Please don’t tell me to get off of it, I have old Livejournal friends to keep in touch with and that’s why I’m there.

  • ximtor@lemmy.zip
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    5 days ago

    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.

      • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
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        4 days ago

        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.