Does the title qualify this as a meme since it’s now recontextualized? Discuss, or perhaps refuse to again.

  • foggy@lemmy.world
    22·
    11 hours ago

    Person in red is dumb. Richard Dawkins himself has renounced the definition he set. Go read a book.

    By Richard Dawkins original definition, a smile is a meme. As is a high five.

    Ain’t nobody headed to c/memes to see a fucking high five, and red knows that.

    Red is a pedantic annoying dbag. Green set a firm boundary with an idiot and I commend them.

    • CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de
      3·
      6 hours ago

      Richard Dawkins himself has renounced the definition he set. Go read a book.

      Plus he was always critizised for that definition by his peers, for example by Scott Atran showed through cognitive psychological studies that ideas do not regularly replicate by imitation and that ideas do not develope like genes.

      And on top of that, Dawkins is a dickhead. And a dumb one falling into an AI psychosis.

      • CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de
        3·
        6 hours ago

        Counterpoint to your counterpoint: that image is a meme template, an image used to create memes through adding text that recontextualizes the image.

            • MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works
              OP
              1·
              3 hours ago

              I don’t think that the criteria for what belongs in c/memes should be whether it’s still a meme if downloaded and placed somewhere that isn’t c/memes. That’s like saying “I bought this champagne from France but poured it from its original bottle into another bottle, and now that there’s no label designating it as champagne, it was never truly champagne to begin with.”

      • Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        6 hours ago

        All I see is an image often used in memes, please elaborate

        god damnit, I failed to read the quoted part and ragebaited myself, the counterpoint does makes sense in a vacuum

        • CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de
          2·
          5 hours ago

          No, your original comment was correct, OP left out the key detail that this image is always recontextualized by added text. That recontextualization creates the meme.

  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
    6·
    10 hours ago

    I never understood this argument. If it’s wrong, it’ll get down voted. If it’s down voted people won’t see it.

    And if it’s not, then people are enjoying it so shut up.