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Post by **sgt.null** » Thu May 14, 2015 5:38 pm

good job WF. still awaiting payment tho/?

Post by **wayfriend** » Thu May 14, 2015 5:47 pm

yeah ... no.

Post by **Avatar** » Fri May 15, 2015 4:28 am

Frosty wrote:I believe this counts as one

That one has real potential I think.

wayfriend wrote:But no one is re-meming them.

And that is exactly the problem with creating a meme. I'm not even sure if it is completely possible to do it deliberately.

--A

Post by **wayfriend** » Fri May 15, 2015 1:15 pm

Avatar wrote:
wayfriend wrote:But no one is re-meming them.
And that is exactly the problem with creating a meme. I'm not even sure if it is completely possible to do it deliberately.

I agree completely. But what if I am the first one to succeed?

Post by **sgt.null** » Sun May 17, 2015 8:27 am

You Can Do It!!!!

see what i did there?

Post by **Avatar** » Mon May 18, 2015 4:47 am

wayfriend wrote:
Avatar wrote:
wayfriend wrote:But no one is re-meming them.
And that is exactly the problem with creating a meme. I'm not even sure if it is completely possible to do it deliberately.
I agree completely. But what if I am the first one to succeed?

I'd be really impressed?

--A

Post by **deer of the dawn** » Tue May 19, 2015 3:03 pm

Anyway what happened to the general seeming agreement that Troy was African American?

Post by **Avatar** » Wed May 20, 2015 4:27 am

Really? Where did that come from?

--A

Post by **Vraith** » Wed May 20, 2015 6:58 am

deer of the dawn wrote:Anyway what happened to the general seeming agreement that Troy was African American?

I'm too lazy to search Av's question about where that idea came from.
But it's a failed meme. Only some thought it, and most didn't care one way or another.

I propound this: one of the very few true memes in the last decade or more is the meme of "memes."
[net shit involving cats may be a true one too...and that is sad.]
Real memes have to not only go fast and far they have to last.
Thematically, leprosy was a "meme" for centuries...even millenia.
Now, it's just a "case" or "outbreak." [same with "the plague" ]
Shakespeare is such...but Beaumont, Dekker, Jonson? Who are they? Even though they're damn fine and "The Bard" IIRC appeared as an actor in a Jonson play...and what about Fletcher, who co-wrote at least a couple of 'ole Shake's plays?

So...if anyone is still reading...my top-of-the-head ideas for a "false meme" frame that I'm too lazy to do myself....something like:

A grumpy cat photoshopped to resemble GRRM captioned with
"You think I'M slow? Donaldson took 36 years!"
Or:
A cat photoshopped to look like, and dressed up as Cersei Lannister captioned with "I'm a fucking bitch. But I'm not a whiny bitch like Linden Avery." [I'm not sure if it is good or bad that everyone will have to google Linden Avery, but I suspect good].

A real meme is much harder...one would have to be so brilliant they could use SRD to change a significant portion of the world. If I knew how to do that, I'd have done it already...

Post by **peter** » Wed May 20, 2015 4:09 pm

SRD has canged a significant portion of the world V. - me [and in my eyes portions of the world don't come much more significant than that!

]

Post by **Avatar** » Thu May 21, 2015 4:34 am

Yes, but can we use him to do it to more people?

Good post Vraith.

I wonder how many users of the term, and of what we term the term, are aware that its origin was in the study of genetics?

The term is indeed what it purports to describe.

--A

Post by **peter** » Thu May 21, 2015 3:25 pm

I read the book when it first came out and to be honest, can't remember Dawkins using the term, but hey - I can't remember anything other than the title and some stuff on 'altruism' [IIRC] that was in it anyway, so no suprise there. Thing is, it must have been knocking around in academic circles for years before it entered the public arena, because it's only latterly [in the last decade or fifteen?] that I have subsequently encountered the idea - and then it seemed to be everywhere. It came as a suprise to hear that it was Dawkins who coined the idea and the term.

Post by **Vraith** » Fri May 22, 2015 12:51 am

The best use of the term and its meaning/purpose I've run across was in Stephenson's "Snowcrash."
[[Man, apparently I really love that book despite its numerous problems/shortcomings.]]

YouTube · Post by **Menolly** » Fri May 22, 2015 1:59 am

Are meme's only based on photos? If not, this new Delta safety video makes creative use of them.

The Internetest safety video on the Internet

Post by **Avatar** » Fri May 22, 2015 4:37 am

I like Snowcrash a lot.

And the Selfish Gene was a good book too. Guy should have stuck to genetics.

--A

Post by **peter** » Fri May 22, 2015 8:10 am

Science comes a poor second to deification [well at least Bodhisattva status] by the society you live in however [poor in every sense of the word

].

Post by **Vraith** » Fri May 22, 2015 7:31 pm

Menolly wrote:Are meme's only based on photos? If not, this new Delta safety video makes creative use of them.

The Internetest safety video on the Internet

The interwebz certainly has a photo-meme bias.
And that vid was so damn funny.

Post by **sgt.null** » Sun May 24, 2015 2:32 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgpzUo_kbFY

like that as well for some reason.

YouTube · Post by **Menolly** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 7:35 pm

Not Watch related, other than it features SD and Dam-et...

Post by **hierachy** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 9:50 pm

Kevinswatch has tons of memes! Listen, I may not have been around for ten years so I'm not exactly up to date on current events, but even back then there were tons of memes like... um... there was...

Whatever, the reason none of the plethora of KW memes have gone viral is simply because they are far too high brow for the common plebs that inhabit the rest of the internet

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