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[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Just curious... When did regular comics become memes?

[–] ReCursing@kbin.social 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Around the time meme came to mean any joke in an image file format

[–] MisterMoo@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Gary Larson was my favorite memer. Ever seen The Far Side memes?

[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

See? Doesn't sound right at all.

[–] MisterMoo@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Oh come on, who doesn't remember reading the meme strips in the Sunday morning paper?

When I got older I started enjoying meme books like Spider-Man, too.

[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Paper? You mean hard copy website?

[–] AzuleBlade@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

This is some Idiocracy shit, I feel like this'll be the vernacular in the next 20-30 years. Hopefully an asteroid wipes us out first.

[–] arkh2183@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

About the time Saruman abandoned reason for madness.

[–] Zinc@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

We must join the memes, Gandalf. It would be wise, my friend.

[–] elsif@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Now that I think about it, maybe they always have been, sort of? The earliest memes I remember are the rage comics

Though, I feel like "meme" = funny relatable thing nowadays.

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Always has been by both the official definition of the word and the more modern internet use of it

[–] yata@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

That's not really true though.