Anyone sick of this 'meme' s***?
I know I am.

Back in the day when the Internet wasn't just a stupid fad for 12 year old who like dragonballz when something awesome got sent round the net, it is because everyone loved it and it was genuinely awesome. We didn't even know the word 'meme' and we didn't strive to make something so common till we got sick of it.

Nowadays we have these 'meme factories' full of kids that pump out these stupid ideas that nobody gets, and try to force them onto people in as many places as they can. It's not a meme because 50 children decided they liked it and started repeating it over and over again, thats just s*** kids do. I'm talking about 4chan and that sort of s***. You don't take a running joke from one community and try to write it into history as something that swept across the world.

I see these 'know your meme' videos and articles in Encyclopedia Dramatica that describe various memes about obscure anime s*** and the likes, and I have never heard of this stuff. I am on the god damn internet every day on forums, email, youtube, digg, and I have never heard of most of this crap. Someone just decided that they like something, it's a meme. f*** offff. I don't even like the word meme. Giving it a word means it's something people will go out of their way to 'achieve'.

The other day I was reading about Michael Scott from The Office and the description was like "He uses old memes like 'lame'". What the f***. Since when is a word a meme?

This meme s*** needs to stop!

Sweet thread. Bookmarked.

I like 'memes' and I like the word too. It categorises a clear phenomenon that occurs on teh intarwebz

I don't even know what meme means. As such, your post doesn't make sense, cause for someone who doesn't like the word, you sure say it alot.

yeah i don't know what a meme is. all I can think of is the GI JOE memeemememe video

I saw the word meme spray painted on the walking path near the yacht club at hill end

other people having fun on my internet? it's more likely than you think.

All your base are belong to memes

whats the correct pronounciation? ive ehard people call them me-me's. i always thought it was pronounced as meam. mean but with a m instad of an n.

Sweet thread. Bookmarked.

is this an irony meme?

ravn0s:

dictionary.com says [meem], and the word is a few hundred years old.

The word meme isn't something that was invented to describe internet fads. From wikipedia:

A meme is a postulated unit of cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to another through speech, gestures, rituals or other imitable phenomena. Supporters of the concept regard memes as cultural analogues to genes, in that they self-replicate and respond to selective pressures.

The British scientist Richard Dawkins introduced the word "meme" in The Selfish Gene (1976) as a basis for discussion of evolutionary principles in explaining the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena. Examples of memes given in the book included melodies, catch-phrases, beliefs (notably religious beliefs), clothing fashion, and the technology of building arches.

Hahah go dyslexia, I read that as 1796 on dictionary.com.

And I'm happy with what Khel said. I am not happy with someone drawing some ms paint smiley face, plastering it everywhere, and recording it as global phenomenon.

So you're mad at yourself for imagining someone drawing MS Paint memes?

i like turtles

hogfather, you are the part of me that blows my mind

i like turtles

i didnt think spook jnr. was old enough to type!

There are genuine memes and forced memes. Forced memes is when all the b tards get together to make something a meme, and its never funny. Real memes can be a source of great hilariry.

But memes come from all sorts of places, and forums are just a method of propagation. The bigger the forum, the faster it propagates. Thats why 4chan seems like it generates the memes, when in fact it was probably created somewhere else.

hogfather, you are the part of me that blows my mind

As long as that's all I'm blowing, I'm cool with that.

untill i read this i had never heard of a 'meme'

I have broken your innocence now.

i don't know what a 'meme' is, i don't know what it means, and i don't know how to pronounce it. I do know the word s***s me.

Http://www.knowyourmeme.com

I am not happy with someone drawing some ms paint smiley face, plastering it everywhere, and recording it as global phenomenon.

The internet is still new enough to a some people that the sensation of shared experience of similar fads/trends/jokes across the planet is still an amusing/exciting thing

These things are not new or interesting to you because like everyone else on QGL you're a huge nerd

I am elite.

1 speak 133t cause i know IRC

The whole "memes" thing is a "meme" if you ask me... which is a lulz in itself.

Worse than meme's anamorphic illusions: why are these on the front page of reddit every few days?
EG below

Another who has no idea what memes is or means

Kat, RockitMan, supreme, konstie, sparrow:

Known your meme: Fail
Known your meme: o rly?
Known your meme: Boxxy
Known your meme: Keyboard Kat <-- SWIDT?
Known your meme: Rickroll
Known your meme: All your base <-- trog's post

etc...

Know your meme :-)))

thermite, i don't think you get the internet. or maybe you are getting too old.

Why did I just watch that? It doesn't tell me anything about memes

thermite, i don't think you get the internet. or maybe you are getting too old.

What would you know! I make the internet for a living, and I don't appreciate those little pricks ruining it for me.

You make the Internet? Al Gore, is that you?

Why did I just watch that? It doesn't tell me anything about memes

Soz brosephine, I fixed my post, please insert your coin and try again.

I am on the god damn internet every day on forums, email, youtube, digg, and I have never heard of most of this crap.

Your doing it wrong.

Trolling is a art.

A meme (pronounced /ˈmiːm/, rhyming with "cream"[1]) is a postulated unit of cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to another through speech, gestures, rituals or other imitable phenomena. (The etymology of the term relates to the Greek word μιμητισμός (pronounced /mɪmetɪsmos/) for "something imitated".)[2] Supporters of the concept regard memes as cultural analogues to genes, in that they self-replicate and respond to selective pressures.[3]

See, how hard is it to do that.

Now get it, still never used it

http://imaginingthetenthdimension.blogspot.com/

Once you get your head around his technical jargon his stuff is pretty interesting. He used to go in depth about memes and meme-space etc but lately my interest has waned and he's been talking about his projects and music and technology, etc...

Trolling is a art.

http://www.o--rly.com/owl_orly.png

Back in the day when the Internet wasn't just a stupid fad for 12 year old who like dragonballz when something awesome got sent round the net, it is because everyone loved it and it was genuinely awesome.

Really? How many times did you see dancing baby then or people speaking leet with the emergence of the modern interbutts. Pretty sure anyone who paid attention in high school english knows what a meme is, it's not just an internet thing (see: mad propz).

Your post reads like, "back in my day we were too stupid to call stuff memes and always believed the taco bell dog would run across the screen if you sent it to 50 other people. Now it's getting popular I don't like it anymore, damn kids used to know not to come onto my lawn."

Do you also stop liking music purely on the basis of how popular it is?

BRING BACK NEWSPAPERS !

See, how hard is it to do that.

Now get it, still never used it

Very. I'm a kinesthetic learner.

BRING BACK NEWSPAPERS !

Where did they go? I was reading two at lunch.

Slow down there exemplar. It's not an issue of popularity.

At all.

The Ally McBeal baby was genuinely impressive, I had the f***ing screen saver. Everyone loved that s***.
That's like saying the Mona Lisa is a meme, or Die Hard 4 is a meme. It's not a meme, it's art that people like.

Using leet speak, or saying lol isn't a meme either, that is just the language of the Internet.

There still are plenty of popular funny things that get sent around that I have no problem with.

Slow down there exemplar. It's not an issue of popularity.

At all.

The Ally McBeal baby was genuinely impressive, I had the f***ing screen saver. Everyone loved that s***.
That's like saying the Mona Lisa is a meme, or Die Hard 4 is a meme. It's not a meme, it's art that people like.

Using leet speak, or saying lol isn't a meme either, that is just the language of the Internet. That's why I had a problem with 'lame' being considered a meme. It's like people want to meme-ise everything in culture.

There still are plenty of popular funny things (memes, I guess) that get sent around that I have no problem with.

dont fall out boy have a song called 'thanks for the memes' and they sing :-
"thanks for the memories even thought they werent that great"?
and even though it should be
"thanks for the cash, even though we aint that great",
i thought that this would make the term popular as they appear to be a popular band once upon a time.

Milhouse is not a meme

Slow down there exemplar. It's not an issue of popularity.

At all.

The Ally McBeal baby was genuinely impressive, I had the f***ing screen saver. Everyone loved that s***.
That's like saying the Mona Lisa is a meme, or Die Hard 4 is a meme. It's not a meme, it's art that people like.

Using leet speak, or saying lol isn't a meme either, that is just the language of the Internet. That's why I had a problem with 'lame' being considered a meme. It's like people want to meme-ise everything in culture.

There still are plenty of popular funny things (memes, I guess) that get sent around that I have no problem with.

dont fall out boy have a song called 'thanks for the memes' and they sing :-
"thanks for the memories even thought they werent that great"?
and even though it should be
"thanks for the cash, even though we aint that great",
i thought that this would make the term popular as they appear to be a popular band once upon a time.

See, how hard is it to do that

Not hard at all, which is why I posted an explanation of what a meme is near the start of the thread! Do people even read these things before posting anymore?

Wait a minute, did thermite just call the dancing baby art?

3 times, apparently

Sorry Khel, I totally missed your post.
I make a habit of not reading every single post in a thread

Back on the OP I'm not sure how you can be 'sick' of memes? As a lot of peeps in this thread pointed out, it's not exactly invasive. Just change the internet locations where you choose to roll if you're over it.

The other day I was reading about Michael Scott from The Office and the description was like "He uses old memes like 'lame'". What the f***. Since when is a word a meme?

Invasive.

So you're sick of the word meme/s?

The only meme I really care about is mememolly.

I'm sick of the idea of memes. And I am sick of the websites that seem to just pump out memes like they're sausage links. And then call stuff memes that aren't, some are developments in language (like props), or in-jokes that don't spread very far. Too much meme... ing.
And then people find out something is a meme and want to meme it up even more.


We don't have to talk about this anymore, I am sick of hearing myself think about memes.

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Slow down there exemplar. It's not an issue of popularity.

At all.

The Ally McBeal baby was genuinely impressive, I had the f***ing screen saver. Everyone loved that s***.
That's like saying the Mona Lisa is a meme, or Die Hard 4 is a meme. It's not a meme, it's art that people like.

Using leet speak, or saying lol isn't a meme either, that is just the language of the Internet. That's why I had a problem with 'lame' being considered a meme. It's like people want to meme-ise everything in culture.

There still are plenty of popular funny things (memes, I guess) that get sent around that I have no problem with.

^ im creating a meme

reddit link

Thermite should stop complaining, imo.

Midda should have more substantial things to say, imo

I disagree.

All your base are belong to memes

LOL good reference too.

a meme is transient and quickly forgotten, spread virally as brand new pop culture. there is nothing classic about memes.

Oi, nar.

a meme is transient and quickly forgotten, spread virally as brand new pop culture. there is nothing classic about memes.

o rly?

ya rly

thats my take on it. i don't see us referring to memes from the 1950s, nor the 1850s.

I do seeeth what thou did tharily

thats my take on it. i don't see us referring to memes from the 1950s, nor the 1850s.

religion is the greatest meme of all

Ack, beaten by Khel.

But yeah, I'm sick more sick of people talking about memes without understanding the basics of memetics. A meme is basically the mental equivalent of a gene. So every little kernel of knowledge, experience and the like in your brain is part of the memetic fabric which makes up who you are as a person, just like the genes in your DNA produce who you phsyically are.

Internet fad would be a more correct term to describe lolcats and mudkips.

Edit:

religion is the greatest meme of all

LOL. I loved how Neil Stephenson described religion. He labeled Judaism as a first neurolinguistic virus. A person contracts the religion from the Torah, is told to pass it on to their descendants and make a duplicate of the Torah. Passes on just like a virus.

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What would you know! I make the internet for a living, and I don't appreciate those little pricks ruining it for me.

you do realise that you are not forced to view things on the internet. You yourself are a filter by what you access. An internet maker like yourself should know these things

...and here I was going out of my way to piss myself off! Idiot.

your mum is a meme

memes do tend to be on teh interwebz

lolcats

most come from 4chan which is mainly filled with anime fans, so it makes sense that most are anime based.
i dont find them funny but meh, each to their own