• lemmyman@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    If some image macros are meme.

    And some meme are image macros.

    Does that mean all image macros are meme?

    Debate.

    • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      The term ‘image macro’ has largely fallen out of common parlance. It is a loss of distinction, but not necessarily a loss of functional speech. When people are talking about memes in the Dawkins sense, they know they aren’t talking about image macros, and when people talk about memes in the sense of internet comedy, they don’t get confused. The only confusion that arises is when someone is trying to explain Dawkins memes and has to dance around the fact that the term has been hijacked by the culture.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    The jug represents the simple pleasures of youth. Common to households across America, it would regularly be used to store a variety of sweetened beverages, from lemonade to iced tea to concentrated orange juice. The emptiness of the bottle signals the hollowness of nostalgia as we can only cling to the imagery even as we long for the sweetness within.

    This meme reminds us that memes themselves are a throwback to a bygone day. In analyzing the symbolism, we seek to recreate the moment of blissful innocence. But we are bound by the chains of memory, able only to see but never touch the essence of the thing before us.

    The text mostly just obstructs the image. You can ignore it.

  • dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee
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    The plastic mug obviously symbolizes a cheap method of gathering stuff together and distributing it around. The plastic itself symbolizes materials which hurt the environment.

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    3 months ago

    By selecting a seemingly unrelated image to the text, stating that the image doesn’t matter, you’ve actually associated a link to the text to prove your point, therefore making the previously unrelated image relevant. Checkmate atheists.

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    I wrote a report on this in college. Anything can be a meme by definition. It’s the act of sharing images, from one to another, that is what makes it a meme. Because it’s memetic. The origin of meme.

    Reciting newton’s newton’s principia mathematica could be considered a meme, as long as it’s shared from one individual to the next.

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      But therin lies the definition of meme! Since you’re sharing something in a memetic pattern, you’ve fundamentally made the image or video a meme! :)