A7thStone comments on I'm here for memes, not snappy Xitter, 4Chan, reddit or similarly sourced screenshots of texts

[–] A7thStone@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago (4 children)

A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

-Wikipedia

You can argue that many of the text posts do not meet the criteria, but just as many of the shitty image macros posted don't either.

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[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de [S] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You stopped reading too early.

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[–] A7thStone@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

I was the whole thing. That extra context still doesn't require image macros or exclude purely textual memes. Also good job continuing to break accessibility with laziness.

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[–] marcos@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

with laziness

Nah, on the GP's case, breaking accessibility requires a lot more effort than preserving it.

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[–] kreekybonez@sh.itjust.works 1 point 10 months ago

a meme was originally used to describe repeated patterns in genetics, and is fundamentally another way to say "mimic," so we could build an argument for a totally different way to moderate content here.

but the spirit of the community is to showcase the modern internet meme, so I think taking the narrow definition of "new jokes over repeated images" is more appropriate than a literal definition of the word itself.

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