Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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Wait a minute... (slrpnk.net)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/microblogmemes

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[–] feedum_sneedson 18 points 1 week ago

I don't know, my girlfriend bought me a coat.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

Hardly. MAGAts learning the truth a couple months ago so what's about to transpire over the next four years was something COMPLETELY different would've been the greatest gift.

[+] [email protected] -7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not a meme.

[–] MutilationWave 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I see a comment like this every day or so. Just make your own community if you don't want to circle jerk with us until the masters cut our heads off to sell them as NFTs.

[–] TrickDacy -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why do people argue against community names (and words in general) having meaning?

[–] Hackworth 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They're just using the original definition of meme - "an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

How is this not an idea?

[–] TrickDacy 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There's a problem with taking a one sentence definition out of context and then citing like that. You're reading that definition here as though it were "an idea, behavior, style, or usage that can be spread from person to person within a culture".

Whereas to me it's clear that sharing a thing online at least once doesn't make it a meme. If it did, the word loses any useful meaning and may as well be "thing". Meme used to mean that the image or idea was so popular it gained a symbolic meaning that an entire culture could recall in a glance. Not just that it was a thing they saw on the Internet once.

[–] Hackworth 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

For more about the full context, pick up The Selfish Gene, in which Richard Dawkins coins the term and explains it as a "gene" of information. Genes are genes whether or not they get passed on.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

If it did, the word loses any useful meaning and may as well be "thing".

Look up the origins of the term. The word "meme" has always had this problem, because it was poorly defined in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Your MOM'S not a meme!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Nice

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