.
Gatekeeping meme, cool
I see Possibly Linux alot on ye ol Lemmy, sad to see they don't like memes 😕😔😒😞
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.
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but some has achieved meme status. you know the "Am i pregnat?" ones for example, and you can customize it as you need to fit your story or presenetation or whatever
Lol, among everything that is happening in the world, that bothers you.
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shut up, you jerk
I would agree but we are so far past that now. Anything is a meme these days.
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