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[–] 40 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I thought “bless your heart” was just a meme up until I went back to my Midwestern home state with my wife (from Mexico) and our two chihuahuas. In a tourist “town” she’d gone into a bakery and I waited for her with the dogs outside.

Another white family (I’m white) had walked up and started talking to me. They were pretty friendly up until I mentioned we were visiting from Los Angeles at which point they responded “bless your heart” in a heavy southern accent and immediately walked away. It was kind of jarring seeing that kind of behavior after years of living away from there.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I mean... It is a meme.

    I feel like everyone is forgetting that memes are any idea that spreads like a virus, and not just .webms of tweets with the phrase "nobody:" at the top

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It's offensive (for me) to consider the "nobody:" posts memes.

    Likewise, expressions are not memes either.

    I will gatekeep this, and if you think that's wrong, just think of it like I'm making gatekeeping a meme.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Likewise, expressions are not memes either.

    It's ok to have an opinion, even when you're objectively wrong. A meme is just 'a unit of cultural transmission', and image macros and funny pictures are all memes, just like phrases or dances are as well.

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