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Nostradingus posted:My brother-in-law is a hardcore imgurite and I can confirm that he does brag about his upvotes. He has never made the front page though which actually makes it sadder. Whhhyyyy I seriously can't think of something less noteworthy. I'd rather share stories of daily poops than hear about someone's status on an Internet website. At least I can relate to taking a really nice dump.
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Boofchicken posted:Do you think these people walk around telling their friends, teachers, parents, etc., about how they got on the front page of imgur?
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Nostradingus posted:My brother-in-law is a hardcore imgurite and I can confirm that he does brag about his upvotes. He has never made the front page though which actually makes it sadder. How does he work that into conversation? "Hey bro-in-law? Dis you watch the football last night?" "Indeed, our team played so well that I wished I could upvote them. ... On the topic of upvotes..."
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Jul 17, 2015 02:43
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Image macros are terrible but that penguin one is some next level garbage. The source picture isn't even humorous and since my only context is this thread I can only assume it's just an outlet for the lamest humble brag possible.
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Jul 17, 2015 06:14
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NESguerilla posted:Image macros are terrible but that penguin one is some next level garbage. The source picture isn't even humorous and since my only context is this thread I can only assume it's just an outlet for the lamest humble brag possible. If I remember my advice animals correctly, the blue penguin thing is Socially Awkward Penguin, which is for when you do stupid terrible awkward nerd things in public that absolutely need to be turned into memes. Like when the cashier at the cinema says "Enjoy your movie!" and you reply "Thanks, you too." Everyone feels much better as a person knowing that this happened to you. The red penguin is uhhhhh I can't remember but it's when you do awesome things that AREN'T socially awkward, basically. Very rarely used except when you do half blue penguin and half red penguin, like this, where you start out doing something stupid and awkward but somehow turn it around into what I believe is called an  "Epic Win". And yes, it's pretty much always used for humblebrags.Advice animals and other image macros are possibly the stupidest things to ever exist. At least baby snot sucking devices exist because babies have hosed up noses and poo poo. Image macros have no reason for being.
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Image Macros exist because they take all the effort out of telling stories on the Internet. There is barely any text and since they are usually made for other people knowing the macro, they immediately let you know how to feel about the story. It's the laziest and most automated way of communicating. (I always like to think it's great for empathy deprived nerds since it communicates what the author and you are supposed to be feeling.) Also yes what you said about the penguins is right, blue = socially awkward, red = socially awesome and mixed ones mean it started out as good/bad and ended up being bad/good. When I was younger and dumber I loved rage comics and other assorted dank memes.
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Jul 17, 2015 09:31
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Fathis Munk posted:Image Macros exist because they take all the effort out of telling stories on the Internet. There is barely any text and since they are usually made for other people knowing the macro, they immediately let you know how to feel about the story. Reminds me of TV tropes
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It's kind of facinating how memes have developed. Way back when I first found them (2003) they were pretty much shorthand references for obscure in-jokes developed out of 4chan or Something Awful and usually linked to to YTMND, which pretty much was the Imgur of the day. If you got the reference you clearly were "in" with the crowd. This didn't stop a ton of people attempting to force in memes of their own. I do recall de-motivational posters tended to be used for memes involving some sort of joke and punchline and I guess could be the precursor to memes that have a narrative given the format was the perfect template for cynicism. The main shift was when rage comics became big around 2008 and then got coupled to easy to use generators which just built up with more and more avenues to easily deliver summaries of imaginary first world problems processed through sheltered minds. You could argue the whole advice animals set is a shorthand form of a rage comic. You also could argue that memes and macros are evolved forms of emoticions. It's fascinating how the basics haven't actually changed as you sort of have to know the meaning behind penguins and bears to understand the context which will always be shifting based on generations. Not many who are 20 today would get: 
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I remember a few years ago trying to explain what a meme was to someone and pronouncing it maymay because I'd never heard it said aloud. The Labrador is the first one I recall. Rage Comics really were the accelerant that caused internet culture to ender the popular consciousness. It's still strange hearing them discussed in the real world for example at the Ubisoft E3 conference they said something along the lines of "like it, share it, make new memes about".
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EmmyOk posted:I remember a few years ago trying to explain what a meme was to someone and pronouncing it maymay because I'd never heard it said aloud. The Labrador is the first one I recall. Rage Comics really were the accelerant that caused internet culture to ender the popular consciousness. It's still strange hearing them discussed in the real world for example at the Ubisoft E3 conference they said something along the lines of "like it, share it, make new memes about". I loving hate it when people call them "may mays" or "me mes" when it's literally a word already and it's pronounced "meem".
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Jul 17, 2015 17:37
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 Memes are really interesting and I'd love to see some actual good studies on their history and evolution. Part of the whole point is that they evolve kinda like genes, mutating as they get passed along in the population.
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I'm particularly interested how meme entered the common parlance. I know it was the word Dawkins used for as Fathis Monk said being a cultural idea that passes on like genes, but how it went from that to being a catch all for image macros is weird to me. It makes sense as a term for those things but it's weird that at some point people said "these recurring image jokes are examples of memes". Or is it that Dawkins coined the term specifically to refer to these?
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Jul 17, 2015 18:09
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EmmyOk posted:I'm particularly interested how meme entered the common parlance. I know it was the word Dawkins used for as Fathis Monk said being a cultural idea that passes on like genes, but how it went from that to being a catch all for image macros is weird to me. It makes sense as a term for those things but it's weird that at some point people said "these recurring image jokes are examples of memes". Or is it that Dawkins coined the term specifically to refer to these? I remember hearing it as early as 2003-ish on livejournal, in reference to surveys or games or whatever that you were supposed to pass around and tag other people on.
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Jul 17, 2015 18:16
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Fathis Munk posted:
poo poo goes to the next level when you realize that memes can have counter-memes and they actually work together to reproduce more in people's brains. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc  psychology is a motherfucker
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Jul 17, 2015 18:18
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EmmyOk posted:I'm particularly interested how meme entered the common parlance. I know it was the word Dawkins used for as Fathis Monk said being a cultural idea that passes on like genes, but how it went from that to being a catch all for image macros is weird to me. It makes sense as a term for those things but it's weird that at some point people said "these recurring image jokes are examples of memes". Or is it that Dawkins coined the term specifically to refer to these? Dawkins defined it in The Selfish Gene as a unit of cultural transmission. Some examples were fashion and learned skills.
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Jul 17, 2015 18:31
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Didn't something awful start the whole impact font on a picture thing?
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Jul 17, 2015 18:39
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Bobby Digital posted:Dawkins defined it in The Selfish Gene as a unit of cultural transmission. Some examples were fashion and learned skills.  Speaking of, why the hell are they called macros?
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Jul 17, 2015 19:01
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There is only one possible way to pronounce it, how can you pronounce it wrong unless you're saying "me me"?
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droppin ovaries in this hoe bitch
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Jul 17, 2015 19:17
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Zaphod42 posted:poo poo goes to the next level when you realize that memes can have counter-memes and they actually work together to reproduce more in people's brains. Simple ideas but really well explained and quite interesting.
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Jul 17, 2015 19:18
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Stay off reddit dudes, and you won't have to worry about your hard drive filling me Stay here and absorb all the cuck jokes and doobie dogz instead
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hyperhazard posted:The first time I learned what memes were was in a social psych book in college, and it was exactly this. It confused the hell out of me when people started using it to refer to image macros. But at least I knew how to pronounce it correctly According to Wikipedia: quote:The term "image macro" originated on forum websites.[2] The name derived from the fact that the "macros" were a short bit of text a user could enter that the forum software would automatically parse and expand into the code for a pre-defined image.[2] This in turn related to the computer science topic of a macro, defined as "a rule or pattern that specifies how a certain input sequence (often a sequence of characters) should be mapped to an output sequence (also often a sequence of characters) according to a defined procedure".
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goose fleet posted:There is only one possible way to pronounce it, how can you pronounce it wrong unless you're saying "me me"? Someone I know pronounces it "may-mm", as in rhyming with game, and refuses to believe it's pronounced otherwise.
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EmmyOk posted:I'm particularly interested how meme entered the common parlance. I know it was the word Dawkins used for as Fathis Monk said being a cultural idea that passes on like genes, but how it went from that to being a catch all for image macros is weird to me. It makes sense as a term for those things but it's weird that at some point people said "these recurring image jokes are examples of memes". Or is it that Dawkins coined the term specifically to refer to these?
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Splicer posted:The Venn diagram of "people who considered Dawkins the second coming but never actually read or understood any of his books" and "college students who spent all day on social media sharing stupid surveys" was practically a circle in the early/mid 2000s. Haha that's true. I liked Dawkins a few years ago when I was 19/20 then I read The God Delusion and thought he was a oval office. I've a copy of The Blind Watchmaker too though, a pal of mine says his religious books are bad but his books on biology are quite good.
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EmmyOk posted:Haha that's true. I liked Dawkins a few years ago when I was 19/20 then I read The God Delusion and thought he was a oval office. I've a copy of The Blind Watchmaker too though, a pal of mine says his religious books are bad but his books on biology are quite good. The Greatest Show On Earth is a book everyone should read. I agreed with pretty much all of The God Delusion and it still annoyed the poo poo out of me.
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Jul 17, 2015 19:47
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Verisimilidude posted:I loving hate it when people call them "may mays" or "me mes" when it's literally a word already and it's pronounced "meem". Used to have a friend who pronounced it memmy 
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Jul 17, 2015 20:39
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goose fleet posted:There is only one possible way to pronounce it, how can you pronounce it wrong unless you're saying "me me"?  that's wrong.Its "Meem". Its always been "meem".
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Jul 17, 2015 20:42
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Zaphod42 posted:
That doesn't answer his question. E: Some people with a French background may automatically read "meme" in a French accent, which sounds like "mem".
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Jul 17, 2015 20:48
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Zaphod42 posted:
He knows "me me" is wrong, He's saying "how else, besides me-me, can you be pronouncing it wrong" Vic Boss posted:E: Some people with a French background may automatically read "meme" in a French accent, which sounds like "mem". ngl I thought it was that at first
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sweeperbravo posted:He knows "me me" is wrong, He's saying "how else, besides me-me, can you be pronouncing it wrong" Oh I see. My b. Yeah "mem" would be wrong but "me me" is the typical wrong answer, yeah.
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Jul 17, 2015 21:01
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I know folks who pronounce "anime" without the e. "Anim". First time I didn't catch on what they were talking about until two minutes later and now it's super awkward every time.
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Jul 17, 2015 21:03
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My Lovely Horse posted:I know folks who pronounce "anime" without the e. "Anim". First time I didn't catch on what they were talking about until two minutes later and now it's super awkward every time. What? Is this just one of those "never heard it pronounced" before or did they have some dumb reason for pronouncing it that way? You say 'they' like there's more than one person doing it. I couldn't care less about anime but that would drive me nuts too.
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Jul 17, 2015 21:36
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Vic Boss posted:That doesn't answer his question. My wife pronounces it this way and it drives me up a loving wall.
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Jul 17, 2015 21:56
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The fact that you guys are dealing with memes so often you have to learn how to say the word makes me sad as gently caress for you duders
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ElGroucho posted:The fact that you guys are dealing with memes so often you have to learn how to say the word makes me sad as gently caress for you duders I was a college student within the past decade, and am a person who grew up to be a poster on the Something Awful Forums. Saying "meme" aloud isn't really that much of a stretch
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My Lovely Horse posted:I know folks who pronounce "anime" without the e. "Anim". First time I didn't catch on what they were talking about until two minutes later and now it's super awkward every time. I pronounced "anime" as "an-eye-m" until I was like 15. 
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Jul 17, 2015 22:47
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Actually it's ah-nah-ma
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Big Grunty Secret posted:Actually it's ah-nah-ma Po-tah-toe
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Friend of a friend had never heard the word "halibut" pronounced, so he ordered a plate of grilled hall-ah-boo.
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