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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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[–] tourist 214 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (9 children)

I posted this yesterday in LemmyShitpost a grainy AI image of a horse puking in Walmart or some shit

Honest to god thought it was a horse barfing in a convenience store. Then someone pointed out that horses can't puke.

The jpegification and motion blur did a lot of heavy lifting. None of the shit in the background makes any sense. Back legs also look kinda weird.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 5 months ago

Aw fuck, I have to admit it got me too...

[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Are those gaspumps in the convenience store?

[–] atocci 27 points 5 months ago

I thought maybe a coffee dispenser, or an ATM repeating itself... It could conceivably be anything!

[–] errer 18 points 5 months ago

How else you gonna fill up your horse?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I would have assumed it was a simple image edit/photoshop job for meme purposes. That's what it looks to me anyway.

But I'm not going to zoom in too much because, AI or not, fake or not, it's giving me nausea!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I thought it was hay or feed of some form, and the horse gas just yanked it's head up in alarm, leaving an arc of feed in the air.

Looking closer, that would have to be sawdust to be that consistent in texture, and even actual bodily fluids don't leave such a sharp edge on a puddle.

[–] ChicoSuave 22 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I saw that and didn't know horses can't puke, but thought it was fake but because the parking lot was empty of lights, paint stripes for parking, bollards, etc. it's a vacuum behind the horse.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

It's just dark

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

You mean you've never stopped at a convenience store while traveling through the infinite dark void?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I like the sliding glass door

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

At least it was incredibly fucking funny.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

In German there is this kinda obscure phrase „Pferde vor der Apotheke kotzen sehen“, which translates to „seeing horses puke in front of the pharmacy“ used to denote something highly unlikely, because horses can’t puke and especially in front of a pharmacy where they could get something against their nausea.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I don't even think the back legs look too weird. One of the things I've found when trying to spot AI is that often actual images look weird like this just because of the angle / compression etc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Ai images are shitposts by nature, they're the least amount of effort you can put into it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I kinda had a feeling this one was AI, but it looked so realistic I kinda just shrugged it off.