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I dunno if it's a good or bad thing, but memes have kind of died now that they're largely used on social media advertising to sell shit.

Even more cringe is when they're used by politicians lol. Like I kid you not republicans print out their bad memes on display boards and bring them to congress and shit. We truely live in surreal times.

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[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 36 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 29 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I take it back. Memes are back baby!

[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 22 points 3 weeks ago

faith in humanity: restored!

[–] cerealkiller@hexbear.net 34 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Considering stuff like this is a meme, I see your point:

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 36 points 3 weeks ago

Ah yes, I forgot the extra nail in the coffin, AI.

[–] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

AI generated art is a meme now?

[–] cerealkiller@hexbear.net 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Unfortunately. Look up "Italian AI brainrot" If you're feeling brave.

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 34 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Italian

I am not that brave

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 8 points 3 weeks ago

Tralalero tralalala is funny tho

[–] Xenomorph@hexbear.net 29 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I will craft a meme that will bring sexy back. Watch this space!

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don’t think they’re dead, but the shelf life between “organic meme” and “meme that corporations and politicians have cringed to death” is shorter than it used to be.

[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 17 points 3 weeks ago

Believe Walmart was selling shirts with wojacks on them at one point and assumed we were cooked.

[–] RangerJosey@lemmy.ml 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Are you new to the concept of memes?

I suggest you play the entire Metal Gear Solid franchise.

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 19 points 3 weeks ago

The memes are dead long live the memes

[–] dkr567@hexbear.net 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I remember when they were called fads and lasted for like a year or so. chomsky-yes-honey

[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 18 points 3 weeks ago

Good. I wasn't getting royalties for my image being used vegeta-stare

[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What if we return to deep fried memes, makes the leftovers more palatable.

[–] Gorillatactics@hexbear.net 15 points 3 weeks ago

People forgot the ancient art of microsoft paint.

[–] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

As long as slammer is making memes, memes cannot die. https://slammermemes.wordpress.com/

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I wish slammer posted on here

[–] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

For a long time I thought he did because I never saw it elsewhere. I didn't realize hexbearians were just reposting his stuff.

[–] Meltyheartlove@hexbear.net 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Replace the word for meme and it will live again and make some weird rules for differentiating it.

[–] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

lets go back to the original definition of meme,

Memory+gene,

IE, a concept that is shared and survives on its own. I can teach you to do something, which you teach someone else and so on.

those concepts can change and are affected by natural selection, is it isn't shared it dies, if it changes (unintentionally, let's say when you teach someone you change it a bit and that version makes it easier to teach)...

it's a term coined be Richard Dawkins in the selfish gene(he is a bit of a twat but that idea is interesting).

unless you are referring to a very specific kind of meme (like using animal templates for online memes) memes cannot really end. language is a meme, culture is a meme.

[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago

hexbear-punished Memes, Jack!