Memes

[Forum]

lol the anti-meme crew only focusing on reddit/9gag/4chan et al as if dsf doesn't have it's own memes and in-jokes...

nah m25

[particle-jim]

lol the anti-meme crew only focusing on reddit/9gag/4chan et al as if dsf doesn't have it's own memes and in-jokes...

nah m25

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[Forum]

[Terpit]

I still like the rustled jimmies meme, it's just those comic face things that I can't stand

[magma]

richard dawkins must of been face palming solidly for the last 10 years

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[particle-jim]

richard dawkins must of been face palming solidly for the last 10 years

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Indeed

[DJoe]

richard dawkins must of been face palming solidly for the last 10 years

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Yeah thats where i first heard the word

[Laszlo]

richard dawkins must of been face palming solidly for the last 10 years

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Indeed

I don't get it

[magma]

richard dawkins must of been face palming solidly for the last 10 years

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Indeed

I don't get it

Dawkins coined (or at least popularised, I'm not totally sure) the word "meme" in The Selfish Gene... saying it was like a cultural gene, a packet of cultural information that can evolve as it's passed on. A melody, a joke format, a technology, a religious view...

I'm not sure what was so wrong with the word "idea", though...

[wub]

Dawkins also pounded Mr Garrison in the ass in South Park, who later did an episode on memes.

COINCIDENCE?

I think not.

[particle-jim]

richard dawkins must of been face palming solidly for the last 10 years

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Indeed

I don't get it

The word meme is a shortening (modeled on gene) of mimeme and it was coined by the British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (1976) as a concept for discussion of evolutionary principles in explaining the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena. Examples of memes given in the book included melodies, catch-phrases, fashion, and the technology of building arches.

I don't think Dawkins had this stupid crap in mind when he coined that phrase:

[Terpit]

[Terpit]

not that bad

[Laszlo]

Thanks for the explanation, guys!

[Mason]

rustled monkey is the best thing on the internet

[ascent]

i will admit i love this also

[Genevieve]

lol the anti-meme crew only focusing on reddit/9gag/4chan et al as if dsf doesn't have it's own memes and in-jokes...

This isn't "anti-memes", even the video wasn't (though the guy was a whiny prick for going "BUT I'M NOT UNIQUE ANYMORE WHEN OTHER PPPLE KNOW MY MEMES "). It's constantly being relentlessly subjected to the same contextless joke by brainless hordes of internet uses.

Injokes are aiight. And when you recontexualize them later they can be funny. But are you really going to defend plastering the web full of images of that ugly fucking "grumpy cat" with yet ANOTHER caption implying that he is, in fact, grumpy, as something funny? You think people having conversation with nothing but internet quotes ("seems legit", "tits or gtfo") are sharing topnotch comedy?

[Today]

but things like "m7," "ISHYGDDT" and "can i get that on an apron?" are actual memes

These things are just drawings... using one to reflect an idea and having a bunch of other people understand what you meant, that's a meme.

on their own they're just over-used drawings

[skimpi]

"ISHYGDDT"

Isnt that a Joy Orbison track?

[Today]

its an acronym