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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.


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[–] [email protected] 43 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago

Gonna delete that boot sector then

No boot sector? No boot sector corruption

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 days ago (4 children)

When I was a tween (or almost) someone developed a beef with a local sysop and started posting, "WE HAD A DEAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" over and over on the BBS's graffiti wall that you saw at login. It became a local meme and people started posting it everywhere in the local calling zone for no particular reason. It was the first sort of flash event I saw, and a significant development in the local culture I was in, but today that culture has been entirely destroyed, and it's a weird thing I don't share with anyone. But it always comes to mind as though it might be relevant, and never is.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Exactly. Every time I see the phrase, I want to go all "disco ball".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I’m trying to help make it a thing for you buddy 👍🏻

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If you're going to make something a thing for me, please make it en flique.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Wow, you have absolutely captured the spirit of the thing. Nostalgic!!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Becoming a local meme on local internet had to be so much worse than it is today. No gen alpha child will understand the pain of getting dunked on by all 10 of the people that had a computer near you

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

System Operator. In non-nerd speak, it was the person who owned and ran the local public fourms website on their home computer. Lemmys instance admins are usually sysops for example, as they have root admin privleges or direct hardware access to the computer that the Lemmy instance software runs on.

This person is talking about an admin of a local fourm site early internet users used before centralized social media like MySpace and Facebook made Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) irrelevant.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Thank you for the detailed explanation. I also had no idea what BBS was.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Was it also spammed in L.O.R.D. as well?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Didn't exist yet.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So she wants to go to jail if she wakes up with a headache?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

When she says she wants to be dominated and you find out what she really means

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

I love how for me the next post is something about exposing vulnerabilities that could allow hackers to take control of your system. I just like the idea of some guy on a computer hacking peoples headaches. See guys? The vaccines WERE an evil plot by microsoft to put microchips in our brains and BUY TESLA!!! ALWAYS OBEY! NEVER THINK FOR YOURSELF! TELL YOURSELF YOU'RE AN ALPHA LEADER, BUT REALLY YOU JUST FOLLOW THE PACK! USE X/TWITTER!

......whoa, I passed out there. What happened? And why do I still have a headache? I thought I took a nap. Or....blacked out. Whatever.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I was going to say to drink some water. Both would probably be good.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Drinking water should always be the first thing you do. Too many dehydrated dummies suffering out there because "water has no taste".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

No joke, sometimes constipation causes headaches. Gut health is super important for well being.

[–] ulterno 1 points 4 days ago

Another one is air quality.

If you are breathing in too many undesirable aerosols when you sleep, you are not getting better, but worse.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Chronic pain sufferers: "First time?"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (4 children)

That account and their timeline make them look like a bot

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm not a bot, but I'm often too shy to reply after I post stuff. Just happy to share stuff I find funny or interesting

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago

I think they meant ppyowna the OOP

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Could be. A lot of bots take good posts and post them as their own.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

You definitely looked it up for horndog reasons but you got me to look for no other reason, and holy crap!

Not only are they definitely a bot, so we are just reposting LLM slop?, but all of the replies to her in every post are verified people who are most certainly also bots.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Usually these accounts are “subtle” onlyfans bait.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

It does work like 75%+ of the time for me. With those chances a nap is always worth the risk.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Why is every twitter screen grab always posted from some thot

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Catches the eye