Remember getting the newspaper and flipping straight to the memes page? Or going to the meme book store? Or getting up early to watch the Saturday memes on TV?
It sounds stupid because comics and cartoons aren’t memes.
A comic or a cartoon could express a meme, just like anything else. Not in this case, though.
Most people just see “meme” as “a funny picture with text on it”, so a comic fits right in there. Technically speaking, most things posted as memes aren’t memes, but people are too lazy to separate these things out. And really, why should they?
Remember getting the newspaper and flipping straight to the memes page? Or going to the meme book store? Or getting up early to watch the Saturday memes on TV?
It sounds stupid because comics and cartoons aren’t memes.
A comic or a cartoon could express a meme, just like anything else. Not in this case, though.
Most people just see “meme” as “a funny picture with text on it”, so a comic fits right in there. Technically speaking, most things posted as memes aren’t memes, but people are too lazy to separate these things out. And really, why should they?
Imaging being a person that gatekeeps memes of all things anyway.
Imagine giving a remote fuck about this and getting all worked up enough to comment on it
Imagine not giving a fuck about filling out other communities that need more content in favor of having a garbage dump for everything.
I apologize for wanting to see the Fediverse grow into a fully fleshed out group of instances with active communities.
I dunno you seem to be contributing plenty of trash to the garbage dump yourself
Hurr hurr look how clever we are…
Memes are stored in the balls
Nothing has changed. We have kept the tradition constant.