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[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 31 points 10 months ago (15 children)

New challenge: put the last text you wrote on the last picture you downloaded.

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 21 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] brachypelmasmithi@lemm.ee 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] potoo22@programming.dev 11 points 10 months ago

The nuance that makes this false is that the water will eventually get bored and seek another job.

[–] zedgeist@lemm.ee 13 points 10 months ago
[–] funkajunk@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months ago
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[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 27 points 10 months ago
[–] Exusia@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago
[–] lemmyman@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If some image macros are meme.

And some meme are image macros.

Does that mean all image macros are meme?

Debate.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The term 'image macro' has largely fallen out of common parlance. It is a loss of distinction, but not necessarily a loss of functional speech. When people are talking about memes in the Dawkins sense, they know they aren't talking about image macros, and when people talk about memes in the sense of internet comedy, they don't get confused. The only confusion that arises is when someone is trying to explain Dawkins memes and has to dance around the fact that the term has been hijacked by the culture.

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Dawkins is a smart guy, but "meme' is his greatest contribution to the world

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's nothing to sneeze at.

[–] popekingjoe@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The jug represents the simple pleasures of youth. Common to households across America, it would regularly be used to store a variety of sweetened beverages, from lemonade to iced tea to concentrated orange juice. The emptiness of the bottle signals the hollowness of nostalgia as we can only cling to the imagery even as we long for the sweetness within.

This meme reminds us that memes themselves are a throwback to a bygone day. In analyzing the symbolism, we seek to recreate the moment of blissful innocence. But we are bound by the chains of memory, able only to see but never touch the essence of the thing before us.

The text mostly just obstructs the image. You can ignore it.

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The text mostly just obstructs the image. You can ignore it.

Really? I interpreted the text in this meme as a rich commentary on the nature of textual interpretation.

  • Consider: "is the glass half full or half empty?" In this image the answer is unclear, obscured by the text.
  • In the same way, language interposes itself between us as thinking beings and the objective world.
  • Together, these point to the nature of subjectivity in interpretation: is the jug half empty or half full? We cannot even reach the empty/full dichotomy (which is so necessary for the expression of our subjective interpretations) because of the obscuring nature of language.
[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

I bet you excelled in your Literature classes.

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 16 points 10 months ago
[–] imvii@lemmy.ca 15 points 10 months ago

Am I right or am I right?

[–] GlenRambo@jlai.lu 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Can somone please send me a screenshot of this. Preferably with a red circle so I knlw what to look at.

[–] guynamedzero@sh.itjust.works 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We used to call these "image macros."

[–] OfficerBribe@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

Before that these were captions.

[–] dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago

The plastic mug obviously symbolizes a cheap method of gathering stuff together and distributing it around. The plastic itself symbolizes materials which hurt the environment.

[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 10 months ago

Oh pour it on why don't you

[–] match@pawb.social 8 points 10 months ago (3 children)

there should be a file format for image + overlay text

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

With the extension .meme of course

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[–] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

To be honest, I'm so sexual-relationsing old that I remember when the word meme actually meant something before it was appropriated and adapted for use to refer to the digital images we share electronically after adding text over them.

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 4 points 10 months ago

I too read the selfish gene back in the days. Not when it was new but before internet memes were a thing

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

I get the pitcher!

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

I get it, the pitcher represents the dichotomy of good and evil!

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is mostly likely the placebo effect. If people believe is a meme, it can have humorous effects even if is not really a meme.

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[–] JakJak98@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

I wrote a report on this in college. Anything can be a meme by definition. It's the act of sharing images, from one to another, that is what makes it a meme. Because it's memetic. The origin of meme.

Reciting newton's newton's principia mathematica could be considered a meme, as long as it's shared from one individual to the next.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

That’s the pitcher I use to refill my humidifier! Does the meme represent the dichotomy between humidifier in winter and lemonade in summer?

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