• Flamekebab
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      6829 days ago

      “an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme” (from the Wikipedia article) seems to be a perfect fit for what’s going on in this post.

        • @corvi@lemm.ee
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          6129 days ago

          Memes and image macro were never synonyms. Image macros are memes, but that doesn’t mean all memes are image macros.

        • @itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          5129 days ago

          Memes are much older than image macros. And this here is a textbook example.

          Loss is a meme. Rickrolling is a meme. The Game (which you just lost) is a meme.

          • Miles O'Brien
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            29 days ago

            The Game (which you just lost)

            goddamn it I just lost the game…

          • @nintendiator@feddit.cl
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            128 days ago

            The Game (which you just lost) is a meme

            Well shit thank you for that. Can I at least get a participation medal?

        • Flamekebab
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          1229 days ago

          An image macro is a subset of meme, not the superset.

        • SkaveRat
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          929 days ago

          The word meme is older than the Internet

          OOP is using it in the most correct way that could even exist

            • @Skullgrid@lemmy.world
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              129 days ago

              partially related, I find the clickbaitiness increase in the titles and behaviour of Dawkins amusing. It’s like the joke from futurama, :

              Al Gore : As I discuss in my book Earth in the Balance and the much more popular Harry Potter and the Balance of Earth

              The selfish gene (Look,biology behaves like an asshole)
              The Blind Watchmaker (yeah, I’m sticking it to god. There is no “cosmic watchmaker”, shit’s all random)
              The God DELUSION (Fuck your god! Your lord, and your Christ)

        • @lunarul@lemmy.world
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          529 days ago

          Lol, the word “meme” was introduced as a parallel to gene and religion was provided as an example of a very strong meme. At one point the word started to be used for memes that spread over the internet, and since most of those were image macros, a lot people came to believe that meme means “image macro”.

          But jokes are a wonderful example of meme. There are jokes that have been going around since ancient times, some with almost no alterations.

    • @AlataOrange@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2529 days ago

      A meme is any self replicating thought that spreads from carrier to carrier.

      Notable examples include: language, stories, culture, fax machine jokes, and image macros

      • @ameancow@lemmy.world
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        329 days ago

        Human pattern recognition and repetition is the cornerstone of how our brains work.

        Once you get it, like really get it, you see the world in a whole new way.

        Everything is meme.