this post was submitted on 18 Apr 2024
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Because they're not memes. I had a heck of a time explaining to my partner that a picture with text on it does not constitute a meme - the same picture used repeatedly with different text captions? Meme.
It did not compute.
Who decides what a meme is? Consensus? The creator? A random moderator? This comment is a meme if we decide it is. Every one of these “memes “ were just random pictures with text until they went viral? Were they not memes until then?
Your last two sentences is how I would describe it.
It's text on pictures until it ascends to meme-hood.
Those are just image macros. Not every image macro becomes a meme
And not every meme is in the form of an image macro