Memes

[hugh]

You guys think about these things waaaaayyyy tooo much. And also seem way too aware of your outside perceptions etc etc.
Basically, if you don't like it, who cares. If you do, good. But no need to write a thesis on the fucking subject matter. It's even more vapid than the "memes" themselves.

[nameless133]

Don't call them memes. Just cancer. Idiot people using them without knowing what are them. I'm fuckin angry.

[EliteLennon117]

lol @ calling internet memes cancer. if u don't like them then don't look for them or go to sites that show them all the time. simple innit?

[nameless133]

It1s not simple cuz pepol spammin erryhere dem.

[orangeluva56]

who >>>/mu/ here?

[Phigure]

I go to mu when I want to talk about death grips, otherwise it's entirely waste

[particle-jim]

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?

that wasn't my point at all mate, I don't find that shit particularly funny either, was just saying I found it kinda amusing that people were complaining about some memes without noting that a lot of what gets said on here is just memes

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

Precisely

[dickman69]

who >>>/mu/ here?

/mu/ is shit

i do go on /sp/ occasionally tho

[nitz]

is 'chat shit get banged' DSF's meme? or just nicked?

[Kochari]

This just came up pon my Facebook:

having a conversation expressed in memes,coolest thing ever ♥

Saved only by the fact that someone else posted this underneath:

[Genevieve]

that wasn't my point at all mate, I don't find that shit particularly funny either, was just saying I found it kinda amusing that people were complaining about some memes without noting that a lot of what gets said on here is just memes

Nah, it's in the video. It's not the meme itself that is the problem. In-jokes are memes too and some are abused and overused here too (3mb3rs breaks got old fast tbh. There was just so little you could do with it). But we all know the joke, we laugh about it because we know why it's funny and typically, we don't have conversations with those memes. So when a well-placed 'chat shit get banged' is dropped, it's funny because of its history and the way it was applied.

What the video said is that all those big modern memes that take up the whole internet turn into contextless jokes. That's what my 'Big Bang Theory' analogy was about. People don't know why it's funny, but they're told when to laugh with the laughing track. The 'global' memes are just words, phrases, pictures that no one gets, that have a big shiny sticker on them that says 'Laugh now'. And without thought, they flood the whole internet and are rather unavoidable.

And here on DSF, you can avoid memes much more easily if you want to. If you're sick of DSF, you can browse at some other place. With those other memes, you don't have much of a choice.

[DRTY]

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

Underrated reply.

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...

he's working on a new book about it, The Selfish Meme

[hugh]

that wasn't my point at all mate, I don't find that shit particularly funny either, was just saying I found it kinda amusing that people were complaining about some memes without noting that a lot of what gets said on here is just memes

Nah, it's in the video. It's not the meme itself that is the problem. In-jokes are memes too and some are abused and overused here too (3mb3rs breaks got old fast tbh. There was just so little you could do with it). But we all know the joke, we laugh about it because we know why it's funny and typically, we don't have conversations with those memes. So when a well-placed 'chat shit get banged' is dropped, it's funny because of its history and the way it was applied.

What the video said is that all those big modern memes that take up the whole internet turn into contextless jokes. That's what my 'Big Bang Theory' analogy was about. People don't know why it's funny, but they're told when to laugh with the laughing track. The 'global' memes are just words, phrases, pictures that no one gets, that have a big shiny sticker on them that says 'Laugh now'. And without thought, they flood the whole internet and are rather unavoidable.

And here on DSF, you can avoid memes much more easily if you want to. If you're sick of DSF, you can browse at some other place. With those other memes, you don't have much of a choice.

tl;dr injokes are funny but don't try to join if you weren't there from the start

[DRTY]

true headz only

[hugh]

fun is bad

[Genevieve]

tl;dr injokes are funny but don't try to join if you weren't there from the start

More like, something is funny for a reason. Taking the reason out of the humor is like taking the punchline out of a joke.

[hugh]

Ok but I just wouldn't laugh. You don't need to explain why it's not funny.

[skimpi]

true headz only

i think you should be banned for posting a meme