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This is why I joined this community

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[-] MHanak@lemmy.world 82 points 11 months ago

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)

[-] illi@lemm.ee 27 points 11 months ago

I'd argue memes are in fact memes.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 11 points 11 months ago

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

[-] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 22 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That's basically straight from Richard Dawkins, who literally invented the term like 50 years ago.

A meme is to ~~information~~ ideas what a gene is to genetic information.

Edit: my word choice was bugging me.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

[-] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 17 points 11 months ago

So you're just a troll, cool.

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 months ago

Aren’t we using that old guy’s term?

See where you’re coming from, this is easy to defend:

[-] Rubisco@slrpnk.net 3 points 11 months ago

Temba, his arms wide.

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[-] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 10 points 11 months ago

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!

[-] other_cat@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 10 points 11 months ago

As told by our Lord an Saviour, Richard Dawkins

[-] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 79 points 11 months ago
[-] lugal@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago
[-] yokonzo@lemmy.world 41 points 11 months ago

That is actually a meme though, it's an idea that spreads.

It's just a meme you don't like

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 months ago

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

[-] cadekat@pawb.social 23 points 11 months ago

The term you're confusing with meme is image macro.

[-] yokonzo@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[-] dch82@lemmy.zip 28 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
[-] Kratzkopf@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 11 months ago

Awesome meme!

[-] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] owsei@programming.dev 14 points 11 months ago

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

[-] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

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[-] poorlytunedAstring@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] kubica@fedia.io 8 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 points 11 months ago
[-] dogsnest@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Cross post to mildly infuriating.

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

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 ;)

[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago
[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 months ago

I wouldn't go that far

[-] thorbot@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Gatekeeping meme, cool

[-] recapitated@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

X is not a meme is not a meme.

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Harvey656@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

I see Possibly Linux alot on ye ol Lemmy, sad to see they don't like memes 😕😔😒😞

[-] PanoptiDon@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

You can't gatekeep what a meme is/isn't.

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[-] answersplease77@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

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

[-] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

The memes can be pretty cringe on here. Same with that lemmyshitpost community, I had to block that one because it was so bad.

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[-] cheddar@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

Lol, among everything that is happening in the world, that bothers you.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 months ago

It does and I'm tired of pretending it doesn't

[-] mriormro@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

shut up, you jerk

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