• ccunning@lemmy.world
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      There’s not too much difference between a meme and a single panel comic or political cartoon at this point.

      “Meme” had a much narrower definition not that long ago…

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      6 months ago

      Are you only allowed to like things that you liked when you were growing up?

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      Memes arent actually from the Internet, only this particular form of text on a picture meme is. And that particular style has historical precursors in actual physical newspapers.

      A good way to think of them is a shared in-joke repeated. If you and your friends keep making the same joke, that’s a meme. Yo mama jokes are a meme.

      The Wilhelm scream in films is a meme. It’s often used as a joke by sound designers and done so repeatedly by practically everyone in the industry.

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      Also memes are just equivalent to ‘in-jokes’ you have with your friends. I imagine it’s not possible to dislike all jokes entirely (save some neurodivergence I guess idk) but it’s normal to have preferences. I imagine you would need to find the right memes for you, or be part of the culture and communities where they’re coming from to help provide context.

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      You absolutely had memes growing up, they just weren’t called that at the time (or they were, but not popularized as such).

      Go read Richard Dawkins’ “Meme: The selfish gene” (1976)