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Post memes here.

A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.


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[–] DroneRights@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

The meme's punchline is that a tourist is transphobic. That's not funny if the meme's author is transphobic. It's only funny if the author is laughing with us, at the tourist. I think the meme is supposed to be funny, so whatever is funny must be true

[–] prim3r@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Right. Funny. Cuz everyone has the same definition of funny, and nobody finds any degree of transphobia funny on the internet. Therefore the only correct interpretation of memes are those that don't include transphobia. Fuck me.

[–] DroneRights@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

I simply cannot imagine a mind so simple that it would laugh with the transphobia here, unless it were a child's