Interestingly, these used to be called 'jokes' before memes existed.
It's like calling every photo of you a fucking selfie. It's only a selfie if you did it yourself of yourself. The end.
And yeah, I'm with you. Now every funny picture is a meme. No, it's just a funny picture.
Now get off my lawn!
You got my meme response now you get my academic reply.
A meme is a remix of an existing idea/joke/image. Unless you are creating something new whole cloth it could be considered a meme. Even though the term hadn't been coined, what Mark was doing with 3/4 of those autographs was altering the context of the card image, thus he did create memes.
Now get off my lawn.
ok grandpa let's get you back inside
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The Selfish Gene was first published in 1976, a year before Star Wars.
I was going to ask what people mean when they say "meme" now, because they do not seem to be using the word the way that I use it.
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. A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices, that can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena with a mimicked theme. Supporters of the concept regard memes as cultural analogues to genes in that they self-replicate, mutate, and respond to selective pressures. In popular language, a meme may refer to an Internet meme, typically an image, that is remixed, copied, and circulated in a shared cultural experience online.
Per Wikipedia, emphasis on what I consider the relevant bits. What way do you use it?
I’ve even seen recent writers struggle to describe self-replicating ideas as “mind-viruses” and the like. I dunno, if only there was already a word for that guys!
SCP introduced me to the concept of memetic viruses and attacks. Cool concept
MEMES JACK
THE DNA OF THE SOUL
My favourite joke of his is a very lowkey one: changing his twitter display name to Mar 🐫
That took me way to long to connect lol
I had to scroll back up to upvote it after it clicked
Don't worry, took me ages too 😂
MFW a post doesn't get enough upvotes.
You got 200 upvotes in under an hour. How many do you need King Xerxes?
YouMark Hamill got 200 upvotes in under an hour.I'm just a dirty reposter in this scenario.
The fuck is an upvote? This is Lemmy not reddit.
Hover your mouse pointer over those numbers on the webpage (which was coded by the Lemmy devs) - It says things like "2 points • 4 Upvotes • 2 Downvotes"
Reddit didn't invent those terms.
I assume the intended purpose is the same here as it is on Reddit - to flag spam, bots, and other intentional misuses of the platform. Maybe there are instances that don't utilize the feature?
Wew. Lots of Lucas and Disney fanbois it looks like based on the vitriol. I'm GenX. We lived through the "Gap of SW" where we made do with mid-good SW novels, toys, games, cameos and the occasional SW-related tv movies. We were so hyped to the heavens for the Prequels that we didn't see the warning signs when Lucas shat on SW by making the Special Editions. I walked out of the cinema in confusion after watching TPM. It's like a Believer being told by God himself that your religion is a sham. Lucas is a sfx visionary and world builder but he is a hack in script writing and needed people to tell him off. The actors like Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford frequently refused to act out the lines Lucas wrote. Carrie Fisher even became a script doctor due to her experience with Lucas' terrible scripts.
Wew. Lots of Lucas and Disney fanbois it looks like based on the vitriol.
I wish Mark Hamill was my cool uncle
Think the bong is still for sale?
Never tell me the odds!
So you’re telling me there’s a chance…!
I saw mark Hamill perform in a play once called Six dance lessons in six weeks. Rue Mclanahan from the Golden Girls played the female lead.
It was actually a really good play and I got to meet him during the opening night party afterwards. I was an idiot kid and asked him to sign the playbill with a MTFBWY or something dumb like that. He was visibly miffed, understandably, but still politely signed it "forcefully yours."
It wasn't until years later that I realized it was kind of rude of me to ask for that at the opening night party of a play he just worked really hard on. Must be real annoying having fanboys pestering you about a shitty movie you did decades ago. Anyway he seemed nice enough and it was a really good play. I got a pic with him around here somewhere, maybe I'll post if there's any interest.
Oh man, at least you reflected on that one. Forcefully yours is some top tier passive aggressive malicious compliance though, too funny.
He learned from the best... George Lucas did everything he could with Bill Moyers to open source the whole humanity meme pattern inspiration in Star Wars. He was trying to tie pre-film, pre-cinema, patterns to film. Passing down the meat and potatoes of society to each generation.
Kind of wild to think that Star Wars was filmed when "The Hero With A Thousand Faces" was cutting edge literary theory.
Damn, come to think of it he probably went to some of Joseph Campbell's lectures.
I went to Star Wars Celebration VI back in 2012 and it was $225 to get Mark Hammil's autograph. I opted instead to get Peter Mayhew's for $60. RIP Mr. Mayhew.
Mar🐪 is a legend of legends.
But he's too famous of an actor to write funny things, everybody knows that after you've been in a couple of big movies, you aren't allowed to do funny bits on the Internet anymore.
Maybe he's one of those "meme accounts" or something.
The fuckin bong joke is majestic. I assume he was pulling these out of his ass at signings, too. Nice handwriting, Mark.
I could never be famous enough to sign stuff, people would get it back like what the fuck is this? My sig would be all inconsistent, too. Hamill is a pro, though. Even back then.
You know? He handled going from nobody to Luke Skywalker pretty damned well all things considered.
Akin to a Trickster if you ask me.
