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I'm not sure they will (reddthat.com)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/memes@sopuli.xyz
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[–] -5 points 2 months ago (8 children)

This reminds me of people in the past making fun of these using computers and calling them dorks and nerds. Personally i'm much concerned with people who use memes and pictures as a form of debate

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

    using media to convey ideas is concerning, using the lying machine that destroys the planet, good actually!

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    The problem is the medium of memes doesn't convey ideas well, if at all, and helps promote thought-terminating ideologies and ignorant partisanship. If you can fit the idea into a meme, it's probably oversimplified to the point of uselessness, and if the meme relies on you already knowing the real idea, it's not informing anyone of anything.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    To understand the ideas present in this meme, you must understand a basic level of anthropology, (not a huge ask, but an ask) the concept of 'the orient,' (much bigger ask) critique of that concept, (less rare knowledge but often found only through right-wing criticism of the critique) 'decolonization,' (same again) and liberalism. (Same again.) If I fail to understand university level academic discourse on a field I don't work in, this is utter gibberish. This does not teach anyone who is not already somewhat familiar with the discourse anything. It might as well be in a foreign language to most readers, and, again, oversimplifies the ideas which are being obliquely mentioned.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 months ago

    using media to convey ideas is concerning,

    Using only media and memes to convey ideas looks indeed concerning to me, take a look at https://sopuli.xyz/ frontpage: most of it it's memes and there's not a single text thread

    using the lying machine that destroys the planet

    You can run AI locally on your computer and it will destroy the planet as much as a playing a videogame would do.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices, that can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena with a mimicked theme.

    Memes carry a lot of meta data that is unspoken, a single meme can be worth a thousand words

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