Fox News just aired a suicide live

scotland is cooler than england.

  On 10/5/2012 at 11:28 PM, messiaen said:

scotland is cooler than england.

I am inclined to believe this is true simply because of Malcolm Tucker.

Do you want to know what's wrong with skyrim? Everyone is obsessed with death!

I used to be a meme, but then I took an arrOH GOD JUST STOP JUST FUCKING STOP

I love how the term "meme" has been digested and vomited by the web mind so many times that it now just refers to universally adaptable phrases, mostly from video games, that are typically used in youtube comments. this form basically serves to make everyone feel like they are part of a larger group because they have all played skyrim or mass effect.

there is also the picture/text "meme" which isn't a meme either.

I love how pedants refuse to recognize the evolution of a language in order to artificially separate themselves from the masses

(j/k just screwin' with you)

exactly

This thread has become a meme.

  On 10/6/2012 at 6:52 PM, sheatheman said:

I love how the term "meme" has been digested and vomited by the web mind so many times that it now just refers to universally adaptable phrases, mostly from video games, that are typically used in youtube comments. this form basically serves to make everyone feel like they are part of a larger group because they have all played skyrim or mass effect.

 

there is also the picture/text "meme" which isn't a meme either.

you do know the idea of memetics isn't entirely limited to a select cultural vacuum, right?

I'm interested to hear sheatheman's idea of what a meme is, actually.

Please enlighten us, Lord of memes sheatheman!

you're right lumenprol, it is the evolution of language. have you ever been on xbox live and heard a 4 year old speak, and you can tell that the xbox raised him? it's a new language, i think. i can't understand what they say.

maybe what i meme is that internet memes, the ones most of us see, are becoming more like metamemes, memes for the sake of memes, and are becoming meaningless. i used to think of memes more in relation to zeitgeist phenomena, but now the term meme only seems to apply to internet memes, which are just tiny artifacts of postmodern, post-internet humor.

i don't have TV and so am unable to watch hannity.

they still replicate, so by definition they're still memes.

yep, viral ideas are what they are. wether they have a certain meaning or not is not really relevant. just like genes. a meaningless gene is still a gene.

That's true, but memes used to just spread; people weren't so very aware that they were spreading and how. Now people replicate them BECAUSE they are a meme, or want them to be a meme, where years ago things just spread because people liked the idea.

I think that these overt memes are simply a meme in and of themselves, and that the popularity of sharing them on the web will fade away just like anything else.

Perhaps. But I'm seeing a very successful future for the meta-meme. Meme's are fun!

  On 10/9/2012 at 1:11 AM, sheatheman said:

That's true, but memes used to just spread; people weren't so very aware that they were spreading and how. Now people replicate them BECAUSE they are a meme, or want them to be a meme, where years ago things just spread because people liked the idea.

 

I think that these overt memes are simply a meme in and of themselves, and that the popularity of sharing them on the web will fade away just like anything else.

lol, people have always been spreading stupid ideas so that they'll catch on just for the sake of catching on. for god's sake, just look at fashion. the only difference is that we have a name for it now.

everyone thinks society is coming with new and creative ways to be mindless but i think it's just the same shit as yesterday :/

  On 10/9/2012 at 1:11 AM, sheatheman said:

That's true, but memes used to just spread; people weren't so very aware that they were spreading and how. Now people replicate them BECAUSE they are a meme, or want them to be a meme, where years ago things just spread because people liked the idea.

 

I think that these overt memes are simply a meme in and of themselves, and that the popularity of sharing them on the web will fade away just like anything else.

they were spreading because of exactly the same reasons they spread now, the only difference is that they are older and ubiquitous.

you don't know.