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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.


Laittakaa meemejä tänne.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (18 children)

Kind of just more evidence that reducing human conversation into writing is reducing human communication to at most a handful of perceivable factors instead of the countless ways in which humans (and animals in general) communicate.

In other words, if it wasn’t already obvious the internet is corrosive to humanity.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I love emojis for this, although they can certainly come across as cringy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What about emoticons? Are they cringe too? :/

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

You write 😂
I write =D

We are not the same

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

ah, alright, I conflated the two

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