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[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

No, this is c/memes. But a screenshot of a comment without any recontextualization isn't a meme.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

A meme is an idea or behavior that spreads through a culture.

[–] TheOctonaut@piefed.zip 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is this an idea or a behaviour?

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If this qualifies as a meme, then literally anything posted here would as well, making the term useless.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I agree that the channel is poorly named.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

The Q stands for quality.

[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I will not have that discussion again.

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

A meme is an idea or behavior that spreads through a culture.

[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Because you'll lose it again lol

[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Because I'm tired of talking to a wall.

[–] SippyCup@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you're having a disagreement, and are unwilling to move on your position at all, you're not having a discussion, you're attempting to out lecture somebody who's probably doing the same thing. That person might be an expert in some tangentially related field. That person might be an irredeemable cretin who enjoys arguing on the Internet more than anything else.

[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de -2 points 1 month ago

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I had this discussiom before. It always ends in circling around unchanging positions and repitition of arguments brought up before. I don't want to play that game. Make of that whatever the fuck you want, but leave it be for fucks sake and stop trying to make me argue again. It won't work.

[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

Wack, the definition I have here is

"Any unit of (originally cultural) information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another in a comparable way to the transmission of genes."

Of course there are some other definitions, but I'd assume this community intends the most open interpretation otherwise they'd have a more specific one listed in the comm rules

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago

It most certainly can be.