The meme police
I run into this same issue with youtube meme compilations. If the entire compilation is funny home videos THOSE ARENT MEMES
I mean I agree. But I also appreciate people finding the quality comedy on those places for me and sharing it here.
Maybe just start a “SocialMediaGems” sub or something.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
I mean, it is though. A meme is an idea that has been spread, and even if that wasn’t the literal definition of it, people have modified the idea of what a meme was into what it is now. You are simply outnumbered and clinging to an outdated definition.
I think it’s fair to be frustrated when language is forcibly changed by lazy misuse. We are losing words due to declining literacy and trying to push back on that shouldn’t be seen as a worthless effort.
Obviously at some point numbers win over and then we have folks like you who have gotten comfortable using terms incorrectly and arguing that the definition has changed. And it has. But that doesn’t make it a good thing.
We are losing words due to declining literacy and trying to push back on that shouldn’t be seen as a worthless effort.
But we are inventing new extremely awesome and unimaginably, um, awesome words, like 67, too!
I like to throw this one around on occasion.
Edit: I’m looking through the community now in the past few hours…
A meme is a meme, regardless if it has been screenshot. it is the content not the vessel
but not if it’s a text-only screenshot, like a twitter/tumblr post. the point of the modern “meme” is to be variations on a visual-based theme.
otherwise, it’s just a joke or a comment
I also choose this guys wife is a meme. You done goofed is a meme. Memes aren’t image macros. Any image macro or screenshot from X The EveryThing APP isn’t a meme without some sort of community traction. Funny jpeg aren’t memes and its a vulguar bastardisation to belive them as such.
I am going by the original definition of meme, in which jokes and comments (if shared) are a meme, language is a meme too. otherwise you are just talking about captioning images, which are a type of meme, but saying only those are memes is jut dumb.
a tomato is a fruit, but does it belong in a fruit salad?
the real question is what goes on a salad, I there is no rule that no fruiting bodies are allowed in a salad. yet we also add cheese bacon, chicken and mushrooms to salads. what is your point?
I see a bit of both sides being argued in the comments here. We don’t have a clear rule about this atm, so removals have been inconsistent and case-by-case, often based on reports.
Maybe I’ll start and pin a discussion thread about this during the week (when we’ll get the most eyes on it) and see what the wider community wants, and if desired, maybe we can come up with a rule wording that isn’t too restrictive, but removes stuff that genuinely feels “off topic” for a memes page.
I didn’t make this meme.
Then let me put it this way:
OP didn’t say that memes can’t be textual in nature, OP complains about snappy Twitter, 4Chan, Reddit (idk about this one? Reddit does have memes in some subs) or similarly sourced screenshots of texts.
Such posts, while possibly humorous, and occasionally a bit funny, are not spread rapidly by Internet users, and rarely posted with any variation.Example 1 - this is a meme:
“Nanomachines, son!”Example 2 - this is not a meme:
Hahaha, looks like we’re back to arguing about the old No True Memesmen falacy…
Screenshots of text that you don’t like aren’t memes because of reasons
I never said I don’t like the screenshot I referenced, I just looked up for “twitter screenshot” on DDG and took a representative link. I find the content of the screenshot mildly amusing.
However, many people (including me) do not consider those to be memes;
if the most widely recognized definition of the word includes them, then I question its usefulness beyond a synonim for “funny quote”.
Haters gonna hate, but you deserve this.
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Reddit (idk about this one? Reddit does have memes in some subs)
But you are completely right about what I complain about. A meme often contains text, and sometimes even is purely text (for example a popcultural reference in a text-only medium can be considered a meme), but a single (maybe even witty) tweet or a forum discussion without any further context is maybe funny, but not a meme.
Is that an AI-answer?
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.
-Wikipedia
You can argue that many of the text posts do not meet the criteria, but just as many of the shitty image macros posted don’t either.
a meme was originally used to describe repeated patterns in genetics, and is fundamentally another way to say “mimic,” so we could build an argument for a totally different way to moderate content here.
but the spirit of the community is to showcase the modern internet meme, so I think taking the narrow definition of “new jokes over repeated images” is more appropriate than a literal definition of the word itself.
You stopped reading too early.
I was the whole thing. That extra context still doesn’t require image macros or exclude purely textual memes. Also good job continuing to break accessibility with laziness.
with laziness
Nah, on the GP’s case, breaking accessibility requires a lot more effort than preserving it.
Most of the “real” memes that get posted are terrible, so I can’t say I mind too much.
Feel free to make your own quality memes.
I came here to say this to you. Be the change! Flood the zone with what you want to see. We’d all appreciate it.
That’s literally what they did…
Why fo you feel the need to tell me what I am already doing though?
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Good catch
I’ve been wondering for sometime as to why those kinds of posts weren’t be removed and guided to another community. Like !microblogmemes@lemmy.world or !humor@lemmy.world
Maybe the rules re too lax, or the mods got used to let this go so the community gains traction.
!microblogmemes has a very narrow scope and !humor only wants “lighthearted” content. So these are only a partial replacement.
- not text only ⊗
Hear, fucking hear.
