• Ghyste@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Remember getting the newspaper and flipping straight to the memes page? Or going to the meme book store? Or getting up early to watch the Saturday memes on TV?

    It sounds stupid because comics and cartoons aren’t memes.

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      1 year ago

      A comic or a cartoon could express a meme, just like anything else. Not in this case, though.

      Most people just see “meme” as “a funny picture with text on it”, so a comic fits right in there. Technically speaking, most things posted as memes aren’t memes, but people are too lazy to separate these things out. And really, why should they?

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      1 year ago

      Imagine giving a remote fuck about this and getting all worked up enough to comment on it

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        1 year ago

        Imagine not giving a fuck about filling out other communities that need more content in favor of having a garbage dump for everything.

        I apologize for wanting to see the Fediverse grow into a fully fleshed out group of instances with active communities.