• Snot FlickermanEnglish
    126·
    5 months ago

    If this text doesn’t get replicated on the internet forever, it’s a failure of a meme.

    • daltotron@lemmy.world
      16·
      5 months ago

      Do we consider the text to be the words on the screen or the ideas within the text itself? As a kind of reaction to a current state of affairs, I wouldn’t be surprised if the core idea of this text is thought up by someone every couple days at least, if only in passing. As long as the conditions which brought this meme about in the first place are sustained, it basically can’t die. I’d say, in that sense, this meme could only be considered successful if it doesn’t get replicated forever, it could only be successful if it dies.

      • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
        9·
        5 months ago

        What a bloody great comment.

        And yes, what matters is the discourse (the ideas within the text), not the utterance used to convey said discourse (the words on the screen).