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Pre-memes.
There was no creative expression before memes were invented? (To be clear, my position is that you are selling memes short. "They are stupid" misses the entire point of what's valuable about them, and more importantly, which ones are valuable.)
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say what you will about memes but i think that the fact that people are making memes hints at the fact that they are trying to fill some sort of creative void. yes, they are stupid but it's a step up from the previous state which was no creative expression at all.
> the previous state which was no creative expression at all. The previous state of what? When was this?
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say what you will about memes but i think that the fact that people are making memes hints at the fact that they are trying to fill some sort of creative void. yes, they are stupid but it's a step up from the previous state which was no creative expression at all.
The previous state was using text to get a thought across. That's not creative?
It's pretty bizarre how 4chan of all places turned out to be the cultural epicenter of this generation. All these meme pages are just reposting content from there.
honesty fosters new art
It's pretty bizarre how 4chan of all places turned out to be the cultural epicenter of this generation. All these meme pages are just reposting content from there.
And of course, by the time it's on Facebook and "regular teens" use it, it's as far removed from 4chan as HN is. Post one of these memes there and you'll get flamed for being a "normalfag".
wired: #dicksout for Harambe
There needs to be a consistent freedom-of-information style mechanism where someone can request a review of a decision by a human, and a non-generic explanation, accompanied by a chance to download a copy of the deleted content.
really thought provoking material here
say what you will about memes but i think that the fact that people are making memes hints at the fact that they are trying to fill some sort of creative void. yes, they are stupid but it's a step up from the previous state which was no creative expression at all.
memes are the only culture we're producing right now
really thought provoking material here
for me, memes were part of rehabilitating political views I might have never considered as legitimate otherwise
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say what you will about memes but i think that the fact that people are making memes hints at the fact that they are trying to fill some sort of creative void. yes, they are stupid but it's a step up from the previous state which was no creative expression at all.
fill some sort of creative void memes are the only culture we're producing right now