Yeah as someone who browses by all and came across this, I upvoted without realising the Community it’s in. But you’re right. This is in no way a meme.
Following the Internet definition of it? (Because we wouldn’t want to commit the etymological fallacy, would we?) It’s a piece of content that follows a known predictable format, or that at least appears to do so but subverts it. I don’t agree with @[email protected] that anything funny on the Internet is a meme, or even that memes need to be funny (though they usually are). But it’s certainly a notably different meaning from the broader cultural one that Dawkins came up with 50 years ago.
Wiktionary’s definition 2 is pretty good:
Media, usually humorous, which is copied and circulated online with slight adaptations, such as basic pictures, video templates, etc.
Oh yeah, good spot. I think it’s a little debatable since the actual meme part of this is rather small compared to the main content, which is Robert Inlakesh’s post. But Zachary Foster’s original post is definitely worthy of being called a meme.
Yeah as someone who browses by all and came across this, I upvoted without realising the Community it’s in. But you’re right. This is in no way a meme.
Most things called “memes” are not memes as the term was originally defined.
Every bit of information is a meme as the term was originally definition. Nowadays, the term means “something funny on the internet”.
What makes something a meme?
Following the Internet definition of it? (Because we wouldn’t want to commit the etymological fallacy, would we?) It’s a piece of content that follows a known predictable format, or that at least appears to do so but subverts it. I don’t agree with @[email protected] that anything funny on the Internet is a meme, or even that memes need to be funny (though they usually are). But it’s certainly a notably different meaning from the broader cultural one that Dawkins came up with 50 years ago.
Wiktionary’s definition 2 is pretty good:
The whole thing is presented in a meme format that usually consists of two non-meme panels.
knowyourmeme.com/memes/how-it-started-vs-how-its-going
Oh yeah, good spot. I think it’s a little debatable since the actual meme part of this is rather small compared to the main content, which is Robert Inlakesh’s post. But Zachary Foster’s original post is definitely worthy of being called a meme.
The meme format is like that, just a small bit, usually one line (and two panels of non-meme using up 90% of the space):
So Zachary posted a meme.
And Robert provided the microblog part.
Since the community is called Microblog Memes, both parts are needed as a technicality.
I’m not commenting on the quality of either tho, just that it technically fits rather perfectly.
I’ll also just point out that the rules of this community don’t actually say anything about “memes”. They say:
Yes, totally!