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• snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yeah I thought the literal definition of a meme is an idea that gets shared

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• Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t maybe the way people use the word, like every other fucking word.

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  • Vespair@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    My guy, that is how everyone else uses the word.

    Again, what definition are you using, because the rest of us are entirely in the dark about what you mean

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    • Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Haha funny images that follow an established template. You think most even know who Dawkins is?

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      • Vespair@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        What a stupid take; I don’t know who coined the term “coffee,” does that mean I don’t know what coffee is?

        And yeah sorry to inform you dude, but you are the only one incorrectly thinking that meme means “funny image.”

        What you’re describing is an image macro, a specific type of meme.

        And honestly taking it further, it is the templates used themselves that are mematic, not the individual images themselves, if we wanna get real pedantic about it.

        Meme does not, and has never, been “funny images that follow a template” any more than “music” is “down tuned guitar riffs over blast beats.” That is just a singular example of the greater form.

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      • Anivia@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Haha funny images that follow an established template

        That’s a terrible definition for the word, way too narrow. The actual use of the word meme in modern language is much broader than that. Here is a list of trending memes that don’t fit your definition:

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        • Blue egg yolk speedruns

        • Butterface contest girl

        • Abraham Lincoln virus

        • Blue Collar SpongeBob

        • Heavyweight Susie

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