Ironic
Don’t you think?
Did we run out of memes? Did we circle back to the start?
I has a bucket
About that…
NOOOooo!!!
Indubitably I say they do be, good chap
This isn’t even close to the beginning.
The word meme was coined in the 70s to describe social phenomena of the time years before fax, email, or general internet memes became the norm.
I meant more like three start of easily shared online memes.
some people think using sticks and stone tools was the first meme, others reckon it’s spoken language.
I mean he is pretty long
HTTP 414 in the wild!
The original, the legend.
Damn, I’m old.
Holy shit! An actual meme! Not just some text on a fucking picture!
It’s literally just some text on a picture…?
It is one of the necessary conditions for a meme, but it is not sufficient.
A meme is any reusable, repeated format, literally speaking. You’re just gatekeeping.
If it has not been imitated / repeated it’s literally not a meme. That’s not gatekeeping, it’s observing a definition.
You have even agreed with me in your definition. Posting a random picture with some text on it that you made that has imitated nothing is not a meme, it’s just a picture with text on it.
The picture is not necessarily the meme. The format is. That’s where you’re gatekeeping. Posting a random new picture with a caption on top, that’s still a meme format.
Oh, is that why this com is called memeformats and not memes? That’s a huge stretch to say “oh it’s a picture with words so it’s a meme”. No, it isn’t.
I would argue it is either 1) neither necessary nor sufficient, or 2) that it is sufficient but not necessary. Which line depends on whether we are talking about something literally BEING a meme, or something merely having the potential to be a meme.
In the former case - whether something is a meme or not - having text is neither necessary nor sufficient. Adding text to an image does not a meme make, and equally some memes do not have text (or aren’t images at all).
In the latter - whether something could be a meme - adding text is sufficient to provide that potential. It may not be necessary (6-7 for example) but it could be enough.
Whenever someone says ‘om nom’ I imagine the sound emanating from this cat eating a cheeseburger.
Remember the good one days? Back in 2011, when we stayed up till 2am laughing at r/F7U12, Caturday Memes, and 60s Spider-Man.
Back when the memes were original and funny:
he returned when we needed him most
Was at a cat cafe with my kids not too long ago. They had this breed of cat and it was being very affectionate with me and my son. So I say to her “you, you can haz cheeseburger” and my son (9 y/o) looks at me and asks “is that a reference to something?” So I pull out my phone and show him The Sacred
JediInternet TextsI thought has was spelled with a z. Am I misremembering it, or am I thinking of the variants that came after?
Ahh simpler times.
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