The meme thread
Re: The meme thread
I thoroughly enjoy most internet memes, and if you don't like them you shouldn't have come to this topic.
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Re: The meme thread
I see what you are saying Turkey...but I would argue (which actually I think you are saying too?) that generally in good memes there is a relevance of the picture to the text.
Examples: redneck randal (has the clearly redneck and hostile looking hick) usually with text that is a quote you could actually believe the person in the picture would say.
Example of bad meme: on this forum when people are using condescending willy wonka with the text "that's what she said". That is incorrect yews of the meme
And all of the other images that I see people post with an image + any random text does not make it a meme, and I don't think anyone is claiming those ones are memes...like the cookie monster one above me. In that case it's just a picture, not a meme.
Examples: redneck randal (has the clearly redneck and hostile looking hick) usually with text that is a quote you could actually believe the person in the picture would say.
Example of bad meme: on this forum when people are using condescending willy wonka with the text "that's what she said". That is incorrect yews of the meme
And all of the other images that I see people post with an image + any random text does not make it a meme, and I don't think anyone is claiming those ones are memes...like the cookie monster one above me. In that case it's just a picture, not a meme.
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–noun
1. guarding; protecting: a guardian deity.
2. a violent, tropical, cyclonic storm of the western North Atlantic, having wind
speeds of or in excess of 72 mph (32 m/sec).
3. (in Gnosticism) one of a class of powers or beings conceived as emanating
from the Supreme Being and performing various functions in the operations of
the universe.
4. a terrifying dream in which the dreamer experiences feelings of helplessness,
extreme anxiety, sorrow, etc.
5. The sensation and muscular spasm caused by an electric current passing
through the body or a body part.
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Re: The meme thread
Case in point:GUARD!AN wrote:And all of the other images that I see people post with an image + any random text does not make it a meme, and I don't think anyone is claiming those ones are memes...like the cookie monster one above me. In that case it's just a picture, not a meme.
Meme
as compared to:
Picture/Screenshot/What-Have-You
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Re: The meme thread
This. I don't think 3/4ths of the images I post are memes.Turquoise Dragon wrote:Case in point:GUARD!AN wrote:And all of the other images that I see people post with an image + any random text does not make it a meme, and I don't think anyone is claiming those ones are memes...like the cookie monster one above me. In that case it's just a picture, not a meme.
Meme
as compared to:
Picture/Screenshot/What-Have-You
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Re: The meme thread
On rare occasions I even make my own images to post (ie, my "JKA Caliber: serious business picture from a few years ago.) I don't think those are memes either. Just pictures.
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Re: The meme thread
A group of my freinds are actually attempting to make one by having this go viral.
