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It’s an old one, but it checks out.
Well, maybe not the ONLY one, but an extreme minority probably.
Are you like old? “Kids and their new fangled me me’s. Back in MY day we used the funnies in the NEWSPAPER to get a laugh” Kinda old?
Yes.
Young, but old-fashioned.
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Why don’t you like memes? Is it the format? The sense of humor? Keeping up with current trends? Saying you don’t like memes is like saying you don’t like jokes.
I never had memes growing up.
So you don’t like anything new? Yea that’s weird, there are objectively beneficial new things like technological and medical advancements, social things like being accepting of gay people, etc…
Yes you did.
Memes have been around possibly longer than written language in various forms.
The definition of “meme” is:
A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another.
A lot of the memes on lemmy are shit, but still, they’ve been around.
Like ALL of them?
There are some i don’t think are funny, there are some that are just stupid, and there are some that I just don’t understand.
So, I’m not a fan of any of those, but to hate ALL memes seems like it’s based on an unjust bias in your brain.
Like if someone went to YouTube for the first time and watched a couple of those immature “bro, it’s just a prank!” channels and decided that they hated all internet video creators.
I’m of the opinion that everything that gets passed off as a meme isn’t necessarily a meme. Sometimes they’re just funny pictures. (Actual humor content may vary)
Memes should have something to do with a commonly understood phrase or thought in the culture and highlight those.
Of course, with enough push those funny pictures can become memes but ideally they would start as a meme and then have comedy added to them.
Of course, with enough push those funny pictures can become memes but ideally they would start as a meme and then have comedy added to them.
Ahh yes this would be a meta meme. Where the meme is only a meme because its self referencing.
Millhouse is not a meme.
To many of us, that sounds like “I don’t like humor”. I really don’t get you.
To be fair to OP, it’s “I don’t like this specific kind of humour”. Which is a pretty normal thing to feel. There are a lot of comedy TV shows I don’t find funny or find downright unpleasant, but that doesn’t mean I don’t like humour in general. Much as this overly-serious comment suggests otherwise.
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Yeah, probably.
Its an older meme sir, but it checks out.
Back then things were more stringent and memes had fixed formats. The same set of pictures, posted over and over again with new text - I can see how one might dislike those. But nowadays the definition is kinda watered down and meme just boils down to “funny picture”, even if they are only posted once. I don’t think you can dislike those in their entirety without just disliking fun itself.
Really depends what you mean by “memes”.
In general.
So, like, any self-propogating idea, you don’t like it?
Congrats on your unique brain architecture, I guess. When the rest of us are destroyed by parasitic thought-worms, you’ll be there to continue the human race…
Yes. Something’s wrong with you
In the sense that they make up the vast majority of what is disseminated in our primary digital social spaces, are often pandering to a small set of intellectual properties that people use to define themselves, and end up shaping the way we then respond to the world around us in derivative, abbreviated ways that doesn’t foster deep interaction? Kinda, yeah. It gets repetitive.
Blocking certain users and magazines helps. Unfortunately, and moreso in the fediverse, it doesn’t unearth much else, tbh. It’s just what we be doing in this era. I think there are a lot of societal factors influencing that.
At the same time, the right meme still gives me that dopamine hit. Big fan of greentexts, for example. So I don’t dislike memes, per se. Just the glut of them.
What do you consider to be memes? Just images/image macros? Gifs? Videos? Copy pastas? Do you dislike all of these, or just some?
Generically, I’d say memes are essentially just widespread “internet culture” inside jokes. Disliking humor or inside jokes is definitely not the norm.
