memes

Ahahaha.

I like to throw this one around on occasion.

Edit: I'm looking through the community now in the past few hours...

I've been wondering for sometime as to why those kinds of posts weren't be removed and guided to another community. Like !microblogmemes@lemmy.world or !humor@lemmy.world

I'm here for snappy Xitter, 4Chan, reddit or similarly sourced screenshots of texts, cuz i won't open none of those sites.

Most of the "real" memes that get posted are terrible, so I can't say I mind too much.

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.

-Wikipedia

You can argue that many of the text posts do not meet the criteria, but just as many of the shitty image macros posted don't either.

I don’t mind those posts.

I see a bit of both sides being argued in the comments here. We don't have a clear rule about this atm, so removals have been inconsistent and case-by-case, often based on reports.

Maybe I'll start and pin a discussion thread about this during the week (when we'll get the most eyes on it) and see what the wider community wants, and if desired, maybe we can come up with a rule wording that isn't too restrictive, but removes stuff that genuinely feels "off topic" for a memes page.

Me: (come here to laugh.)

OP: (taking it real personal and arguing with everyone in the comments)

> be me
> writing fediverse-original greentext
> does only appear correctly in certain viewers

OP: 👏 TOMATO 👏 IS 👏 NOT 👏 A 👏 FRUIT 👏

Everyone: tomatoes are botanically considered a fruit

OP: ackshually I don’t like it in my fruit salad, therefore it is not a fruit

A meme is a meme, regardless if it has been screenshot. it is the content not the vessel

Brave souls risk their lives and sanity digging those screenshots out of the cesspits for your viewing pleasure.

The meme police

Hear, fucking hear.

wrong

Anything humans spread around and share other than our DNA is a meme. The definition of a meme is "non-genetic information shared by any means."

I mean, it is though. A meme is an idea that has been spread, and even if that wasn't the literal definition of it, people have modified the idea of what a meme was into what it is now. You are simply outnumbered and clinging to an outdated definition.

I mean I agree. But I also appreciate people finding the quality comedy on those places for me and sharing it here.

Maybe just start a "SocialMediaGems" sub or something.

Saw this "stop posting content" rant, just below it in my feed is a "Why doesn't anyone post on the fediverse!?!?" rant

I wonder if these things are related.

i hate that microblogmemes allows people to just post anything from any microblog platform. they always justify it with "well a meme is actually just a self-replicating idea" which is technically true, but it ignores the meaning the term 'meme' has on the internet, which is basically just an image based joke that plays off of internet culture in general, typically including previous memes. in the context of a scientific field like linguistics or phycology, the first definition makes more sense. in the context of an internet group with no scientific interest, the second is obviously correct. also they always use that excuse when they are posting US politics instead of memes, which is bullshit because there are communities for politics and political memes. dont make off-topic posts, go post it in a community where it is relevant.

100% agree.