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It’s an old one, but it checks out.
Well, maybe not the ONLY one, but an extreme minority probably.
Are you like old? “Kids and their new fangled me me’s. Back in MY day we used the funnies in the NEWSPAPER to get a laugh” Kinda old?
Yes.
Young, but old-fashioned.
Yes. Yes, you are.
I’m not sure it’s possible. There are good memes and bad memes, to say you don’t like memes in general doesn’t really make sense. If you see something funny with a picture and some words that resonates with you, you’ve enjoyed a meme. What you’re saying is you’ve seen things that you would find funny or relatable but because it was delivered in image and word form it’s no longer funny or relatable?
Memes are a thing of the internet.
We never had them growing up.
There’s not too much difference between a meme and a single panel comic or political cartoon at this point.
“Meme” had a much narrower definition not that long ago…
Are you only allowed to like things that you liked when you were growing up?
Memes arent actually from the Internet, only this particular form of text on a picture meme is. And that particular style has historical precursors in actual physical newspapers.
A good way to think of them is a shared in-joke repeated. If you and your friends keep making the same joke, that’s a meme. Yo mama jokes are a meme.
The Wilhelm scream in films is a meme. It’s often used as a joke by sound designers and done so repeatedly by practically everyone in the industry.
You absolutely had memes growing up, they just weren’t called that at the time (or they were, but not popularized as such).
Go read Richard Dawkins’ “Meme: The selfish gene” (1976)
Also memes are just equivalent to ‘in-jokes’ you have with your friends. I imagine it’s not possible to dislike all jokes entirely (save some neurodivergence I guess idk) but it’s normal to have preferences. I imagine you would need to find the right memes for you, or be part of the culture and communities where they’re coming from to help provide context.
Its an older meme sir, but it checks out.
yes
Like ALL of them?
There are some i don’t think are funny, there are some that are just stupid, and there are some that I just don’t understand.
So, I’m not a fan of any of those, but to hate ALL memes seems like it’s based on an unjust bias in your brain.
Like if someone went to YouTube for the first time and watched a couple of those immature “bro, it’s just a prank!” channels and decided that they hated all internet video creators.
No, I completely get where you’re coming from. As a blind person, they are just terrible. Because instead of saying what people want to say, they just post this damn picture that I can’t read and completely kills any conversation. I block all communities that I can for memes just because it’s pointless for me to have them show up.
Yeah, probably.
Why don’t you like memes? Is it the format? The sense of humor? Keeping up with current trends? Saying you don’t like memes is like saying you don’t like jokes.
I never had memes growing up.
So you don’t like anything new? Yea that’s weird, there are objectively beneficial new things like technological and medical advancements, social things like being accepting of gay people, etc…
Yes you did.
Memes have been around possibly longer than written language in various forms.
The definition of “meme” is:
A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another.
A lot of the memes on lemmy are shit, but still, they’ve been around.
Really depends what you mean by “memes”.
In general.
So, like, any self-propogating idea, you don’t like it?
Congrats on your unique brain architecture, I guess. When the rest of us are destroyed by parasitic thought-worms, you’ll be there to continue the human race…
Back then things were more stringent and memes had fixed formats. The same set of pictures, posted over and over again with new text - I can see how one might dislike those. But nowadays the definition is kinda watered down and meme just boils down to “funny picture”, even if they are only posted once. I don’t think you can dislike those in their entirety without just disliking fun itself.
Yes. Something’s wrong with you
No. I don’t care for them either. They’re lazy attempts at humor. Some are mildly amusing, but mostly they’re shit. What’s disturbing is that they’ve become a form of communication, and the grammar and syntax of kids are showing that. Memes are making them dumb.
People were snipping out pieces of newspaper and sending them to eachother in the post as jokes, as soon as newspapers became a thing. People used to have silly paintings commissioned to send to eachother too.
Memes are the DNA of the soul, friend.
No.
That is literally what it is though. The name meme was chosen because it’s supposed to be the cultural equivalent of a gene.
It’s literally graffiti. It’s lazy, and it’s lowbrow. I don’t care if you don’t like that.
Idk, I feel like complaining about culture instead of creating your own is lazy. But what do I know.
Whatever that means.
Back to the main subject, I’ll take the opinion of an actual psychologist over teenage randos.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hot-thought/201302/why-memes-are-bad-idea
It means, why don’t you make something you enjoy, instead of complaining about something you don’t enjoy?
People complained about books and newspapers when they were the new thing. I think we can all agree they didn’t make the world a worse place. Besides, the “hot thought” of a single psychologist does not make science. There are climate change deniers among climate scientists as well. (eg. Richard Lindzen)
Assuming everyone on here is a teen says a lot about you as well.
