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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.


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Edit: As @bdonvr@thelemmy.club points out below

  1. This is just a mascot and is not a new logo
  2. The blog referencing Mozilla’s statement on the mascots gender says, (he/she/they/them/it), use whatever pronoun you prefer.
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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

At risk of being abrasive...

I see blue checkmarks, I downvote. Nothing personal. But I don't want to support that even indirectly.

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Eh at this point I'm just sick and fucking tired watching sexuality become nothing but marketing bait. People's sexuality and gender are becoming nothing but a two cent market gimmick and it's fucking insulting.

This isn't cool representation! It's hey lgbtq people your stupid and fucking easy. Look we can use the right words. Trust us and buy our shit.

It's just the fucking corporatization of rainbows in June all over again.

[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

watching sexuality become nothing but marketing bait.

This is what I figured what would happen once people started pushing for more explicit sexuality acceptance. This is the bed they made.

Trust us and buy our shit.

This is also due to people inside said corporations pushing for this shit due to ideological reasons.

*some LGBT:* Give us the positive attention and validation that we crave! *Large Corporations, seeing opportunities:* OK *some LGBT:* No, not like that!

Again, welcome to their bed.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's not just corporations. It's influencer-grifters like Pirat_Nation.

...And, to be blunt, reposters who further spread the ragebait, like OP.

The platforms, ultimately, are what facilitate "marketing bait." But I dunno what to do about that, as human being simply cannot help themselves once they see stuff like that. It works, apparently.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

"Becoming" as though "sex sells" hasn't been a thing for literally as long as we've had the concept of commerce…

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah agree

It's a fucking fox, why does it need to have a specific gender? It was genderless by default they don't need to announce it one way or another, other than to pander to people.

[–] nightlily@leminal.space 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Good instinct. Pirat_Nation is a grifter/ragebaiting account. No one should be giving him visibility.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I mean, yeah... It's a blue checkmark account.

At this point, if you're paying for extra engagement on Twitter, that is beyond "benefit of the doubt." It seems safe to assume its some kind of attention farm.