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[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)
  1. an amusing or interesting item (such as a captioned picture or video) or genre of items that is spread widely online especially through social media

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  1. an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meme

It doesn't have to be funny or include a cat or cartoon to be a meme.

[–] Godric@lemmy.world -3 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Thanks Mr. Dawkins, surely we've subscribed here for your rant in text!

an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture

Why do you think c/politics, c/news, c/politicalmemes, and c/bigbootybitches are separate comms? Why do comms with "meme" in the name exist at all? Literally everything on social media is ideas spread person to person within a culture.

People go for "Meme" comms looking for content that's actually funny or clever, not just random jagoffs screaming "me have good opinion, circlejerk me now, pls!". Do better, I beg

[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Godric@lemmy.world -2 points 3 weeks ago

Thank you! Beautify Lemmy today: give us a better medium than this garbage!

[–] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It's not even slightly clever to point out the similarity between Nazis and ICE? Yes, I think the connection is plain, but obviously culture at large doesn't or we wouldn't be allowing it to operate as it does.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 1 points 3 weeks ago

Spoken like the weakest great rune holder in the game.