Yes, you are
Why do people even keep folders of memes? Are they archiving for future generations?
(It’s so I can reply quickly with them, but this is the only one I have saved.)
Yeah but how is digging through a folder of memes any faster than simply googling the image you want?
Have you seen Google lately?
I try not to
Every time I can’t find an old internet thing lament not having a meme folder. 😭 Who knew the internet would just forget about stuff.
Adding to what others have said, so much internet has been purged in recent years that the meme might very well be lost media.
It’s not always easy to find the exact meme I have in mind, there have been a couple times that I gave up on internet searching for one because it just wasn’t showing up. I also prefer scrolling through a bunch of memes that I’ve already vetted as good rather than the sea of meme trash the internet holds.
I dont archive memes but I think its 2-part
- They can’t google 4chan OC because it disappears before it can be indexed
- Its not just about finding an image, but also about finding an image with the right caption, so they dont have to caption it themselves, because work
As a minor language nerd, I would like to posit a 2.5, if you will: memery as a dialect and individual memes as bespoke words.
Like, consider this sequence of emoji: 🌍 🧑🚀 🔫 🧑🚀
Chances are, you’re familiar enough with memes that you can infer the meaning of an English sentence which has nothing to do with the actual representational meaning of those emoji independently. By placing them in this specific context, I have communicated a meaning beyond their intended representation.
By a similar token, different specific memes under the same genre (e.g. Gigachad) may be equated with synonyms, and different contexts may call for different “words” (i.e. individual memes).
I pray Lord Apollo is kind enough to me for that to make sense because Hypnos is buzzing 'round my head and it’s getting hard to think
Google sucks these days, it’s way faster.
I suppose its the same speed but in my case it felt less awkward to fetch ^ image above than to search “meme where a black guy is facing the viewer and pointing to his car radio in a car”
And in anon’s case its way more efficient then googling “naked gigachad image, black and white, bearded short hair big pecs” and hoping the right one will come up.
So I suppose it’s a specificity problem
On the phone I usually save and upload them to share with people, but not deleting them afterwards leaves me with a collection of memes I like, that I can browse every few months-years and look at how things have changed
I do know one person who has a litany of Psych memes ready for nearly any situation.
I have a few GB of prehistoric memes from the early days tucked away somewhere. Some of them have the black border and Garamond font caption. True fossils of the internet age.
Yes.
Just tell your mom you’re into bodybuilding.
Body builders clearly aren’t gay, they’re just totally into being ripped and admiring other ripped men’s muscles.
“thank goodness! your father and I were so worried you were one of those incels!”
Show her your folder of incest porn to prove you’re not gay anon.
I’m jerking off to the idea of being them, not to their perfectly chiseled faces and washboard abs.
Is anon Claviculer?
What’s a gigachad folder?
A 9/11 folder but with images of gigachads
What’s a 9/11 folder?
A gigachad folder but with 9/11 memes
Mooo000mmmm, your embarsseeng meeee, they r dank mememes
fake: mom “found” folder
gay: collects pics of naked men
Not gay, as long as the folder is called “no homo”.
All the giga chads are wearing socks
I just thought of something, what if a greentext admits to being gay?
Would it be fake and straight or real and gay?
It’s a paradox.
sometimes being gay is just gay
Undefined and bi
The thing about moms is that they will ask if you are gay over the smallest most trivial things. In many cases it seems like they want you to be gay.
I imagine a reason for this is that women think maintaining and forming relationships with women is easy so if their own child fails to do so, their only conclusion is “he must lack the incentive to do so”
But anon literally has muscular nude men on his computer. In a dedicated folder.
The thing about moms is that they will ask if you are gay over the smallest most trivial things. In many cases it seems like they want you to be gay.
I think this might be a generational difference in showing acceptance. My dad asked me if I was a lesbian all the time, because he wanted to reassure me that he still loved me if so. I found it very annoying when I was in middle/high school, but in my case it was basically harmless, so whatever. Hopefully your mom’s just doing the same :)
