Memes

[Malcolm Schweizer]

I love memes. There are some pretty clever ones out there. What are your favorites? (Keep it clean) Here's a good one.

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[Mike Henderson]

Okay, I'll bite. What's a meme? And what makes them clever? And why is the picture a meme?

Mike

[Malcolm Schweizer]

It's when you take a picture- often an iconic picture, movie screenshot, celebrity, or just a funny picture, and add a (usually sarcastic) comment to it. It's kind of like a photographic oxymoron. Sometimes the image may in context not go with the comment, but taken out of context and added to the comment it's hilarious.

Since we we have a few Jeep owners here, myself included, this is a good one.

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[Bruce Pratt]

A meme, a concept originally named by the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, is a mental concept or idea which can be transmitted/spread throughout a culture from one person to another. A meme can evolve or "mutate" on transmission, somewhat like the game of "telephone". A meme can be considered the mental or cultural equivalent to a gene in biology. Just as the "goal" of a gene is to propagate and spread throughout a species, the "goal" of a meme is to become widespread within a culture.

The concept of "going viral" on the internet encompasses some aspects of a meme, in that it becomes widespread, but the content of the meme usually does not change. A better example might be urban legends, which also spread on the 'net, and also "mutate" to become more interesting/scary/believable, thereby increasing the probability of further spread.

Not sure, however, how the OP's picture is a meme; perhaps it represents the perception (meme) that Harbor Freight does not represent the highest quality within its commercial space?

[Mel Fulks]

Seems like making the extra effort to be obtuse....

[Mike Henderson]

A meme, a concept originally named by the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, is a mental concept or idea which can be transmitted/spread throughout a culture from one person to another. A meme can evolve or "mutate" on transmission, somewhat like the game of "telephone". A meme can be considered the mental or cultural equivalent to a gene in biology. Just as the "goal" of a gene is to propagate and spread throughout a species, the "goal" of a meme is to become widespread within a culture.

The concept of "going viral" on the internet encompasses some aspects of a meme, in that it becomes widespread, but the content of the meme usually does not change. A better example might be urban legends, which also spread on the 'net, and also "mutate" to become more interesting/scary/believable, thereby increasing the probability of further spread.

Not sure, however, how the OP's picture is a meme; perhaps it represents the perception (meme) that Harbor Freight does not represent the highest quality within its commercial space?

I went to Wikipedia and read the same text. I still had no idea what a meme was after reading it.

Mike

[John Coloccia]

I love memes. There are some pretty clever ones out there. What are your favorites? (Keep it clean) Here's a good one.

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See, like that.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/y-u-no-guy

It's easier to simply give some examples and background than it is to define what an internet meme is.

[Kent A Bathurst]

Oooops - wrong thread - I thought this was a Mimes thread.

Like from from Shakes the Clown.

Can;t link to it, comfortably, but goog Shakes the Clown - Mimes

"MIMES!!!!!"

[John Coloccia]

Oooops - wrong thread - I thought this was a Mimes thread.

Like from from Shakes the Clown.

Can;t link to it, comfortably, but goog Shakes the Clown - Mimes

"MIMES!!!!!"

I don't know how I ever made it through life having missed that.

[Mel Fulks]

I guess it's harmless enough. But kinda like using a computor to "text" a picture of a Morse code message...perversely
humorous in its overstated pointlessness. P.S., ..---... ...-.....---!

[Dave Zellers]

Political activists today on both sides attempt to create memes by repeating the same message over and over trying to instill it into receptive minds and hoping it will get repeated, on and on and on and then become accepted as truth.

[Malcolm Schweizer]

A bit of overthink going on here. Tried renaming to "post a funny picture" but I can't edit it now. I just wanted some funny pics- that's all. image.jpg

[Bill Orbine]

A bit of overthink going on here. Tried renaming to "post a funny picture" but I can't edit it now. I just wanted some funny pics- that's all. image.jpg

Your second meme makes much more sense. Laughed right away. The Harbor Freight meme is difficult to understand though I get it now, I think..... it's a meme humoring memecrunch.com because the HF sign appears crunched. Took me too long to laugh. A little bit.

[Malcolm Schweizer]

I thought the Harbor Freight would be easy. They sell cheap tools. Their sign is broken. I'm out.

[Scott Shepherd]

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