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I'm here for memes, not snappy Xitter, 4Chan, reddit or similarly sourced screenshots of texts
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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.
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.
You stopped reading too early.
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.
Nah, on the GP's case, breaking accessibility requires a lot more effort than preserving it.