What if I told you that your post isn’t a meme, that memes are supposed to have banner text or footer text. Just having a picture with text on isn’t a meme, so your post doesn’t belong in !memes@lemmy.world?
They could find a meme if it were glued to a telephone pole. They’d just need a team of undergraduates, semanticians, and a box of jelly babies to fully assess the nature of the item before declaring it a meme or not.
The Oxford dictionary is made by a bunch of old English nerds. They couldn’t find a meme if it was glued to a telephone pole
That’s basically straight from Richard Dawkins, who literally invented the term like 50 years ago.
A meme is to
informationideas what a gene is to genetic information.Edit: my word choice was bugging me.
50 years ago the internet wasn’t even a thing. Also that dude is yet another old guy.
It is lazy to just post a screenshot. At least convert it into a actual meme. There are plenty of templates that would work.
So you’re just a troll, cool.
Aren’t we using that old guy’s term?
See where you’re coming from, this is easy to defend:
What if I told you that your post isn’t a meme, that memes are supposed to have banner text or footer text. Just having a picture with text on isn’t a meme, so your post doesn’t belong in !memes@lemmy.world?
To your credit, language is indeed an ever-evolving thing and what words mean what is not a constant, particularly in this age of internet.
Point against you, is that means that a ‘meme’ is largely whatever the majority of people think it is.
You’re totally wrong!
They could find a meme if it were glued to a telephone pole. They’d just need a team of undergraduates, semanticians, and a box of jelly babies to fully assess the nature of the item before declaring it a meme or not.