Ask Lemmy

Well, maybe not the ONLY one, but an extreme minority probably.

Are you like old? "Kids and their new fangled me me's. Back in MY day we used the funnies in the NEWSPAPER to get a laugh" Kinda old?

I’m not sure it’s possible. There are good memes and bad memes, to say you don’t like memes in general doesn’t really make sense. If you see something funny with a picture and some words that resonates with you, you’ve enjoyed a meme. What you’re saying is you’ve seen things that you would find funny or relatable but because it was delivered in image and word form it’s no longer funny or relatable?

Why don't you like memes? Is it the format? The sense of humor? Keeping up with current trends? Saying you don't like memes is like saying you don't like jokes.

Like ALL of them?

There are some i don't think are funny, there are some that are just stupid, and there are some that I just don't understand.

So, I'm not a fan of any of those, but to hate ALL memes seems like it's based on an unjust bias in your brain.

Like if someone went to YouTube for the first time and watched a couple of those immature "bro, it's just a prank!" channels and decided that they hated all internet video creators.

To many of us, that sounds like "I don't like humor". I really don't get you.

yes

Yeah, probably.

No, I completely get where you're coming from. As a blind person, they are just terrible. Because instead of saying what people want to say, they just post this damn picture that I can't read and completely kills any conversation. I block all communities that I can for memes just because it's pointless for me to have them show up.

Really depends what you mean by "memes".

Back then things were more stringent and memes had fixed formats. The same set of pictures, posted over and over again with new text - I can see how one might dislike those. But nowadays the definition is kinda watered down and meme just boils down to "funny picture", even if they are only posted once. I don't think you can dislike those in their entirety without just disliking fun itself.

Yes. Something’s wrong with you

In the sense that they make up the vast majority of what is disseminated in our primary digital social spaces, are often pandering to a small set of intellectual properties that people use to define themselves, and end up shaping the way we then respond to the world around us in derivative, abbreviated ways that doesn't foster deep interaction? Kinda, yeah. It gets repetitive.

Blocking certain users and magazines helps. Unfortunately, and moreso in the fediverse, it doesn't unearth much else, tbh. It's just what we be doing in this era. I think there are a lot of societal factors influencing that.

At the same time, the right meme still gives me that dopamine hit. Big fan of greentexts, for example. So I don't dislike memes, per se. Just the glut of them.

What do you consider to be memes? Just images/image macros? Gifs? Videos? Copy pastas? Do you dislike all of these, or just some?

Generically, I'd say memes are essentially just widespread "internet culture" inside jokes. Disliking humor or inside jokes is definitely not the norm.

I'm sure you like some elements of a culture or system of behavior passed from one individual to another by imitation or other nongenetic means. Such as education or entertainment.

I used to hate them, so I understand where you’re coming from, but then I got a job at a company that uses Slack as its primary communications app, and memes and gifs became a genuinely joyful part of my day.

Some managers at my company communicate almost exclusively with gifs, which sometimes still annoys the hell out of me, but I have to keep reminding myself “Bertram, you have a good job, working with fun people who sometimes use too many gifs. It could be so so much worse.” And then I go back to laughing at the most absurdly ridiculous reaction gif my manager just sent as a response to a critical project delivery.

No. I don't care for them either. They're lazy attempts at humor. Some are mildly amusing, but mostly they're shit. What's disturbing is that they've become a form of communication, and the grammar and syntax of kids are showing that. Memes are making them dumb.

No

No. Most memes just make me feel tired all over.

I don't like it when I encounter them in the source material, like the council scene in Fellowship "One does not simply ______". It creates a sort of dissonance that takes me out of what I'm watching. They're sort of like malware for the brain from that perspective.

I used to despise memes, back in the glory days of Y U NO and rage comics. Those are dead and gone now, so I'm much less of a grumpy old man now.