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.
Actually the term was coined all the way back in the 70s, by Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene.
It means a cultural gene. It’s a piece of culture that is so pervasive it can be said to be a part of the genetic code of the society. Examples are the smiley face, tic tac toe or other simple common games, that S thing we all drew as kids, etc.
Not all jokes are memes, and not all memes are jokes.
It bugs me when people call any stupid little picture or comic a meme. It also bugs me when people say they are making a meme. One does not simply “make” a meme. It must become a meme on its own. Now if you’ll excuse me I’ve got some clouds to yell at.
This is the only well articulated rebuttal I have gotten so thank you for that. I still disagree on the usage of pervasive in the definition especially in the context of internet memes. A meme is culture spread person to person and while traditional memes such as the ones you listed are defined by their longevity, internet memes are often flash in the pan or incredibly niche.
Is it a meme now?
My old manual Minolta SR-7 camera had a timer button for selfies. I was cool before it was cool to be cool.
Listen up boomer, if you didn’t want people on your lawn, you shouldn’t have moved into a NIMBY WASPspsps HOA neighborhood.
/issues fines for grass over 1.12 inches high
http://www.vintagephoto.tv/fariestimer.shtml I don’t know how old your Minolta is, but this link describes the SECOND patent for a camera timer in 1902.
ok grandpa let’s get you back inside
The Selfish Gene was first published in 1976, a year before Star Wars.
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
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 😂
Mark Hamill showing how he’s such a Joker.
It was always in the cards.
Don’t beat that metaphor to death… there’s Robin for that
Akin to a Trickster if you ask me.
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.
What do you call them here?
“UpLem obviously.”
- @SupraMario@lemmy.world probably
Perfect!
Ascending Plebiscites.
Upvotes
Means of production
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?
Strange that I’ve seem someone complain about this before any usage of the term “sublemmy” instead of community.
I was more making a stupid joke, but people didn’t seem to like it lol
Yeah, I learned the hard way that using /s is 100% required these days.
Yes I’m noticing more people are just in fight mode these days, and anything that sounds like an argument, they go for the throat.
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 think my favorite Star Wars experiences overall are still the Dark Forces series and the X-Wing / Tie Fighter series. They expanded so well on what we had at the time and definitely messed with my expectations when the newer trilogies came out.
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…!
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.
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