Dude, I shit brix
Nobody:
OP formatting his meme:
Meme format has progressed so much
/s
This is more-or-less the format used for the motivational posters that were popular in offices in the 90s or so. People made fun of those with demotivational posters. But, those weren’t really “memes”, IMO.
But, the earliest thing that I think deserve the name “memes” (normally called Image Macros) were on the Something Awful forums (and soon after that on 4chan). In the early days they were mostly animal based: “lolcat”, “doge”, the “O RLY?” owl, etc.
Can someone point to “memes” that had the text underneath the picture, rather than using the impact font and written directly on top of the picture?
Question: Isn’t what you describe in the first paragraph the very definition of a meme?
What is the definition of a meme?
Devoting oneself to one’s art, impoverishing oneself in the pursuit of Truth, or welcoming martyrdom for one’s cause do not, it seems, represent behaviours which are obviously beneficial to the individual of for the spread of that individual’s genes. So, given that this kind of behaviour clearly exists, and is widespread, what is reaping the benefit? Dawkins’ somewhat surprising answer was the ideas themselves. Ideas are clearly in competition with each other so perhaps there’s a selection process going on, analogous to natural selection, through which some ideas prove successful and spread whilst others die out. He concluded that there was such a selection process and, to emphasise the parallel to natural selection, he coined the term “meme” which come from an ancient Greek root, “mimeme”, meaning imitated thing.
That was the original use, but what is it in the modern Internet context?
meme noun [C] (ON INTERNET)
an idea, joke, image, video, etc. that is spread very quickly on the internet
- Take a look at the top ten internet memes for this past year.
So, would you agree that viral videos are memes? I wouldn’t.
I wouldn’t say that viral videos are memes, they are viral videos. But their content can become a meme, which could be a quote from it or some kind of content shown in a different context.
E.g. the Area51 Naruto runner is a meme, but the report where he appears is not.
Yes, it’s literally in the definition. Even ideas are memes.
A meme is to culture what a gene is to biology.
So I badgerbadgerbadgerbadger which was the mushroom mushroom at the time.
snaaake!
I remember these were called Demotivational Posters before they were called memes.
Yeah I remember folks used to actually print and hang these.
YES! My graphic design class in highschool printed out a bunch of em for the art show.
Akhchually, they were called “memes” since 1976. It’s just that the word didn’t get popular with them damn kids.
Most of the people on the entirety of lemmy and mastodon won’t get this one
I beg to differ. I’m an elder millennial and as far as I can tell, most people here are my age or older.
Same + agree
Same, I keep seeing people acting like Lemmy is full of young people, but I see a ton of people referencing stuff in our age range and older.
Get off my lawn
Even more proof of being old now that younger folks can’t afford houses!
I saw a poll for age a while back on Mastodon and most respondents were in their 30s or 40s
I’ve felt like an odd one out here for a while. Took a bit to realize I’m probably thrice as old as any average user here.
I feel like maybe I should be nicer to the literal children who try to debate with me their asinine, juvenile takes, but also… I think getting slapped around a little in your safe-space is healthy at times.
the literal children who try to debate with me their asinine, juvenile takes
This explains so much, as someone in the upper age brackets; youngsters baying for a learning opportunity while cutting themselves on their edge.
Maybe I should be more forgiving.
Maybe I should be more forgiving.
Sure, you can be more forgiving. But slap them around anyway!
Meh, fuck that. Welcome them to the internet and smack them down. They gotta learn. Embrace your inner Aslan.
I think the average user age here is probably 25 to 30, are you 75 to 90 years old?
one of my cats has a safe space he retreats to, sometimes I try to pet him when he’s in there and he hisses at me
Kills me inside when I see youtuber/celebrity communities
Needs more belt onions.
You can’t just tickle my nostalgia organ like that.
I like to drop in “as was the style at the time” in casual conversation to see who picks up on it.
I feel like we’d get along bc I’m constantly dropping random Simpson’s/other media references into conversations ^^;
That font was definitely not the style at the time.
W E L C O M E T O T H E N E X T L E V E LIs this a Chris Nolan reference? 🤯
I don’t think Christopher Nolan was around when this was made
Duhhhhh, he went back in time, just like in Christopher Nolan’s hit film Tenet.
The movie name is a reference to the Sator square, yes 🤘
Oh wow I remember these, even made a couple myself
Shoulda been Abe’s head in the middle. Go the extra 15 miles!
The demotivational poster meme came before the advice animals meme.
That means you are old to other old people
And there was a whole kerfuffle about the advice dog/animal format not being a meme, but an image macro!
All image macros are memes but not all memes are image macros.
I remember the blogs that’s icanhascheeseburger ran that had feeds with posts of various meme formats. Demotivational was my favorite style
Is this loss?
