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So first comics were memes. Then screenshots from twitter were memes. Now jokes and puns are memes...
This is outright stupid.
You do understand what a meme is... Right?
meme
/mēm/
noun
an image, video, piece of text, etc., typically humorous in nature, that is copied and spread rapidly by internet users, often with slight variations.
an element of a culture or system of behavior passed from one individual to another by imitation or other nongenetic means.
verb
Oh big brains with the dictionary definition... Most everyone on here has grown up with the birth and evolution of Internet memes. The term meme has existed longer than the internet. Don't feed me the patronizing bullshit of the dictionary definition. That's not what internet memes were, or are.
I don't read the Sunday memes in the newspaper. I don't watch comedy memes on TV. Twitter posts are called tweets, not memes. Facebook posts are called posts. News stories are called stories. Normal pictures/photos are called pictures/photos. Puns are puns. Jokes are jokes.
Communities exist for every single one of these. And that's where each of them should go, especially since all of these communities need traffic and content.
You know damn well what anyone mentioning a meme they saw is referring to, and it ain't your bullshit dictionary definition. Get off your high horse because I'm not buying your holier-than-thou shit.
If you like garbage dump, catch-all shitfests then go back to reddit. Lemmy communities still have a chance to be better, and I'll be damned if I'm going to sit by and watch it happen here too, much less put up with self-righteous assholes who think copy-pasting a dictionary definition gives them a position.
That's a whole lot of text to say no
Your answer has the same amount of effort the posts in this community do. Congratulations.