• Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    meme has evolved to just mean “funny thing”, and like, do you have a better word for that? it’s not a joke, and i’m not going to start saying “funny thing”.

    closest i can think of would be “a funny” which sounds worse than calling everything a meme

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      1 year ago

      But that’s what it is, a funny thing. Why can’t that be said? Because this is absolutely not a meme, not by a stretch. This image won’t be repurposed with different text, taking its meaning and applying it to a different context like memes do.

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      1 year ago

      So because you can’t summon the fortitude to say “funny thing”, the whole community has to be flooded with garbage posts that are not memes in any way? That makes a ton of sense 👍

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        1 year ago

        I agreed with your first comment, but now I think you may in fact be getting old.