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[–] Trex202@lemmy.world 68 points 10 months ago (3 children)

We typing out Shower Thoughts onto a black background and calling it memes now?

[–] Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 10 months ago

Text.txt 😕

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[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Anything containing words is a meme

[–] Justdaveisfine@midwest.social 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Your face is a meme! Literally.

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Technically anything that conveys an idea. (But actually the idea itself is the meme)

[–] iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is your definition/ meme criteria a meme too? Was my question a meme? Am I a meme?

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

When Conan’s ratings were scaring the affiliates, many attempts were made to get him to change the show. One of the last-chance attempts was when Conan was brought into Lorne Michael’s office and briskly told that it didn’t have to be good. It just had to get an audience. He refused, and was canned soon after.

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Commercials are the content. The shows are filler.

[–] Trex202@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Literally why Soap Operas exist. Breaks between soap commercials.

[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Pretty much most children's cartoons were designed just to sell toys and other merchandise, and of course ads in between the show to get kids interested in pestering their parents into buying the advertised products. I tried watching a Chip and Dale episode on Disney + recently out of nostalgia, I used to love that show as a kid, but now I realized how simplistic and nonsensical the plot was, cause it's designed to be consumed by children and they ain't exactly media literate yet lol

[–] Benign@fedia.io 11 points 10 months ago

In Norway it is illegal to advertise to kids. I love that so much. Can we adult have that too?

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 6 points 10 months ago

Which is why my network TV free lifestyle is much more pleasant. Advertisements ruin everything good.

[–] Ugurcan@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

ITT people meeting capitalism. If something’s free, you are the product.

[–] rickdg@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

It's also how podcasts work for people who don't know what a RSS feed is. Or having chapter markers. Or no ad injection.

[–] underwire212@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

When deciding what to put on the air, they literally call the advertising “content” and the show that you’re watching “filler”.

[–] FrostbittenDuck@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago

Having watched a bit of YouTube TV recently, it is impressive that even now, the streaming apps still have fewer ads than television.

[–] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago

Just like Netflix who purposefully scrambles the start screen to get you to watch something else rather than your favourites. They want you to not realize you have already seen all the good stuff already and unsubscribe.

[–] BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 1 points 10 months ago

Ad break? You mean Lemmy time :)

[–] Plesiohedron@lemmy.cafe 0 points 10 months ago

What's a "commercial break"? Arrrrrrr!