You’re bringing it on yourself. No one calls it the world wide web it’s just the internet. It just screams “geezer.” I bet you put a www before you type up a url too.
Sucks to be you. Good luck tho. I’d die if I didn’t have a working phone.
How melodramatic. My dear, that’s why the landline was invented. Perhaps you’ve read about them in your history textbooks?
Edited (****ing apple and their default “smart” quotes gtfo of my code. I guess I shouldn’t swear in a kid’s post. It’s unyouthful) 2020-02-26 11:47 (UTC)
That is not my intention either. I was thinking more books, or more funding for the arts. Though what do I know; perhaps the Art of the Meme 101 is a new offering on the course catalogue.
It's a mystery. Guess I don't care, I'll be long gone!
Hey, meme culture is just as important as any other form of art. I should know! It's a perfectly great way to express yourself and brand that same feeling into the minds of others. I think if people tried to communicate with recognizable symbolism and art, I.E. MEMES, more then they would probably understand each other better.
Probably.
But yeah. It would be nice if taxes went more to things like art and stuff. I agree with you there.
But we DO communicate plenty with recognizable symbolism already. Consider the smiley face and other emotion-icons, the red octagon of the stop sign, a cross, musical jingles, even catchphrases--anything that works as a cultural shorthand and that has gained enough popularity/spread to be almost instantly recognizable. When your literature/art teacher refers to "imagery," often the author/artist is calling upon something we as a culture have ascribed some kind of recognizable symbolism to.
Art is full of shorthand. So is music. The first four notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. The theme to the film Jaws.
Humankind has been using meme-culture to spread ideas for longer than you or I have existed, even if the word is relatively new ("new" in as far as words go). The word meme comes from a Greek word meaning "imitated thing." Similar in root to "mime." You are "miming" or imitating what you mean to express...as a way to express it. But meme is also modeled on the word "gene." They imitate, replicate, spread through cultures, and evolve. They go, well, viral.
Memes are shorthand to the cultures that recognize them, and a bit alien and incomprehensible to those who don't.
I think you’ve explained more history to me in just that last message than Mrs. Dodson ever taught me in a full week of classes.
You know a lot about this stuff for an old lady.
But that’s the thing, right? The memes we have now are a lot more recognizable because internet culture is so widespread. Sure, there are places where things like memes are censored, which is majorly lame, but people all over the world recognize the salad cat meme. And that’s what makes it great! It’s a perfectly viable way to express myself here, and just about everyone got it except for you.
But I guess that’s because you didn’t see it, huh?
Oh, an old lady? Is that what you think I am? How kind.
I didn't see it, though I'm pleased to see it was indeed about cats, since that seems to be all they ever are about these days. I don't know why you'd be feeding salad to a cat, however. I'm sure lettuce makes them ill. Or are you making the cat part of a salad? I'm unfamiliar with the meme.
Older, though I wasn't disputing the age part at all.
I'm afraid even with the visual I see don't quite "get it." Is the text meant to serve as captions or is it what the characters are saying? Who is the other woman supposed to be? Why is she yelling at the cat? The cat did nothing wrong. It is even sitting in the chair like a good dinner guest. Or did it take her seat?
Oh. Really? I don’t think I’ve ever had an adult man call me “my dear” before.
Omg they’re captions. And it doesn’t really matter why she’s yelling! It’s the facial expressions! The passion! She’s so sure she’s right, while one the other end the cat is just so confused about what’s going on. C’mon! You gave me a killer explanation on how memes work just a text ago and you can’t figure out a simple reaction meme?
I'm British. I'm also quite gay. Either may account for something.
I would hardly call your salad cat a "simple" reaction meme. I would say one of the motion images of someone eating popcorn or slowly clapping would be a bit more simplistic in their conveyance of message.
Besides, "reaction meme" seems to suggest it is used in reaction to something, correct? Perhaps if I posted a character's scandalized expression after your accusation that I was "an old hag." Yours is a bit more of an editorial, I think.
Okay, so it's not a "simple" meme in that regard, but it does express what I feel about the whole situation pretty well. There I was minding my own business and suddenly I have a dream about stuff and now I gotta deal with being called "Different" when that's just high school life on the reg.
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Sucks to be you. Good luck tho. I’d die if I didn’t have a working phone.
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How melodramatic. My dear, that’s why the landline was invented. Perhaps you’ve read about them in your history textbooks?
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Actually I don’t know. I spent history class making this meme so I probably missed that particular lecture.
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Our tax dollars hard at work, I see, meme-ifying cats.
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Hey, better than going to some politician who doesn’t give a carp about following through with his policies, but what do I know?
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That is not my intention either. I was thinking more books, or more funding for the arts.
Though what do I know; perhaps the Art of the Meme 101 is a new offering on the course catalogue.
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Hey, meme culture is just as important as any other form of art. I should know! It's a perfectly great way to express yourself and brand that same feeling into the minds of others. I think if people tried to communicate with recognizable symbolism and art, I.E. MEMES, more then they would probably understand each other better.
Probably.
But yeah. It would be nice if taxes went more to things like art and stuff. I agree with you there.
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Art is full of shorthand. So is music. The first four notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. The theme to the film Jaws.
Humankind has been using meme-culture to spread ideas for longer than you or I have existed, even if the word is relatively new ("new" in as far as words go). The word meme comes from a Greek word meaning "imitated thing." Similar in root to "mime." You are "miming" or imitating what you mean to express...as a way to express it. But meme is also modeled on the word "gene." They imitate, replicate, spread through cultures, and evolve. They go, well, viral.
Memes are shorthand to the cultures that recognize them, and a bit alien and incomprehensible to those who don't.
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You know a lot about this stuff for an old lady.
But that’s the thing, right? The memes we have now are a lot more recognizable because internet culture is so widespread. Sure, there are places where things like memes are censored, which is majorly lame, but people all over the world recognize the salad cat meme. And that’s what makes it great! It’s a perfectly viable way to express myself here, and just about everyone got it except for you.
But I guess that’s because you didn’t see it, huh?
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Oh, an old lady? Is that what you think I am? How kind.
I didn't see it, though I'm pleased to see it was indeed about cats, since that seems to be all they ever are about these days. I don't know why you'd be feeding salad to a cat, however. I'm sure lettuce makes them ill. Or are you making the cat part of a salad? I'm unfamiliar with the meme.
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Uh, yeah? You’re an adult so you’re old. Where am I wrong?
No no no here let me just link you. Here.
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Older, though I wasn't disputing the age part at all.
I'm afraid even with the visual I see don't quite "get it." Is the text meant to serve as captions or is it what the characters are saying? Who is the other woman supposed to be?
Why is she yelling at the cat? The cat did nothing wrong. It is even sitting in the chair like a good dinner guest. Or did it take her seat?
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Omg they’re captions. And it doesn’t really matter why she’s yelling! It’s the facial expressions! The passion! She’s so sure she’s right, while one the other end the cat is just so confused about what’s going on. C’mon! You gave me a killer explanation on how memes work just a text ago and you can’t figure out a simple reaction meme?
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I would hardly call your salad cat a "simple" reaction meme. I would say one of the motion images of someone eating popcorn or slowly clapping would be a bit more simplistic in their conveyance of message.
Besides, "reaction meme" seems to suggest it is used in reaction to something, correct? Perhaps if I posted a character's scandalized expression after your accusation that I was "an old hag." Yours is a bit more of an editorial, I think.
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Okay, so it's not a "simple" meme in that regard, but it does express what I feel about the whole situation pretty well. There I was minding my own business and suddenly I have a dream about stuff and now I gotta deal with being called "Different" when that's just high school life on the reg.