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Vespair@lemmy.zip 2 days agoWhat 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.
Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Now you are just being willfully obtuse to protect your ego. Go look up the difference between descriptive and prescriptive.
Vespair@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Image doesn’t show for me.
And I’m well aware of the difference, I’m saying that you are perceiving how people have been using the term wrong. People say meme when talking about image macros the same way people say fruit when talking about apples; it applies because the thing being discussed is an example of the field but it is not the whole of the field.
It is okay to be wrong. People will respect you more if you simply say “wow, I guess I didn’t realize that.”