Although this is funny, I am seeing this whole "meme generation" thing getting taken too far. The University of Arkansas has a whole facebook page that is "Uark Memes" where students generate and submit Memes to be reposted. It's really ****ing lame and shows how poor of an understanding most people have of memes.
What they're posting aren't memes. They're photoshopped jokes.
Originally Posted by NewChief:
Although this is funny, I am seeing this whole "meme generation" thing getting taken too far. The University of Arkansas has a whole facebook page that is "Uark Memes" where students generate and submit Memes to be reposted. It's really ****ing lame and shows how poor of an understanding most people have of memes.
What they're posting aren't memes. They're photoshopped jokes.
Originally Posted by Sofa King:
Uh. What exactly is your definition of an internet meme then?
It's a continuation of a specific theme or idea in a viral fashion. It's not just some random photoshop.
This is a meme because it's all playing off the same concept: dude's tattoo.
But I can't just post some random picture of a flower superimposed over a vagina and say, "This is Chiefsplanet" and call it a meme. It has to have a generative event and a resultant uptake (usually involving some bastardization or ironic twisting of the originator), and then a viral spreading. [Reply]
Originally Posted by NewChief:
It's a continuation of a specific theme or idea in a viral fashion. It's not just some random photoshop.
This is a meme because it's all playing off the same concept: dude's tattoo.
But I can't just post some random picture of a flower superimposed over a vagina and say, "This is Chiefsplanet" and call it a meme. It has to have a generative event and a resultant uptake (usually involving some bastardization or ironic twisting of the originator), and then a viral spreading.
