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[-] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Just curious... When did regular comics become memes?

[-] ReCursing@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

Around the time meme came to mean any joke in an image file format

[-] MisterMoo@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Gary Larson was my favorite memer. Ever seen The Far Side memes?

[-] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

See? Doesn't sound right at all.

[-] MisterMoo@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Oh come on, who doesn't remember reading the meme strips in the Sunday morning paper?

When I got older I started enjoying meme books like Spider-Man, too.

[-] scutiger@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Paper? You mean hard copy website?

[-] AzuleBlade@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

This is some Idiocracy shit, I feel like this'll be the vernacular in the next 20-30 years. Hopefully an asteroid wipes us out first.

[-] arkh2183@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

About the time Saruman abandoned reason for madness.

[-] Zinc@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

We must join the memes, Gandalf. It would be wise, my friend.

[-] elsif@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Now that I think about it, maybe they always have been, sort of? The earliest memes I remember are the rage comics

Though, I feel like "meme" = funny relatable thing nowadays.

[-] gamermanh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Always has been by both the official definition of the word and the more modern internet use of it

[-] yata@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

That's not really true though.

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