It's an old one, but it checks out.
Well, maybe not the ONLY one, but an extreme minority probably.
Are you like old? "Kids and their new fangled me me's. Back in MY day we used the funnies in the NEWSPAPER to get a laugh" Kinda old?
Yes.
Young, but old-fashioned.
Yes. Yes, you are.
I’m not sure it’s possible. There are good memes and bad memes, to say you don’t like memes in general doesn’t really make sense. If you see something funny with a picture and some words that resonates with you, you’ve enjoyed a meme. What you’re saying is you’ve seen things that you would find funny or relatable but because it was delivered in image and word form it’s no longer funny or relatable?
Memes are a thing of the internet.
We never had them growing up.
There’s not too much difference between a meme and a single panel comic or political cartoon at this point.
“Meme” had a much narrower definition not that long ago…
Are you only allowed to like things that you liked when you were growing up?
Memes arent actually from the Internet, only this particular form of text on a picture meme is. And that particular style has historical precursors in actual physical newspapers.
A good way to think of them is a shared in-joke repeated. If you and your friends keep making the same joke, that's a meme. Yo mama jokes are a meme.
The Wilhelm scream in films is a meme. It's often used as a joke by sound designers and done so repeatedly by practically everyone in the industry.
Also memes are just equivalent to ‘in-jokes’ you have with your friends. I imagine it’s not possible to dislike all jokes entirely (save some neurodivergence I guess idk) but it’s normal to have preferences. I imagine you would need to find the right memes for you, or be part of the culture and communities where they’re coming from to help provide context.
You absolutely had memes growing up, they just weren't called that at the time (or they were, but not popularized as such).
Go read Richard Dawkins' "Meme: The selfish gene" (1976)
Why don't you like memes? Is it the format? The sense of humor? Keeping up with current trends? Saying you don't like memes is like saying you don't like jokes.
I never had memes growing up.
So you don’t like anything new? Yea that’s weird, there are objectively beneficial new things like technological and medical advancements, social things like being accepting of gay people, etc..
Yes you did.
Memes have been around possibly longer than written language in various forms.
The definition of "meme" is:
A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another.
A lot of the memes on lemmy are shit, but still, they've been around.
Like ALL of them?
There are some i don't think are funny, there are some that are just stupid, and there are some that I just don't understand.
So, I'm not a fan of any of those, but to hate ALL memes seems like it's based on an unjust bias in your brain.
Like if someone went to YouTube for the first time and watched a couple of those immature "bro, it's just a prank!" channels and decided that they hated all internet video creators.
I'm of the opinion that everything that gets passed off as a meme isn't necessarily a meme. Sometimes they're just funny pictures. (Actual humor content may vary)
Memes should have something to do with a commonly understood phrase or thought in the culture and highlight those.
Of course, with enough push those funny pictures can become memes but ideally they would start as a meme and then have comedy added to them.
To many of us, that sounds like "I don't like humor". I really don't get you.
To be fair to OP, it's "I don't like this specific kind of humour". Which is a pretty normal thing to feel. There are a lot of comedy TV shows I don't find funny or find downright unpleasant, but that doesn't mean I don't like humour in general. Much as this overly-serious comment suggests otherwise.
yes
Yeah, probably.
No, I completely get where you're coming from. As a blind person, they are just terrible. Because instead of saying what people want to say, they just post this damn picture that I can't read and completely kills any conversation. I block all communities that I can for memes just because it's pointless for me to have them show up.
This is the only valid reason to hate them as a whole.
Those are actually just one type of meme (called image macros, maybe?).
Rick Rolling is a meme, wazzup was a meme, Jingle Bella, Batman Smells" is a meme...there are lots of other things that are memes. Though I do have to admit that a lot of memes are visually-based.
Its an older meme sir, but it checks out.
Back then things were more stringent and memes had fixed formats. The same set of pictures, posted over and over again with new text - I can see how one might dislike those. But nowadays the definition is kinda watered down and meme just boils down to "funny picture", even if they are only posted once. I don't think you can dislike those in their entirety without just disliking fun itself.
Really depends what you mean by "memes".
In general.
So, like, any self-propogating idea, you don't like it?
Congrats on your unique brain architecture, I guess. When the rest of us are destroyed by parasitic thought-worms, you'll be there to continue the human race...
Yes. Something’s wrong with you
In the sense that they make up the vast majority of what is disseminated in our primary digital social spaces, are often pandering to a small set of intellectual properties that people use to define themselves, and end up shaping the way we then respond to the world around us in derivative, abbreviated ways that doesn't foster deep interaction? Kinda, yeah. It gets repetitive.
Blocking certain users and magazines helps. Unfortunately, and moreso in the fediverse, it doesn't unearth much else, tbh. It's just what we be doing in this era. I think there are a lot of societal factors influencing that.
At the same time, the right meme still gives me that dopamine hit. Big fan of greentexts, for example. So I don't dislike memes, per se. Just the glut of them.
I used to hate them, so I understand where you’re coming from, but then I got a job at a company that uses Slack as its primary communications app, and memes and gifs became a genuinely joyful part of my day.
Some managers at my company communicate almost exclusively with gifs, which sometimes still annoys the hell out of me, but I have to keep reminding myself “Bertram, you have a good job, working with fun people who sometimes use too many gifs. It could be so so much worse.” And then I go back to laughing at the most absurdly ridiculous reaction gif my manager just sent as a response to a critical project delivery.
I'm sure you like some elements of a culture or system of behavior passed from one individual to another by imitation or other nongenetic means. Such as education or entertainment.
What do you consider to be memes? Just images/image macros? Gifs? Videos? Copy pastas? Do you dislike all of these, or just some?
Generically, I'd say memes are essentially just widespread "internet culture" inside jokes. Disliking humor or inside jokes is definitely not the norm.
No. I don't care for them either. They're lazy attempts at humor. Some are mildly amusing, but mostly they're shit. What's disturbing is that they've become a form of communication, and the grammar and syntax of kids are showing that. Memes are making them dumb.
No. Most memes just make me feel tired all over.
I like them fine for the purpose of humor. Like cat memes and such. But when people use them as a means to respond to a discussion instead of actually stating their opinion- like the kids in Hexbear, it’s childish and cringy.
No
I used to despise memes, back in the glory days of Y U NO and rage comics. Those are dead and gone now, so I'm much less of a grumpy old man now.
I like the memes that aren't abused through applying them at everything when they don't fit the context.
I also don't mind memes unless they're going to be used as someone's second language.
I don't like it when I encounter them in the source material, like the council scene in Fellowship "One does not simply ______". It creates a sort of dissonance that takes me out of what I'm watching. They're sort of like malware for the brain from that perspective.
I like some but like anything the more that are pooped out the less often a good one shows.
