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Reef3  ·  3185 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How Minions Destroyed the Internet

I think the issue people have is more what they have become as filtered through the internet, and their pervasiveness, than what they are originally presented as. At least that's what I got out of the article.





keopi  ·  3185 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't really get it. How is it any worse than rage comics or image macros?

Reef3  ·  3185 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't know, they aren't. He says they are the perfect incarnation of them, or that they embody them. I don't think the headline really suits the article, they seem to be suggest different things. Everything is "breaking" the internet these days though.

keopi  ·  3185 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, I read the article and just kept thinking how this isn't really any different than any other meme. Even the examples in the article left me a little confused.

    The word “meme” means many things to many people (for instance, it is often incorrectly used as a synonym for, like, the fifty-sixth definition of “macro”), but in general, a meme is intrinsically bonded to a certain, often very granular emotion. Socially Awkward Penguin is tied to social awkwardness, Sweet Brown’s “Ain’t Nobody Got Time For That” is linked to being too busy, the facepalm is about being very disappointed, cereal guy is about being in the middle of eating but also wanting to add your two cents, the song “Friday” is about trying your best and failing but still having fun, etc.

People kind of use all image macros however they want too. But I guess a lot of people do complain about people using image macros incorrectly.