This is why I joined this community
Cool 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)
I’d argue memes are in fact memes.
As told by our Lord an Saviour, Richard Dawkins
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
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.
That’s basically straight from Richard Dawkins, who literally invented the term like 50 years ago.
A meme is to
informationideas what a gene is to genetic information.Edit: my word choice was bugging me.
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.
Aren’t we using that old guy’s term?
See where you’re coming from, this is easy to defend:
Temba, his arms wide.
What if I told you that your post isn’t a meme, that memes are supposed to have banner text or footer text. Just having a picture with text on isn’t a meme, so your post doesn’t belong in [email protected]?
So you’re just a troll, cool.
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!
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
The term you’re confusing with meme is image macro.
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
Gatekeeping meme, cool
:P
Awesome meme!
You can’t gatekeep what a meme is/isn’t.
Yes I can
I thought a screenshot worked out fine
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.
Lol, among everything that is happening in the world, that bothers you.
It does and I’m tired of pretending it doesn’t
shut up, you jerk
I see Possibly Linux alot on ye ol Lemmy, sad to see they don’t like memes 😕😔😒😞
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.
Now this is a good meme.
I wouldn’t go that far
I would agree but we are so far past that now. Anything is a meme these days.
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 ;)
