OP saw this and was compelled to share it. It’s culturally relevant, as it speaks (perhaps satirically, perhaps seriously) about an aspect of human (more specifically: western online) culture.
It’s a meme. I don’t like it any more than you do but it IS definitionally a meme.
That’s why I tell people to loosen up when they complain that the format is being misused. If it works, it works. It is evolution.
I don’t like the look of snails any less than the rest of the general population do, but snails evolved the way they did because it works.
Since when do random low quality social media posts qualify as “meme”?-_-
A meme is a “self-propagating” unit of culture.
OP saw this and was compelled to share it. It’s culturally relevant, as it speaks (perhaps satirically, perhaps seriously) about an aspect of human (more specifically: western online) culture.
It’s a meme. I don’t like it any more than you do but it IS definitionally a meme.
That’s why I tell people to loosen up when they complain that the format is being misused. If it works, it works. It is evolution. I don’t like the look of snails any less than the rest of the general population do, but snails evolved the way they did because it works.
90% of “memes” nowadays aren’t memes.