What exactly is a meme?

[ToneLa]

It's when people cover up their own crippling lack of funny by embracing what has already been established as arguably amusing and quoting that instead. Prompting laughs of recognition, the crushing familiarity the only actual quality anyone can respond to.

A bit like my posts

[bim sherman shirts]

It saddens me a bit when people I know who are genuinely funny and imaginative in real life resort to endless meme regurgitation on FB. Maybe they assume that's just how humour has to be 'done' on the internet?

To be fair though, for some it's definitely a "FB is shit, it doesn't deserve my wit" stance.

[Icehaven]

Article about a seven year old kid who is allegedly globally famous* for being in loads of memes, with lots of implied criticism about how his godawful family are milking it dry.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/jan/28/gavin-thomas-meme-internet-son-social-media


*I don't remember seeing any of him but I have no memory for faces, unlike all of China apparently.

[Captain Z]

[bgmnts]

See, that's just a caption.

[Blumf]

See, that's just a caption.

It's called an 'image macro', grandad!

[Ray Travez]

I have seen so many different things that have been labelled memes that I feel like i've been absolutely bummed silly with a confusion cock.

PARKLIFE!

[Ray Travez]

A meme's like a catchphrase that's shared among people- like a communal catchphrase that may or may not have a visual element

[purlieu]

See, that's just a caption.

Nah, it was made on makememe.org, it's a meme.


I remember when those '50 questions about yourself' quizzes used to go around on MySpace and stuff and people called them memes. Because they were all about yourself, I assumed it was 'me me'. These days it just means a jokey image shared (generally with an embedded caption) on the internet. Once you old buggers have fucked off this earth, nobody will argue and that will be the strict definition of it. All is well with the world.

[Ray Travez]

Once you old buggers have fucked off this earth

NEVER!

[ToneLa]