Look, I’m all for words evolving, but if someone points at a dog and says “cat”, its fine to say “actually its a dog”
Same thing with memes.
If someone posts a selfie and writes “feeling frisky, might buy a taco” and thinks that’s a meme, they are entitled to be wrong.
I’m entitled to continue shouting “that’s not a fucking meme” until I die, and if someone wants to tell me “that’s a weird hill to die on” I’ll tell them that they should shut the fuck up and post memes instead of lecturing me about language.
I have certainly never been one of the “memes are just image macros” people, and obviously I’m not very open to accepting anything shared online as a meme. But there’s a certain spirit of posts in-between that just has more effort and thought put into it (even if it’s a shitpost) that I think there’s some, be it ironic, integrity in a post that should be upheld if communities on a forum such as lemmy are to prosper. Which is why I think OPs image is a high quality meme, because at least some thought went into it, unlike Sarah’s random thoughts on twitter.
For the same reason my blog post doesn’t belong in a News community, the effortless screengrabs don’t belong on a meme forum.
Look, I’m all for words evolving, but if someone points at a dog and says “cat”, its fine to say “actually its a dog”
Same thing with memes.
If someone posts a selfie and writes “feeling frisky, might buy a taco” and thinks that’s a meme, they are entitled to be wrong.
I’m entitled to continue shouting “that’s not a fucking meme” until I die, and if someone wants to tell me “that’s a weird hill to die on” I’ll tell them that they should shut the fuck up and post memes instead of lecturing me about language.
I have certainly never been one of the “memes are just image macros” people, and obviously I’m not very open to accepting anything shared online as a meme. But there’s a certain spirit of posts in-between that just has more effort and thought put into it (even if it’s a shitpost) that I think there’s some, be it ironic, integrity in a post that should be upheld if communities on a forum such as lemmy are to prosper. Which is why I think OPs image is a high quality meme, because at least some thought went into it, unlike Sarah’s random thoughts on twitter.
For the same reason my blog post doesn’t belong in a News community, the effortless screengrabs don’t belong on a meme forum.