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I like to drop in "as was the style at the time" in casual conversation to see who picks up on it.
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This is the true beginning.
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It's strange how no matter when someone was born, the best period in world history is the one when they happened to be kids.
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This is more-or-less the format used for the motivational posters that were popular in offices in the 90s or so. People made fun of those with demotivational posters. But, those weren't really "memes", IMO.
But, the earliest thing that I think deserve the name "memes" (normally called Image Macros) were on the Something Awful forums (and soon after that on 4chan). In the early days they were mostly animal based: "lolcat", "doge", the "O RLY?" owl, etc.
Can someone point to "memes" that had the text underneath the picture, rather than using the impact font and written directly on top of the picture?
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This was a "viral video", but was it a "meme"?
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That font was definitely not the style at the time.
The two fonts I remember were Comic Sans, used for putting words in the mouths of pets, or Impact for most other things.
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I like to drop in "as was the style at the time" in casual conversation to see who picks up on it.
I feel like we'd get along bc I'm constantly dropping random Simpson's/other media references into conversations ^^;
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The demotivational poster meme came before the advice animals meme.
I remember the blogs that's icanhascheeseburger ran that had feeds with posts of various meme formats. Demotivational was my favorite style
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This is more-or-less the format used for the motivational posters that were popular in offices in the 90s or so. People made fun of those with demotivational posters. But, those weren't really "memes", IMO.
But, the earliest thing that I think deserve the name "memes" (normally called Image Macros) were on the Something Awful forums (and soon after that on 4chan). In the early days they were mostly animal based: "lolcat", "doge", the "O RLY?" owl, etc.
Can someone point to "memes" that had the text underneath the picture, rather than using the impact font and written directly on top of the picture?
Question: Isn't what you describe in the first paragraph the very definition of a meme?
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Question: Isn't what you describe in the first paragraph the very definition of a meme?
What is the definition of a meme?
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What is the definition of a meme?
Devoting oneself to one’s art, impoverishing oneself in the pursuit of Truth, or welcoming martyrdom for one’s cause do not, it seems, represent behaviours which are obviously beneficial to the individual of for the spread of that individual’s genes. So, given that this kind of behaviour clearly exists, and is widespread, what is reaping the benefit? Dawkins’ somewhat surprising answer was the ideas themselves. Ideas are clearly in competition with each other so perhaps there’s a selection process going on, analogous to natural selection, through which some ideas prove successful and spread whilst others die out. He concluded that there was such a selection process and, to emphasise the parallel to natural selection, he coined the term “meme” which come from an ancient Greek root, “mimeme”, meaning imitated thing.
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Devoting oneself to one’s art, impoverishing oneself in the pursuit of Truth, or welcoming martyrdom for one’s cause do not, it seems, represent behaviours which are obviously beneficial to the individual of for the spread of that individual’s genes. So, given that this kind of behaviour clearly exists, and is widespread, what is reaping the benefit? Dawkins’ somewhat surprising answer was the ideas themselves. Ideas are clearly in competition with each other so perhaps there’s a selection process going on, analogous to natural selection, through which some ideas prove successful and spread whilst others die out. He concluded that there was such a selection process and, to emphasise the parallel to natural selection, he coined the term “meme” which come from an ancient Greek root, “mimeme”, meaning imitated thing.
That was the original use, but what is it in the modern Internet context?
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That was the original use, but what is it in the modern Internet context?
meme noun [C] (ON INTERNET)
an idea, joke, image, video, etc. that is spread very quickly on the internet
- Take a look at the top ten internet memes for this past year.
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meme noun [C] (ON INTERNET)
an idea, joke, image, video, etc. that is spread very quickly on the internet
- Take a look at the top ten internet memes for this past year.
So, would you agree that viral videos are memes? I wouldn't.
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I miss pown.it - I never understood it but I thought it was great
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I remember these were called Demotivational Posters before they were called memes.
Akhchually, they were called "memes" since 1976. It's just that the word didn't get popular with them damn kids.
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So, would you agree that viral videos are memes? I wouldn't.
Yes, it's literally in the definition. Even ideas are memes.
A meme is to culture what a gene is to biology.
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This was a "viral video", but was it a "meme"?
A "viral video" is practically the definition of a meme.
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Yes, it's literally in the definition. Even ideas are memes.
A meme is to culture what a gene is to biology.
So, you completely accept that definition of a meme?
