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[-] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Modern memes are not nearly as good imo.

Edit: these

[-] WobWob@lemmynsfw.com 14 points 1 year ago

Modern memes are incomprehensible, just take a random picture and slap some completely unrelated text on top of it. Or maybe I'm just too old to get it. 🤷

[-] uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Because they're not memes. I had a heck of a time explaining to my partner that a picture with text on it does not constitute a meme - the same picture used repeatedly with different text captions? Meme.

It did not compute.

[-] PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 year ago

This was actually peak comedy in 2018 though

[-] ThoranTW@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Absurdist memes were/are peak

[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Who decides what a meme is? Consensus? The creator? A random moderator? This comment is a meme if we decide it is. Every one of these “memes “ were just random pictures with text until they went viral? Were they not memes until then?

[-] eeltech@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

From the dictionary:

an image, video, piece of text, etc., typically humorous in nature, that is copied and spread rapidly by internet users, often with slight variations.

Its exactly the part where it is copied and spread. It's just an image macro until then.

A arbitrary comment or image isn't a meme if nobody copies it and spreads it

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

It annoys me that they specify humorous and internet, even if neither of them is required for something to be a meme. Any idea is a meme if it proves successful in spreading among other people.

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

"I like Ike" was a meme from the election where Eisenhower became president.

[-] eeltech@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That could be covered by the 2nd definition, I just didn't think it was relevant here:

[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Either everything can be a meme, or memes don’t exist.

If nothing is a meme until it is, then all original content is, by definition, not a meme. They only become “memes” when spread and repeated.

So, any original picture with text is thus, not a meme, or potentially a meme. If it is not a meme at conception, then it shouldn’t be proliferated in meme communities, because it’s not a meme.

If everything is a meme, then there is no novelty or uniqueness to the content, thus making “memes” superfluous and ubiquitous to the point of nonexistence.

So, the qualifications are arbitrary.

[-] eeltech@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Your last two sentences is how I would describe it.

It's text on pictures until it ascends to meme-hood.

[-] eeltech@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Those are just image macros. Not every image macro becomes a meme

And not every meme is in the form of an image macro

[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

It's the poorly drawn black/white dudes that bother me the most.

[-] uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago
[-] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

No, I like those. I mean the newer ones-

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