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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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[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001 50 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I feel like this is mainly because things keep getting worse so you look back and think "Hey maybe that wasn't so bad after all"

[–] TurtleJoe 12 points 3 months ago

The social media algorithms were definitely much different in 2014. They tended to promote links to outside articles and trending topics, even if those links were to BuzzFeed listicles. In 2015/16 they had all changed to trying to keep people engaged on the original site, so they started pushing rage bait that would get people arguing in the comments.

In 2014, everybody was talking about what color that dress was. In 2015, Breitbart was like the number 3 most popular shared "news" site on Facebook.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The Great Depression, World War II, and Jim Crow are calling

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hey I'm not saying that far back. We were actually on a pretty good path for a while there in like the 70's-90's.

Things weren't good but it seemed like things were actually geared toward making life better for everyone.

Then the fire nation attacked.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Ironically, that is actually the decline:

Factoring in the fact that the civil rights act was passed in 1964, there was a decade (of extreme racism and misogyny) where things looked "up" to certain privileged people. But not by the 80s or 90s