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[–] 58 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    This is the original, but the "my brother in christ" part was the n word.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    New challenge: put the last text you wrote on the last picture you downloaded.

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    [–] 30 points 1 year ago (1 child)
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    [–] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The jug represents the simple pleasures of youth. Common to households across America, it would regularly be used to store a variety of sweetened beverages, from lemonade to iced tea to concentrated orange juice. The emptiness of the bottle signals the hollowness of nostalgia as we can only cling to the imagery even as we long for the sweetness within.

    This meme reminds us that memes themselves are a throwback to a bygone day. In analyzing the symbolism, we seek to recreate the moment of blissful innocence. But we are bound by the chains of memory, able only to see but never touch the essence of the thing before us.

    The text mostly just obstructs the image. You can ignore it.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The text mostly just obstructs the image. You can ignore it.

    Really? I interpreted the text in this meme as a rich commentary on the nature of textual interpretation.

    • Consider: "is the glass half full or half empty?" In this image the answer is unclear, obscured by the text.
    • In the same way, language interposes itself between us as thinking beings and the objective world.
    • Together, these point to the nature of subjectivity in interpretation: is the jug half empty or half full? We cannot even reach the empty/full dichotomy (which is so necessary for the expression of our subjective interpretations) because of the obscuring nature of language.
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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If some image macros are meme.

    And some meme are image macros.

    Does that mean all image macros are meme?

    Debate.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The term 'image macro' has largely fallen out of common parlance. It is a loss of distinction, but not necessarily a loss of functional speech. When people are talking about memes in the Dawkins sense, they know they aren't talking about image macros, and when people talk about memes in the sense of internet comedy, they don't get confused. The only confusion that arises is when someone is trying to explain Dawkins memes and has to dance around the fact that the term has been hijacked by the culture.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Dawkins is a smart guy, but "meme' is his greatest contribution to the world

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    [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Can somone please send me a screenshot of this. Preferably with a red circle so I knlw what to look at.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    Am I right or am I right?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    The plastic mug obviously symbolizes a cheap method of gathering stuff together and distributing it around. The plastic itself symbolizes materials which hurt the environment.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    We used to call these "image macros."

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    [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Oh pour it on why don't you

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    there should be a file format for image + overlay text

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    [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I get the pitcher!

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I get it, the pitcher represents the dichotomy of good and evil!

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    To be honest, I'm so sexual-relationsing old that I remember when the word meme actually meant something before it was appropriated and adapted for use to refer to the digital images we share electronically after adding text over them.

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    [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This is mostly likely the placebo effect. If people believe is a meme, it can have humorous effects even if is not really a meme.

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