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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
Does the title qualify this as a meme since it's now recontextualized? Discuss, or perhaps refuse to again.
Person in red is dumb. Richard Dawkins himself has renounced the definition he set. Go read a book.
By Richard Dawkins original definition, a smile is a meme. As is a high five.
Ain't nobody headed to c/memes to see a fucking high five, and red knows that.
Red is a pedantic annoying dbag. Green set a firm boundary with an idiot and I commend them.
Richard Dawkins himself has renounced the definition he set. Go read a book.
Plus he was always critizised for that definition by his peers, for example by Scott Atran showed through cognitive psychological studies that ideas do not regularly replicate by imitation and that ideas do not develope like genes.
And on top of that, Dawkins is a dickhead. And a dumb one falling into an AI psychosis.
Ain't nobody headed to c/memes to see a fucking high five
Counterpoint:
That's... not a high five.
A little pedantic, but fine. This one then?
All I see is an image often used in memes, please elaborate
No, your original comment was correct, OP left out the key detail that this image is always recontextualized by added text. That recontextualization creates the meme.
Counterpoint to your counterpoint: that image is a meme template, an image used to create memes through adding text that recontextualizes the image.
It's also a high five.
What if the contextualizing text is the title of the post? Then is the meme template considered a meme?
I would not agree. If I download a post, the title is not downloaded with it, is it?
I don't think that the criteria for what belongs in c/memes should be whether it's still a meme if downloaded and placed somewhere that isn't c/memes. That's like saying "I bought this champagne from France but poured it from its original bottle into another bottle, and now that there's no label designating it as champagne, it was never truly champagne to begin with."
I hate that I know exactly from which post this came from
A meme is a gene we spread with our mind, not our genitals. Or is our genitals the meme and the mind spreads the gene? Meme hurt itself in its confusion.
Genitals can become memes.
Goatse. Blue Waffle. Crusty Pizza.
Thank you for this informative comment on genital spreading
Red's definition of a meme would ruin any meme community.
I never understood this argument. If it's wrong, it'll get down voted. If it's down voted people won't see it.
And if it's not, then people are enjoying it so shut up.
I'm seeing this post for the first time, sitting at -30. I'm seeing it and yet it's pretty heavily down voted. I'm not browsing by controversial or something like that.
Anyway, downvotes don't really work the same way to hide unpopular posts the way you're used to reddit doing. People aren't enjoying it and are in fact still seeing it, so maybe just check yourself before getting hostile.