edit: now it’s a meme and we can all hug in the comments.
Not funny.
Not a meme.
Quality needs to be enforced, I know “funny” is subjective but everyone can see this is not a meme so it shouldn’t even be here.
Approximately 99% of stuff that gets posted here are not memes. I think you’re fighting a losing battle here.
Oh I know, but even if there’s a very little chance, things won’t get better if nobody complains.
ITT: people butthurt about some random guy hoping there would be memes in a meme community.
Congrats, we are already as shitty as reddit.You know I was looking at some of the architecture down town today and thought to myself, “just think, none of this would be possible if there wasn’t someone critiquing mud huts 10000 years ago.”
Can we, without relentlessly criticizing, let people have their un-funny, non-memes and screenshots and whatever little harmless things in which they’ve managed to find a tiny shriveled flower of joy?
FINE.
What are the essential criteria of a meme in your view?
I would say a Twitter post isn’t one. At least scribble on an image of some.kind.
Okay, I’ve edited it so we should all be happy now
👍
Whew! All clear, it’s a meme. Pack it up, people.👮♂️👮♀️
IMHO an idea that spreads person to person, not just PSAs that are unlikely to be shared further.
So the avocado face on the bottom right of this image IS a meme. And if this Tweet turns into a copypasta, then it’s a meme.
I’ve seen this particular tweet like a dozen times now, so it’s definitely spread far and wide. Some people only think of image macros as memes, but yes the broader definition I’ve seen is essentially a viral concept.
Could we, without relentlessly criticizing, let people have… whatever little harmless things in which they’ve managed to find a tiny shriveled flower of joy?
Did you even SEE the avocado with a face? Meme.
/s if needed…
Reminds me of where I used to live, Reddit.
It’s being spread through communication - It’s a meme. Memes don’t have to be funny.
You’re 100% right. But I’ve seen comics and tweets do well here, so this post isn’t going against the norm
yes I posted stuff that doesn’t fit the community but everyone else is doing it
The community of users collectively decides what does and doesn’t belong here
It’s called “Memes” dude, you post memes here.
Yep. Came for the memes. Unsubscribed for the other shit.
If there was some other place to post that would get the same traction I’d gladly put it there. But its not really that big of a deal at the end of the day
That’s what I expect a pumpkin spice in September enjoyer to say.
Sips apple cider
But it will be (already noticeable), people post whatever, people upvote blindly and we end up having a meme community without memes and we were already at low quality so it just keeps getting lower.
I know people crave upvotes for some reason, but this only makes a community lame and worth ignoring.All hail the meme god! Decider of what is and isn’t a meme!
You’re a Reddit refugee aren’t you
Somebody should make a movie around this message of jaded adults refinding their humanity in an absurd, hyperconsumerist world through the rejection of cynicism and embracing of liking things again, but cleverly disguise it as a movie made to sell plastic dolls to little girls to play on the concept of hyperconsumerism.
I think this hypothetical movie will be a smashing success in the box office. And probably win the lead actress an Oscar this year.
I absolutely agree, I think you ahem that lead actress should win an Oscar.
But I think it’s important that we don’t let enjoying things become synonymous with liking (mindless purchasing) the corporate products that are being sold to us at a breakneck pace.
What ways do we have to still create our own ways to have fun? How can we make our own “weird barbies”?
The difference is that you should enjoy things not because nothing matters in this world (that would be hedonism.), but because the world matters to you, and you will fight to make it better.
There comes a point in everybody’s life where they are faced with their own mortality and finally figure out what they are meant to do. None of us will be here forever, so, I think we should use our short time on this Earth to fight for a world where everyone is free to find their way in life, and be themselves again.
Kinda vague, but everyone is different, so, everyone will have to figure it out on their own.
I really like your first sentence. Great take, thanks for sharing.
I’d like to think even as a jaded adult this isn’t just an impersonation.
And I assume the Ken dance off scene is an allegory to the obliteration of the ego resulting in self reflection?
Ok if you had the opportunity to make Ryan Gosling do a dumb song and dance number you would have done the same thing.
It’s funny for actors to play against type because it’s unexpected. Like Leslie Nielsen in “Airplane!”, for example.
Totally irrelevant to your comment, keep up the strike and hold the line! Assuming you’re the real Margot Robbie and have a prolific platform. I know it’s not fair, especially to the less recognizable members but a lot of other people who are thinking about unionizing are watching the WGA and SAG strikes to see if labour can still win. It’s not just you guys, we’re all with you. Even if they’re too stupid to realize this strike is more important than a new season of NCIS. Labour winning this strike proves that labour isn’t out of the fight and capital hasn’t completely won. Stay strong! Hold the line!
Thank you.
I don’t mind people putting up decorations early, it’s when stores swap out their seasonal stock early that triggers me
Last year local Home Depot started clearancing out Halloween decorations to make room for Christmas stuff in September.
Halloween is the only good holiday. It is the only one that maintains any connection to it’s pre modern roots. It is about giving candy to children for free fuck capitlaism. It is about enjoying everything society says is wrong. It requires some creativity in ways most people don’t get to experience the rest of the year. It invites experimentation and self expression.
If I hear Christmas music before at least November, I will go nuclear
completely agree. people can have their decorations whenever and whatever else their heart desires, but i draw the line at christmas music
Let people not like things.
You’re welcome to dislike something, but that doesn’t mean you need to discourage someone else from liking that thing. You can share an opinion without making it sound like it’s a sin against nature to disagree with that opinion.
Then how else am I supposed to feel superior compared to everyone else if I don’t impose my standards on them? I’m just trying to help them. It’s like you want to live in a world where people don’t know they’re loosers. That’s dumb, you’re dumb. /s
That’s quite literally sounds like a close family member.
I can discourage or encourage whatever I want. I didn’t elect you king of the discourse or agree to your rules
Nor did I elect you king of what I’m allowed to enjoy. Go ahead and police people’s thoughts if you insist, but don’t expect to be included by people you willfully offend.
“Discourage” and “disallow” are two different things.
Go ahead and police people’s thoughts if you insist, but don’t expect to be included by people you willfully offend.
I will, and you can’t exclude me lmao. Deal with it, you have to deal with critiques and disagreements, how terrible for you
people you willfully offend.
Lmao anyone offended because someone criticised their latest marvel slop or videogame deserves to be their head shoved in a toilet.
Criticizing things is fine but there is in fact a line where you become the asshole for doing it too hard or in a bad faith way. Or targeting individual people (particularly minors). The PSL thing is a good example because while we can criticize the comedication of it, some of the discourse around it is really misogynistic.
I literally don’t care about being an asshole, that’s fine. I can criticize whatever I want
You should probably care about things like misogyny and harassing minors lol. Which is what my post was about.
Making up something I’m not doing to get mad about
I wasn’t accusing you of it. We aren’t in DMs right now. It was a general statement about something I think is true, that people can use "criticizing things’ as a guise for assholishness and even bigotry. Not saying you’re doing that.
If intolerant bigots could read that they’d be very upset
Edit: and here they come to out themselves
bigotry and intolerance are when you criticize my treats
These people want a perfect protected treat echo chamber where they can consoom disney shit endlessly without anyone troubling them with “critiques” or “disagreement”
Jokes on you. I think Disney is releasing shit after shit release
And you should be able to say that as loudly and as often as you like!
Eh that depends. The reactionary ragebait Youtubers who do this should all be thrown into a pit together and I’m suspicious of anyone echoing certain talking points about certain media because of them.
Wow why you yukking Disney’s yum?
Sorry but I like [thing] and therefore [thing] must be held inviolate from even the mildest criticism.
What criticism even is there against PSLs and Halloween decorations??
PSLs are gross, overly sugarladen drinks and emblematic of both crass consumerism and America’s obsession with unhealthy food. Halloween decorations are gaudy and an eyesore and also emblematic of crass consumerism, while also representing a non-trivial amount of non-biodegradable plastic waste that just winds up buried in landfills every year.
Ahh yes, the classic emblem of America’s crass consumerism checks notes flavored coffee.
PSLs and Halloween decorations are bourgeois decadance, clearly.
lattes are french and therefore bourgeois, real proles drink black coffee or take trucker pills.
I just want to end misspelling “avocado” .
It’s like “Gandhi”. Seems like freaking no one on the internet knows how to spell that name.
Ghandi?
Gone-dee
I once turned in a project on that very individual at secondary school in which I had his name misspelled the entire way through.
It did not go well.
You had me until the too early decorations. The other things don’t take away my joy. That does.
Also harm isn’t why people care. Its the erosion of well defined seasons in order to push corporate products on us and in the end we get fucked up melding of events like remembrance day while people are preoccupied trying to get Christmas shopping in.
It turns what was once cultural events into corporate buy shit quarters. Because its easier for Walmart to sell Christmas stuff in October then wait until it’s the season.
Its a loss and erosion of an important shared culture in favor of only corporate sponsored ones.
How does me putting an inflatable grim reaper in my yard in February take away your joy?
Nfi but this comment just brought me great joy. I’m grinning.
But what about the shriveled flower of joy I get from shitting on their happiness
Suffer.
We already are…that’s kinda the point.
Sigh
I’ll go set up the trolley. You wait for me by the track switcher.
Ill tie up some bystanders I guess…
It is a lie. Reject false happiness. Enjoy the community of helping your fellow worker.
This is humanity, there will be no joy! ☝️
Wild how happiness only seems to exist in commodities
Exactly my thoughts: work, consume, die.
What a fucking miserable fate for a human life.
At the end of the day, we’re still animals that like to fancy ourselves smart.
Exactly. It’s the animal parts of our nature that we should be relentlessly chasing.
Love, sex, dancing, laughing. To see the sun rise and watch it set again on a cool autumn day. To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.
Wow, that devolved quickly.
Many of you can’t recite the 1982 masterpiece Conan the Barbarian by heart and it shows.
The drug cartels receive a substantial amount of money from avocado production (weird but apparently true)
Cinnamon is carcinogenic
Many fandoms have a disturbingly sexual element (especially my little pony)
Halloween is a celebration of consumerism, microplastics and diabetes.
I’m sure there’s a dark side to d&d but I can’t think of it right now.
You’re welcome
I’m sure there’s a dark side to d&d but I can’t think of it right now.
It’s satan.
Source: I grew up in the 80s.
Praise satan!
Cinnamon is carcinogenic??? You know what, I don’t care. I love cinnamon, and this propaganda won’t change my mind. I’m going to plug my ears and go “lalalalalala”
As far as I can tell, there isn’t any evidence for this in humans. Enjoy your cinnamon.
oh is it one of those “feed a mouse ungodly amounts of the substance to see if it causes cancer” studies?
Oh those are my favorite. “We gave a mouse 3x it’s body weight in this substance and it got cancer. This must be carcinogenic!”
Thank you, I will!
So I had to look that up and ask a friend versed in nutrition. Apparently no adverse findings wrt Ceylon cinnamon yet.
That’s why your body rejects eating a spoon full of cinnamon as seen in that stupid challenge a few years ago.
WEF tried to depopulate the western countries with that viral meme
I really wish they’d find a plan that works
I wish they’d come up with a plan that works for once
My uncle roger keeps thwarting them though
You forgot the sugar levels of pumpkin spice, which make Mountain Dew look like a health drink.
So i can enjoy one guilt free?
Pocket sand, you’ve been upgraded to pocket cinnamon
Many fandoms have a disturbingly sexual element (especially my little pony)
Huh?
May I introduce you to Rule 34?
Rofl. I’m so relieved. I thought this was going to e akin to “teletubbies are infecting our children with a gay agenda!”
May I introduce you to Rule 34?
I found my tiny shriveled flower of joy in being a hater. Today’s target: people who upvoted this garbage. The fuck is wrong with you? It’s not a meme and it’s not funny, it doesn’t belong on this community, and it’s so sanctimonious it gave me diarrhea.
Tomorrow’s target: people who push all their furniture up against the wall
Thursday’s target: Scots
Upvoted Taddington. Hope ur ok hun
The problem here is that all of these people have turned their consumer choices into their identities and thus they feel personally attacked whenever they hear criticism of the products they consume.
It’s incredibly unhealthy and something everyone should work to weed out of their mindset if they want to grow as a person instead of being perpetually unhappy because others criticising things isn’t going anywhere.
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Serious.
If you are seriously annoyed by any of these things, then it should be a reminder of how unburdened and care free your life is that such a thing actually bugs you, and spark a sense of pride and contentment instead.
This is the way.
