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[–] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Look, I'm all for words evolving, but if someone points at a dog and says "cat", its fine to say "actually its a dog"

Same thing with memes.

If someone posts a selfie and writes "feeling frisky, might buy a taco" and thinks that's a meme, they are entitled to be wrong.

I'm entitled to continue shouting "that's not a fucking meme" until I die, and if someone wants to tell me "that's a weird hill to die on" I'll tell them that they should shut the fuck up and post memes instead of lecturing me about language.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    I have certainly never been one of the "memes are just image macros" people, and obviously I'm not very open to accepting anything shared online as a meme. But there's a certain spirit of posts in-between that just has more effort and thought put into it (even if it's a shitpost) that I think there's some, be it ironic, integrity in a post that should be upheld if communities on a forum such as lemmy are to prosper. Which is why I think OPs image is a high quality meme, because at least some thought went into it, unlike Sarah's random thoughts on twitter.

    For the same reason my blog post doesn't belong in a News community, the effortless screengrabs don't belong on a meme forum.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    If your blog featured actual journalism (yes, this is clearly defined) there's no reason it couldn't be on a news comm. I'm more bothered by all the non-journalism click bait spewed out by "the news™️" that ends up there.

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