I’m well-versed and I don’t think the classical definition applies to memes as we know them now. I think it stopped being applicable with the rise of social media when the goal of sharing them changed. And with it, the goal of making them.
Memes have become a substitute for discourse. Using the internet nowadays often feels like I’m back in middle school talking to the kid who couldn’t go more than 2 sentences without quoting the Simpsons.
I think you’d get a lot of good from reading a bit about memetics and conceiving of “memes” as transmissible ideas vs captioned pics online
I’m well-versed and I don’t think the classical definition applies to memes as we know them now. I think it stopped being applicable with the rise of social media when the goal of sharing them changed. And with it, the goal of making them.
Memes have become a substitute for discourse. Using the internet nowadays often feels like I’m back in middle school talking to the kid who couldn’t go more than 2 sentences without quoting the Simpsons.
Yo, you went to school with Brock, too!?