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"meme" used to mean "bit that gets repeated and modified over time" then it meant "picture of an animal or something with impact font text overtop" and now it just means "joke"

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Blues Traveler #1 Fan's avatar Blues Traveler #1 Fan @green-gjeans.bsky.social
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Ben Zimmerman's avatar Ben Zimmerman @benzim.bsky.social
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Le same

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TV's Brent's avatar TV's Brent @tvsbrent.bsky.social
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this is a great meme

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Chair of the Sewer Maintenance Board's avatar Chair of the Sewer Maintenance Board @sidewalkslam.bsky.social
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Morey Amsterdam sitting down with his cello and telling the audience here are some good memes I picked up in Schenectady

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Coolbone Minoxidil's avatar Coolbone Minoxidil @dingokayfabe.bsky.social
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Language is a rock tumbler ever polishing down the edges of meaning

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Discordia Comic Shop's avatar Discordia Comic Shop @discordiacomicshop.bsky.social
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It is direly important that people distinguish between MEMES and LULZ, which of course, they never do.

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Moderately Grouchy's avatar Moderately Grouchy @moderately-grouchy.bsky.social
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It all started with Snow Crash and the notion of a platform-independent virus. (The human brain being just another platform.)

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the high smiler's avatar the high smiler @absolutepinnacle.bsky.social
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The descriptivists will never drag my corpse off this hill

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Joseph Hewitt's avatar Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com
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So... meme is meme.

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RonarsCorruption(He/Him)'s avatar RonarsCorruption(He/Him) @ronarscorruption.bsky.social
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So, memes have in fact become... a meme, by being memed?

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Salty 🇵🇸 🇵🇸's avatar Salty 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 @nacl.sh
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because of woke

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Paula's avatar Paula @dentonitis.bsky.social
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Ah so that's why I'm uncomfortable labeling something as such. I'm never really sure what exactly it means.

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Angelo Zanola's avatar Angelo Zanola @angelozanola.bsky.social
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It does make Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty funnier.

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Sherlockdown Stayholmes (fuzzy swamp witch era)'s avatar Sherlockdown Stayholmes (fuzzy swamp witch era) @shrlckdwnsthlms.bsky.social
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memrception 3000!

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Eirian Robotto's avatar Eirian Robotto @eirianrobotto.bsky.social
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It can also mean trend

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Mr Dr Bae's avatar Mr Dr Bae @dallas-taylor.bsky.social
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When I was in college, it was an academic term that meant something like 'unit of meaning'.

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Pyrholidon Enthusiast ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 's avatar Pyrholidon Enthusiast ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) @pyrholidon.bsky.social
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people used to have wars over calling something a meme because it was forced vs happening organically

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As A Dog-man ☭'s avatar As A Dog-man ☭ @scooterdavis.bsky.social
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I think at this point it's any content not written out into full sentences

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Glen's avatar Glen @vaguebiscuit.bsky.social
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I'd be annoyed about it butnI just love how much it annoys Richard Dawkins and anything I can do to make his life just a tiny but worse, I will do

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Emperor Aardvark's avatar Emperor Aardvark @emperoraardvark.bsky.social
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explains why my parents call me a meme now

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It doesn't even mean joke anymore, it just means "opinion but on an image format." Been like this for years now and I hate it.

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Mike Puterbaugh's avatar Mike Puterbaugh @mike.puterbaugh.net
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Its definition evolving just proves meme is a meme!

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FakeAndres's avatar FakeAndres @andres.rive.ro
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I think it's zoomers that made that last leap. Way more common with younger people for sure

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Josh Drescher's avatar Josh Drescher @joshdrescher.bsky.social
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If it’s any consolation, I am confident that this drives Richard Dawkins up the wall.

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