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I feel like "Meme" is slowly coming to mean "Image Macro"

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  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I always felt like that was a misuse of the term but I'm fighting a losing battle, just like how the # symbol itself is now called a "hashtag", whether the hash is followed by a tag or not
  • TreTre
    image
    yeah

    it's kind of had this meaning since at least whenever memegenerator.com became a thing
  • lee4hmzlee4hmz
    ⚠ THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
    #grocerybag
  • BeeBee
    honestly I can think of more memes off the top of my head that aren't image macros.  Probably more now than I could in the early days.
  • TatterhoodTatterhood
    Bee said:

    honestly I can think of more memes off the top of my head that aren't image macros.  Probably more now than I could in the early days.

    Yeah but people actually use the word "meme" to mean image macros now, is the point.

    They also use it to mean the other thing still, though.
  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/7Iil2JW.png
    lee4hmz said:

    #grocerybag

    I'M GUDDA GUDDA
  • LOAD CherryLOAD Cherry
    Splat Charger Specialist
    Bee said:

    honestly I can think of more memes off the top of my head that aren't image macros.  Probably more now than I could in the early days.

    Tumblr memes are often text phrases. An older example is "that sounds fake but ok"
  • KlinotaxisKlinotaxis
    kill living beings
    i think you kinda missed the bus on this one honestly
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    Klinotaxis said:

    i think you kinda missed the bus on this one honestly


  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    relatedly i have almost given up on correcting people who mention they saw a funny 'meh-meh' recently
  • CrystalCrystal
    Munch munch, chomp chomp...
    I've never heard that. Just meem or may-may.
  • eriophora ziaeriophora zia
    I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god
    I have never actually encountered may-may in real life. 
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i wasn't really distinguishing 'meh-meh' and 'may-may', they're similar enough to one another and both incorrect
  • TachyonTachyon
    edited 2016-09-29 22:19:16
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    . . . of course i am just now discovering that 'maymay' is, itself, a meme

    maybe i have been being trolled this entire time, although everyone who said it seemed surprised by 'meem'
  • Sredni VashtarSredni Vashtar
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Tachyon said:

    relatedly i have almost given up on correcting people who mention they saw a funny 'meh-meh' recently

    Mister Oshino/Miss Touwa has left the building. Apologies for the confusion.
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