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Savonarola

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January 13, 2017, 02:41:14 PM Last Edit: January 13, 2017, 04:50:40 PM by Savonarola
Quote from: Syt on January 13, 2017, 10:33:13 AM


You have to roll out the tanks to stop a riot just one time and no one ever lets you forget it.   :(

;)

While I know it doesn't matter in the slightest with Facebook memes, but I couldn't imagine a way that the rioting that has occurred during the Obama administration was worse than the LA Riots in 1992 or the various riots in 1968; yet not as bad as Detroit in 1967.
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Syt

#3031
January 13, 2017, 05:21:46 PM
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Berkut

#3032
January 13, 2017, 05:23:05 PM
Yeah, boycotting the Academy Awards sure will show 'em!

Instead, maybe the deplorables could spend the time going to a movie?
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Eddie Teach

#3033
January 13, 2017, 05:24:04 PM
I boycott them every year.
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CountDeMoney

#3034
January 13, 2017, 05:49:11 PM
 :lol:  are Deplorables even invited to the Oscars? Isn't it just the Academy?

FunkMonk

#3035
January 13, 2017, 07:13:48 PM
Guys boycotting really works trust me
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Razgovory

#3036
January 13, 2017, 07:23:03 PM
Clinton calls a bunch of racists deplorable, and the Right turns around and says "yep, that's us!  We're deplorable!".
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11B4V

#3038
January 13, 2017, 07:32:22 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on January 13, 2017, 05:49:11 PM
:lol:  are Deplorables even invited to the Oscars? Isn't it just the Academy?

They don't even know how to spell it.
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Valmy

#3039
January 13, 2017, 11:42:17 PM
Quote from: Savonarola on January 13, 2017, 02:41:14 PM

While I know it doesn't matter in the slightest with Facebook memes, but I couldn't imagine a way that the rioting that has occurred during the Obama administration was worse than the LA Riots in 1992 or the various riots in 1968; yet not as bad as Detroit in 1967.

Virtually everything in there is either a lie or facts misrepresented. It is why Memes are terrible. They just really make me sad more than anything.
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grumbler

#3040
January 14, 2017, 11:35:52 AM
Quote from: Valmy on January 13, 2017, 11:42:17 PM
Quote from: Savonarola on January 13, 2017, 02:41:14 PM

While I know it doesn't matter in the slightest with Facebook memes, but I couldn't imagine a way that the rioting that has occurred during the Obama administration was worse than the LA Riots in 1992 or the various riots in 1968; yet not as bad as Detroit in 1967.

Virtually everything in there is either a lie or facts misrepresented. It is why Memes are terrible. They just really make me sad more than anything.

Why are online posters/bumper stickers called "memes" nowadays, when the word "meme" already has a meaning?  Does anyone know where this started, and when?
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Syt

#3041
January 14, 2017, 12:11:07 PM
From what some (very) cursory googling turns up, it seems Godwin (of Godwin's Law) is widely credited with first applying the term meme to the internet in this Wired article:

https://www.wired.com/1994/10/godwin-if-2/

I'm guessing that over time people saw the term "meme" applied to widely spread "online posters/bumper stickers" (as you call them, I have no better word for it), and then going and applying it to all such content.
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grumbler

#3042
January 14, 2017, 01:44:08 PM
Quote from: Syt on January 14, 2017, 12:11:07 PM
From what some (very) cursory googling turns up, it seems Godwin (of Godwin's Law) is widely credited with first applying the term meme to the internet in this Wired article:

https://www.wired.com/1994/10/godwin-if-2/

I'm guessing that over time people saw the term "meme" applied to widely spread "online posters/bumper stickers" (as you call them, I have no better word for it), and then going and applying it to all such content.

The term "meme" was invented by Richard Dawkins, of evolutionary biology fame, to describe ideas or behaviors that spread through a culture, and evolved over time, by a survival of the fittest process.  "All your ____ are belong to us" is a meme.  It is used by people who are unaware of its origins and have never seen the AYB video.  These incredibly dumb posters and bumper stickers don't even last a day.  They aren't memes, they are brainfarts.

I'm just curious as to where and when people started confusing them with actual memes.  Perhaps the popularity of meme generators creating meme-based graphics ("one does not simply ___ into ___ " or "_____, Motherfucker, Do You Speak It") made people think that memes were things that looked like that, even when they were not ideas that caught on and spread?  But hypothesizing about how it happened doesn't help with where and when it happened.
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PDH

#3043
January 14, 2017, 04:24:08 PM
Mislabeling something as a meme is a meme
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LaCroix

#3044
January 14, 2017, 05:15:06 PM
Quote from: PDH on January 14, 2017, 04:24:08 PM
Mislabeling something as a meme is a meme

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