If some image macros are meme.
And some meme are image macros.
Does that mean all image macros are meme?
Debate.
The term ‘image macro’ has largely fallen out of common parlance. It is a loss of distinction, but not necessarily a loss of functional speech. When people are talking about memes in the Dawkins sense, they know they aren’t talking about image macros, and when people talk about memes in the sense of internet comedy, they don’t get confused. The only confusion that arises is when someone is trying to explain Dawkins memes and has to dance around the fact that the term has been hijacked by the culture.
Dawkins is a smart guy, but "meme’ is his greatest contribution to the world
It’s nothing to sneeze at.
But what if I’m allergic?
A failed meme is still a meme.
The jug represents the simple pleasures of youth. Common to households across America, it would regularly be used to store a variety of sweetened beverages, from lemonade to iced tea to concentrated orange juice. The emptiness of the bottle signals the hollowness of nostalgia as we can only cling to the imagery even as we long for the sweetness within.
This meme reminds us that memes themselves are a throwback to a bygone day. In analyzing the symbolism, we seek to recreate the moment of blissful innocence. But we are bound by the chains of memory, able only to see but never touch the essence of the thing before us.
The text mostly just obstructs the image. You can ignore it.
I bet you excelled in your Literature classes.
I get the pitcher!
Oh pour it on why don’t you
I get it, the pitcher represents the dichotomy of good and evil!
I wrote a report on this in college. Anything can be a meme by definition. It’s the act of sharing images, from one to another, that is what makes it a meme. Because it’s memetic. The origin of meme.
Reciting newton’s newton’s principia mathematica could be considered a meme, as long as it’s shared from one individual to the next.
That’s the pitcher I use to refill my humidifier! Does the meme represent the dichotomy between humidifier in winter and lemonade in summer?
By selecting a seemingly unrelated image to the text, stating that the image doesn’t matter, you’ve actually associated a link to the text to prove your point, therefore making the previously unrelated image relevant. Checkmate atheists.
So they empty pitcher represents the emptiness of memes.
I have that Rubbermaid pitcher. Works well. Would buy again.
I was there when the first cheezburger was has’d. Cats were lol’d. Things have changed since then.
I do not call them “memes” anymore, I just say “look at this image” or “look this video”
But therin lies the definition of meme! Since you’re sharing something in a memetic pattern, you’ve fundamentally made the image or video a meme! :)
That’s my type of gravy boat.
me too thanks
