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 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
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
what, you're homosexual?
