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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.


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[–] [email protected] 64 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I have privacy concerns about this meme

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago

Hm. I wonder what the lack of any sort of punctuation at all says about you.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 7 months ago

Fuuuuuuuck I hate how real this is >.<

[–] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago

I never understood how human I was until I saw this meme and realized we all basically do this.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago (4 children)

WHAT IF I USE ALL CAPS ALL THE TIME?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Old, unhinged, or both‽

That's why I only use interrobangs‽ Keep everyone guessing‽

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago

YOU MONSTER‽

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

dude using interrobangs is a fucking power move

[–] [email protected] 37 points 7 months ago (5 children)

I'm going....to use random ellipses...everywhere. What does it....mean? Idk....but too many people....do it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

God I hate it. I pause every ellipses automatically in my head so I'm reading that much slower and it makes me angry.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I do it in specific instances where I want to express a pause, like "that was....ok?" I also use it when I want what I'm saying to come off as annoyed. "The shipment was late, again..."

I actually worry about exclamation points because I use them like OPs image, but I always worry people take it as yelling or something lol

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

Quickest way to get ignored.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

It's cruise control for cool.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I'm using a question mark because I'm unsure of myself?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm ending this with an exclamation point because I like to subvert expectations.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I'm ending with three exclamation points because I know what you did...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

I always assume people who end statements with question marks talk like David from Schitt's Creek?

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My autistic brain goes „WTF? Why would anyone do this?“ then proceeds to write incredibly long paragraphs with multiple statements wrapped into one, long sentence, using punctuation just to separate thoughts.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

All this thoughtful and unambiguous use of punctuation builds in me the irrepressible temptation to foster uncertainty by ending this sentence with nothing but an emphasis

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Hahahaha I like it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (3 children)

And occasionally throw a ~ at the end of a sentence

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Remember 🤔 to 🌸 use 🌺 emojis 😏to convey 🚜 your 👔 message 💌 with 🫂 extra 🧀 clarity 🥖and 🍯finesse 🙏

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Are you a Windows temporary file name?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

That's some good nerd humor I tell you hwhat

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (9 children)

Kind of just more evidence that reducing human conversation into writing is reducing human communication to at most a handful of perceivable factors instead of the countless ways in which humans (and animals in general) communicate.

In other words, if it wasn’t already obvious the internet is corrosive to humanity.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

I agree that text is poor in conveying intent, tone, etc. but text predates the internet by... at least a couple years (I'd have to check)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The oldest written text I've found in three seconds of research in contained in this ancient meme, which is believed to have originated in the early days of the internet. So while it's not enough to disprove your claim, it seems to suggest that text and internet actually started roughly at the same time, possibly building on top of each other.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

See this is why I love Lemmy. There's always an academic around to point you in the right direction. Cheers !

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Actually the internet supports audio and video. If anything that's evidence that newspapers, books, and really everything before TV and radio is corrosive to human communication. Well that and text based forums like this are corrosive.

Just because a medium isn't perfect doesn't make it corrosive. The problem here is the way human brains deal with things, not the things themselves. TV and video also cause loads of problems, because people treat them as too real. It's a balance really.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

TIL every great work of literature is corrosive to humanity. Guess I’ll burn my bookshelf.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I got called out for sending just "ha" too much.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm the exact opposite. I respond with "ah" a lot.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

By our powers combined, we are: a detective

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

The old Abba

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

i only use the exclamation mark for happy birthday and congratulations

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Happy birthday,

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

I feel seen! And I don't have a problem with it. It's fine. I like writing this way!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I dislike this

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

This is the house style at my job too

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