this post was submitted on 05 Nov 2025
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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.
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lol that's so funny <-- presumably what you thought when you decided to post this is in a "meme" community instead of some kind of serious political comm.
I myself think this community either has to pick a better name or get different content because there is a serious mismatch, but stated in the sidebar this community is for sharing screenshots of microblog posts. That makes this is the perfect for this post, despite the name of the community. I can't speak for the op, but i dont think theyre laughing about this
Yeah I posted this here because it fits the community not because its a meme
Serious posts are certainly common here, but most are clearly humorous.
As a subscriber to this community, i know. If you were aware as well, that makes your comment even more unnecessary.
Common, yes. Acceptable, no.
I dont mind you having an opinion, but better share it in a more constructive manner next time. Because your way of communicating might be common online, it's not very desirable. Not for me at least.
Yeah as someone who browses by all and came across this, I upvoted without realising the Community it's in. But you're right. This is in no way a meme.
What makes something a meme?
Following the Internet definition of it? (Because we wouldn't want to commit the etymological fallacy, would we?) It's a piece of content that follows a known predictable format, or that at least appears to do so but subverts it. I don't agree with @FishFace@piefed.social that anything funny on the Internet is a meme, or even that memes need to be funny (though they usually are). But it's certainly a notably different meaning from the broader cultural one that Dawkins came up with 50 years ago.
Wiktionary's definition 2 is pretty good:
Most things called "memes" are not memes as the term was originally defined.
Every bit of information is a meme as the term was originally definition. Nowadays, the term means "something funny on the internet".