But I do have all the facts. And I find it amusing that someone wrote what appears to be the thoughts of, indeed, someone clueless about the whole thing.
Which, you would be surprised, happens quite often!
For instance my kids know Odysseus as Ulysse, in French. And so they have no idea that an “odyssée” is named after the king of Ithaca and his maritime adventures.
It’s a mild joke about people knowing a word from one source and, seeing it appear somewhere else, assume a different relationship than what actually happened.
Like if someone discovered that Kleenex is a brand and exclaimed “Wow! I can’t believe they can just trademark an everyday word like that!”
Or, “OMG, I can’t believe Microsoft invented words ? Bill Gates is such a genius, OMG! But what did we call them in the past?! 🤯”
This screencap can spread and have a life of it’s own separate from whatever context the post has. It is a meme to me, but this kind of memes is sure not created by artisan mememakers.
I don’t understand memes like this that seem to be made by and for people who can’t use Google to find basic information
Clearly you haven’t used google recently…
Because the meme isn’t about the actual facts. It’s about the joke at the end. Which you clearly missed.
Really nothing on earth more Lemmy than people taking joke memes super seriously.
The joke only makes sense if you don’t have the actual facts or any desire to actually learn the
But I do have all the facts. And I find it amusing that someone wrote what appears to be the thoughts of, indeed, someone clueless about the whole thing.
Which, you would be surprised, happens quite often!
For instance my kids know Odysseus as Ulysse, in French. And so they have no idea that an “odyssée” is named after the king of Ithaca and his maritime adventures. It’s a mild joke about people knowing a word from one source and, seeing it appear somewhere else, assume a different relationship than what actually happened.
Like if someone discovered that Kleenex is a brand and exclaimed “Wow! I can’t believe they can just trademark an everyday word like that!”
Or, “OMG, I can’t believe Microsoft invented words ? Bill Gates is such a genius, OMG! But what did we call them in the past?! 🤯”
Go ahead try it.
Okay Journathan
You can totally laugh at something you already know tho.
No thank you I need my jokes fresh
Not really how jokes work, but ok
And I don’t understand why people call social media posts “memes”
There, we both must be fun at parties
This screencap can spread and have a life of it’s own separate from whatever context the post has. It is a meme to me, but this kind of memes is sure not created by artisan mememakers.
Eh, that agree with you. Like all those stupid POV or “No one” macros. Words have no meaning anymore :/
The world and society as we know it is, and has always been, just vibes. Absolutely nothing is real.
Of course we can all google information. But it’s more fun to involve other people; especially if we find it funny.
Wait… Do you mean that social networks require interaction with other people?
Fun fact, you can ignore everybody else and play Single Player Lemmy, if you really want. Kinda empty, though.