Why is this so common on Lemmy? It is not a meme to post a screenshot comment section. It might be funny but it isn't a meme
This is why I joined this community
meme
noun
/miːm/
an idea that is passed from one member of society to another, not in the genes but often by people copying it
(Oxford learner's dictionaries)
As told by our Lord an Saviour, Richard Dawkins
The Oxford dictionary is made by a bunch of old English nerds. They couldn't find a meme if it was glued to a telephone pole
Yeah I'm not going to let the English language be shaped or solidified by people who have dedicated their lives to studying and deeply understanding language!
To your credit, language is indeed an ever-evolving thing and what words mean what is not a constant, particularly in this age of internet.
Point against you, is that means that a 'meme' is largely whatever the majority of people think it is.
You're totally wrong!
They could find a meme if it were glued to a telephone pole. They'd just need a team of undergraduates, semanticians, and a box of jelly babies to fully assess the nature of the item before declaring it a meme or not.
Cool meme!
That is actually a meme though, it's an idea that spreads.
It's just a meme you don't like
It is very much not a meme. If they added something to it like Obi wan or Shriek it would but just some random screenshot does not count
The term you're confusing with meme is image macro.
What im talking about is literally the definition of a meme, you're talking about your idea of meme and you seem somewhat attached to it. That's fine, but that is definitely not what a meme is, im sorry
:P
Awesome meme!
A meme is just something funny that you share, so anything someone finds funny and posts online or shares with one friend is sharing memes.
A meme is just something
funnythat you share
By the technical definition, it doesn't even have to be funny, it only needs to be quickly sharable
Most of the memes come from communities where the typical user is way too comfortable with things like photoshop, so they can crank out a gag before it suddenly seems like a waste of time. Even the "slapped together" looking stuff takes longer than you think. This skill set - funny but also has casual graphic design skills - is narrow enough that even their throwaway jokes tend to get passed around and around and around for years.
This community is more, uh, engineering focused, so they're doing pretty good to find reasonably funny people to screenshot. For what it's worth, I agree with you, but the internet always has some tiresome gotcha post to shut you down with, lest you set any boundaries for yourself, so everyone's stuck with whatever people feel like calling a meme.
Now this is a good meme.
I wouldn't go that far
X is not a meme is not a meme.
Screenshots of text comments are all over the internet though. I used to think about it before coming here, but now I just take it as a normal.
It annoys me to no end
Cross post to mildly infuriating.
Ahhh, but a pet peeve is only useful when it is kept to one's self!
When you try to turn your pet peeve into a meme, that's proselytizing ;)
Gatekeeping meme, cool
Needs to be a picture of a monitor screen with the meme on it but taken with a potato so it's all blurry and shit.
I see Possibly Linux alot on ye ol Lemmy, sad to see they don't like memes 😕😔😒😞
but some has achieved meme status. you know the "Am i pregnat?" ones for example, and you can customize it as you need to fit your story or presenetation or whatever
You can't gatekeep what a meme is/isn't.
Yes I can
I thought a screenshot worked out fine
Lol, among everything that is happening in the world, that bothers you.
It does and I'm tired of pretending it doesn't
I would agree but we are so far past that now. Anything is a meme these days.
shut up, you jerk
The memes can be pretty cringe on here. Same with that lemmyshitpost community, I had to block that one because it was so bad.
Or, you could post “not cringe” memes yourself to those communities.