Extinctions

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• Xantar@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The ragetacean era was so joyful and expressive. Now it’s only sad wojak. I guess memes adapt to their environmental pressures, which says a lot about our inner selves too.

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  • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s true. You just reminded me of a graphic I saved that send me back to that era

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    • Sylvartas@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I feel like there are a few anachronisms here, like the amogi. ATI stopped existing in 2006, among us released in 2018

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    • anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      to be honest I’m still there, disappointed at the low quality of recent games and playing older video games instead.

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    • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Pop Cap

      This one hurts. Fuck EA

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  • protist@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Rage face rulz wojak droolz

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  • antidote101@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I suspect that the mass extinction was caused by 4chans alt-right phase… And perhaps even earlier in the atheism+ and gamer gate periods.

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  • wanderer@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I guess memes adapt to their environmental pressures

    That should not be in any way surprising.

    The word was coined by British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (1976) as a concept for discussion of evolutionary principles in explaining the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena.

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• Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The biodiversity of rage comics can’t be replicated in a few gens, it takes time, this is only the start of the healing process.

  Excellent presentation tho.

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• db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I love this meme, but how can you represent the rageface era without ffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuu?

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  • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Image

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    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean the original one is not there

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• spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve realized that I miss the extants and feel like the internet is a less beautiful place without LOLOLOL face

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  • stelelor@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Agreed, look at all the natural variation that was lost. The newcomers don’t convey the same intensity of emotions.

    P.S. “extant” means still in existence, I believe you meant “extinct” :)

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    • spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Agreed! I like what they contribute but their now extinct forebears just bring a lot more flavour - and lightheartedness, I think.

      Hahaha this is what I get for not double checking a word I wasn’t sure of. Thank you, correctly used this time around :)

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  • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We should not have gone further than rage comics

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    • spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Agreed! Also, chefs kiss on the username 👌

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• OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I miss the Me Gusta face and also the Dodo bird.

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  • Breadhax0r@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I still use me gusta… though I’d be lying if a part of me didn’t feel incredibly old using it, but a part of that might also stem from the fact that I work with 18-25 year Olds

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• 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ah, meme memetics

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• fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Dawkins was right.

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• 10_0@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Holy fucking shit that is so true ffs lmao

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• Legend@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Petah ? Anyone ?

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The evolution of memes.

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    • antidote101@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I wonder whether evolutionary memetics will ever be a field of study. I guess know your meme and internet archives are all we have of a proto-discipline so far.

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• MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And here I am missing the “ORLY / YARLY” owls, Lolcats “in ur stuffs, doin teh things”, and “advice animals” eras from approximately 2.8 billion years ago in Internet-scaled time lol.

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