Maybe it's just me getting older, but I fail to see how this is a "meme"
Nowadays every fucking funny picture is a meme. Like apparently every photo that you are on is a selfie regardless of who took it. I hate it.
Malapropisms.
The battle is lost. I think we just have to accept it.
meme has evolved to just mean "funny thing", and like, do you have a better word for that? it's not a joke, and i'm not going to start saying "funny thing".
closest i can think of would be "a funny" which sounds worse than calling everything a meme
But that's what it is, a funny thing. Why can't that be said? Because this is absolutely not a meme, not by a stretch. This image won't be repurposed with different text, taking its meaning and applying it to a different context like memes do.
So because you can't summon the fortitude to say "funny thing", the whole community has to be flooded with garbage posts that are not memes in any way? That makes a ton of sense 👍
I agreed with your first comment, but now I think you may in fact be getting old.
It can be both things
I think it is. I'm not even that old but I've gone from nobody I knew IRL having ever heard the word to everyone knowing it but with a watered down meaning.
Maybe it's just me getting older, but I fail to see how this is a "meme"
Nowadays every fucking funny picture is a meme. Like apparently every photo that you are on is a selfie regardless of who took it. I hate it.
Malapropisms.
The battle is lost. I think we just have to accept it.
meme has evolved to just mean "funny thing", and like, do you have a better word for that? it's not a joke, and i'm not going to start saying "funny thing".
closest i can think of would be "a funny" which sounds worse than calling everything a meme
But that's what it is, a funny thing. Why can't that be said? Because this is absolutely not a meme, not by a stretch. This image won't be repurposed with different text, taking its meaning and applying it to a different context like memes do.
So because you can't summon the fortitude to say "funny thing", the whole community has to be flooded with garbage posts that are not memes in any way? That makes a ton of sense 👍
I agreed with your first comment, but now I think you may in fact be getting old.
It can be both things
I think it is. I'm not even that old but I've gone from nobody I knew IRL having ever heard the word to everyone knowing it but with a watered down meaning.