nowadays we call those snowclones
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Meme meaning a thing that is funny is a meme
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memes rule everything around me
MREAM
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Memes came to be synonymous with jokes roughly around the same time memes stopped being funny at all. Pretty wild.
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In an alternate timeline, a synonym for joke is ‘vine’
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~Biggie voice~
IT WAS ALL A MEME
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i only encounter “meme humor” as a derisive reference e.g. to Undertale
Memes have mostly gone from largely absurdist image macros with humorous tweaks and influences to just shitty editorial-cartoon labeling of any picture to make a tired point you’ve read a thousand times, political or whatever, possibly with the heads of your favorite franchise characters pasted on them. They’re just boring declarative sentences now.
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oh god i used to see this descriptor all over /a/. it was like people were trying to come up with the dumbest possible way to out-cynical each other. “meme show”, “meme characters”, “meme animation” “meme writer” “meme director”
it was in the same disparaging sense you’d see in a phrase like “hah, looks like someone fell for the meme”
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I’d more or less forgotten there was this whole other axis where gamercomicsgatish turd-types were using “meme” in that disparaging way. We’re fighting over the meaning of every word on like 3 distinct fronts at all times.
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i believe the peak of it was “women are a meme”
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Years ago, somebody I know was responding to some conservative image meme that their dad had shared. They countered it saying it had false information and shared a huffington post article as evidence. Their dad responded “HUFFINGTON POST IS A MEME,” which is a detail that has crystallized in our collective memories.
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I love it
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Deus Ex predicted 9/11 AND the meme war.
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i love that the world-trade center is absent from the liberty island skybox because, the record goes, including them wast too costly for their resource budget on that level. It’s a beautifully paranoid coincidence.
posting my own videogame thing about deus ex. i quote this all the time.
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i also love that the explanation in the game is terrorism, which you find out just means poor people america victimizes
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I wonder if KC Green got paid for this.
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he confirmed on twitter he didnt even get asked
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