this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2023
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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

See? Doesn't sound right at all.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year 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 5 points 1 year ago

Paper? You mean hard copy website?

[–] AzuleBlade 4 points 1 year 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.

[–] gamermanh 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

That's not really true though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

About the time Saruman abandoned reason for madness.

[–] Zinc 3 points 1 year ago

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