This is why I joined this community

  • MHanak@lemmy.world
    711·
    2 年前

    meme

    noun

    /miːm/

    ​an idea that is passed from one member of society to another, not in the genes but often by people copying it

    (Oxford learner’s dictionaries)

  • yokonzo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    2 年前

    That is actually a meme though, it’s an idea that spreads.

    It’s just a meme you don’t like

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      219·
      2 年前

      It is very much not a meme. If they added something to it like Obi wan or Shriek it would but just some random screenshot does not count

      • yokonzo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        2 年前

        What im talking about is literally the definition of a meme, you’re talking about your idea of meme and you seem somewhat attached to it. That’s fine, but that is definitely not what a meme is, im sorry

  • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world
    164·
    2 年前

    A meme is just something funny that you share, so anything someone finds funny and posts online or shares with one friend is sharing memes.

    • owsei@programming.dev
      11·
      2 年前

      A meme is just something funny that you share

      By the technical definition, it doesn’t even have to be funny, it only needs to be quickly sharable

      • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world
        11·
        2 年前

        Usually you wouldn’t share something that wasn’t funny/amusing though, there is that whole angle of sharing horrific stuff for shits and giggle though… so yeah it really doesn’t matter.

        • owsei@programming.dev
          1·
          2 年前

          Usually yes, but, at least in programming, “data is code, code is data” is a meme, in the sense that it’s sharable. And it’s not exactly funny, it’s just an idea.

          But yeah, meme is used for intense-based jokes because it’s the norm

      • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world
        33·
        2 年前

        What are chain email jokes than the OG meme? If you take a picture of the joke and share it, you just memed it. Share it vocally, and yeah it’s not then.

        • Kusimulkku@lemm.eeEnglish
          11·
          2 年前

          What if you write it again? And I meant that it doesn’t seem right even though it technically mighr be.

          • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world
            13·
            2 年前

            I agree, but also, how’s that different than copying/pasting, which is a short hop to a screen grab. So it’s an either all or nothing thing I think unfortunately.

  • kubica@fedia.io
    7·
    2 年前

    Screenshots of text comments are all over the internet though. I used to think about it before coming here, but now I just take it as a normal.

  • poorlytunedAstring@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 年前

    Most of the memes come from communities where the typical user is way too comfortable with things like photoshop, so they can crank out a gag before it suddenly seems like a waste of time. Even the “slapped together” looking stuff takes longer than you think. This skill set - funny but also has casual graphic design skills - is narrow enough that even their throwaway jokes tend to get passed around and around and around for years.

    This community is more, uh, engineering focused, so they’re doing pretty good to find reasonably funny people to screenshot. For what it’s worth, I agree with you, but the internet always has some tiresome gotcha post to shut you down with, lest you set any boundaries for yourself, so everyone’s stuck with whatever people feel like calling a meme.

  • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM
    61·
    2 年前

    I’ve taken to posting stuff that doesn’t feel like a traditional “meme” format to one of the c/Funny communities or c/Humor.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      213·
      2 年前

      That’s good as that’s where it is suppost to go. It isn’t that the screenshot isn’t funny or useful. It just isn’t a meme

  • Gork@lemm.ee
    5·
    2 年前

    Needs to be a picture of a monitor screen with the meme on it but taken with a potato so it’s all blurry and shit.