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I must be behind on internet speak... Never heard of this kind of e-mail behaviour being called a meme. Spam, yes, not meme.
A meme (pron.: /ˈmiːm/; meem)[1] is "an idea, behavior or style that spreads from person to person within a culture."[2] A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals or other imitable phenomena. Supporters of the concept regard memes as cultural analogues to genes in that they self-replicate, mutate and respond to selective pressures.[3]
It's the action of creating the images that spread, along a theme is the Meme, not the spreading of them.
My mind is ticking over with plays on the 'Wait for what?' theme...
try it without question marks and exclamations...srsly
try it without question marks and exclamations...srsly
Gah! The Grammar Nazi in me just won't let me do that!!!
shaolin_monkey is right... a question has a question mark at the end. otherwise it is a statement. 'What are you waiting for' would be incorrect.
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(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8231/8459415600_9e99077577.jpg)"I wanna see your cum face"
exploitable
Stupid double post.
"I wanna see your cum face"
"Try again"
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Made these myself.it might be just me but Lena headley does it for me in both pics :)
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it might be just me but Lena headley does it for me in both pics :)
Tips reads this thread and doesn't get it (not the concept of meme or the "jokes"). He shakes his big. old dinosaur's head and waddles away, saying to himself, "Boy, I am old and out of touch".
shaolin_monkey is right... a question has a question mark at the end. otherwise it is a statement. 'What are you waiting for' would be incorrect.
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Absolutely no idea what this reply means...
examples
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ie the point you made in regard to grammar was perceived by the poster..in this case me as missing the point. I was objecting [tongue in cheek] not to the grammatical use of the punctuation but its stylistic use.
macro memes of that style are often or mainly free of punctuation..its a tradition if you like.
the effect is one of slight dissidence in regards to language... ie it is not completely spelt out. this also creates a delayed affect which adds something [not sure what but thats the ineffable nature of art/culture i guess] the idea is like its an in joke but everyone is in on it
the joke here was to counterpose the notion of grammar Nazi vs macro meme Nazi which is a double joke at the expense of macro meme cultural expression because it suggests that its radical "hip" nature is every bit as formalised as proper queens english... hence defanging its subversive pretentions
it loses comedic timing somewhat in the explanation :D
basically you haven't missed anything
point about the meme having it's own formal structure in language, and that it's subverting
"Meme" is as much the process as the subject, Tips. Basically put, religion is a meme because it's the process of spreading an idea like an infection, but (insert name of current pop singer) is also a meme, as is Star Wars, X Factor, or anything else that develops an awareness in the public consciousness after "going viral" - meme is just a fancy way of saying "a notion or a bit of knowledge that has been passed from one person to another", and you are correct that text-speak has been after-the-fact rationalised as a meme, but it isn't an attempt to excuse it, it's just a label used to explain the scientific process of people copying each other's behavior. Correct spelling and grammar, being something we learn, is just as much a meme.
In the context of this thread, the meme is an in-joke combined with several other in-jokes to pretty much be baffling in isolation, much as the board's own in-jokes* would be baffling to complete newcomers, but it could be worse - you want to take a butchers at YTMND, a comedy website that comes with its own wiki to explain why you should be laughing, usually because someone has made a reference to something that existed once. It's pretty much Family Guy taken to its logical conclusion.
* Sc**o, "like driving a car into a bus queue", arsom, etc
an in-joke combined with several other in-jokes to pretty much be baffling in isolation
Quotean in-joke combined with several other in-jokes to pretty much be baffling in isolation
That's the bit that baffles me. This seems to be an exercise that will only ever be understood by twenty people.
But interesting to see it all in action and if I had more time on my hands, doubtless I'd be doing this sort of thing.
Quotean in-joke combined with several other in-jokes to pretty much be baffling in isolation
So that wouldn't be a joke then?
But I still can't bring myself to do it.
Nope, I think they are still spam... I'm lost to the point of them. A picture with a witty comment I can obviously see is intended as a joke. But mass regurgitated images with half baked jokes are just spam.
I think my attempt to understand the phenomena is a failure. And I again now find that I fail to see how they are in fact memes. Oh well.
Maybe it has - but you gotta appreciate the power of that initial concept (meme) I started spreading.
Maybe it has - but you gotta appreciate the power of that initial concept (meme) I started spreading.(http://i48.tinypic.com/zuf6ll.jpg)
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argh - why can't I see those? If copy'n'paste that actual link it just takes me to that site's homepage. can anyone repost in a different format, they sound good from the reaction! I even tried internet explorer instead of firefox, but no joy.
Not a meme so much, but relevant..
Dare you to watch this and see Dredd's "...yeah" in the same light..
http://www.youtube.com/#/watch?v=gmlR5eG9zP4&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DgmlR5eG9zP4
Not a meme so much, but relevant..
Dare you to watch this and see Dredd's "...yeah" in the same light..
http://www.youtube.com/#/watch?v=gmlR5eG9zP4&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DgmlR5eG9zP4
link suspect?
Not a meme so much, but relevant..
Dare you to watch this and see Dredd's "...yeah" in the same light..
http://www.youtube.com/#/watch?v=gmlR5eG9zP4&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DgmlR5eG9zP4
link suspect?
Ah cock.. Sorry:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmlR5eG9zP4
(http://ct.fra.bz/ol/fz/sw/i55/2/2/12/frabz-Judge-Dredd-What-my-friends-think-I-do-What-perps-think-I-do-Wha-9598cb.jpg)Problem with this is Dredd doesn't have any friends.