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I kinda made this post out of spite for the fact the most previous post in this community, whose title I quoted/copied, was getting so many downvotes… At the time I posted this, the previous post had about a 30% downvote rate, and it really, really made me mad.
I am relieved tho to see people in the comments here who have real, actual empathy for their fellow humans. Thank you for contributing here.
It blows my mind how normalized it is to hate on those who are struggling. Especially in 20fucking23 when so many of us now are on the verge of it ourselves. Let’s be better, everyone - to everyone. I beg you.
Yes, memes are viral thoughts, often utilizing fun to spread, but not necessarily so.
It baffles me that anybody today would say memes aren’t or shouldn’t be political. I think politics and ideology are the primary reason people create and share memes today. The funny animal cheeseburger phase of meme culture is long over. As witness Reddit meming Trump into office and all the racist conservative memes your boomer relatives share.
I don’t think it’s a meme but not because of politics.
I think someone else would have to put their own twist on it for it to really count to me.
Otherwise literally everything anyone posts ever is a meme.
That’s how Dawkins originally intended it, interestingly. It’s been completely redefined in popular parlance, but a meme is originally any transmissable unit of information between minds.
And Blackmore!
Fair enough