To be honest, propaganda is just a form of memetics.
Its not really a new concept, but its just "lol memes" and the internet that made memetics take on a new life.
The terrorists will shake in their boots as our meme army clogs their social networks.
Seriously though him lifting the printed out stack of macros got me good.
"Look at their fancy memes"
did he just relate terrorists to memes? what?
also, i loved the "look at their fancy memes compared to what we're not doing" at 0:20
This is why we need Trump.
He is the meme pope.
[QUOTE=Thlis;50482037]This is why we need Trump.
He is the meme pope.[/QUOTE]
this is why we needed a proto-socialist candidate like bernie
we must seize the memes of production
enough is enough no more shit memes
[QUOTE=LoneWolf_Recon;50482000]To be honest, propaganda is just a form of memetics.
Its not really a new concept, but its just "lol memes" and the internet that made memetics take on a new life.[/QUOTE]
The concept of memetics really is just the concept of spreading behavior and ideas. I don't know how the internet turned that definition into "pictures with text captions above and/or below."
[QUOTE=Lunik;50483519]The concept of memetics really is just the concept of spreading behavior and ideas. I don't know how the internet turned that definition into "pictures with text captions above and/or below."[/QUOTE]
Because calling something a meme sounds a lot nicer than calling something a fad.
[QUOTE=Lunik;50483519]The concept of memetics really is just the concept of spreading behavior and ideas. I don't know how the internet turned that definition into "pictures with text captions above and/or below."[/QUOTE]
because (epic) memes are literally at their core just cultural fads that we spread and evolve, yeah sure like everything from holidays to what kind of shoes we like to wear are technically memes, but to be fair (epic) memes are just straight up ideas that spread through our cultural unit like wildfire
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[QUOTE=Damian0358;50483557]Because calling something a meme sounds a lot nicer than calling something a fad.[/QUOTE]
its weird that i remember a time before it was 'memes' and we literally called them internet fads/video fads
[QUOTE=No Party Hats;50483582]but to be fair (epic) memes are just straight up ideas that spread through our cultural unit like wildfire[/QUOTE]
Not surprising, really, a lot of them use the same methodology used by polarizing tabloid and clickbait articles that are more about entertainment than news. Snappy headlines, gotchas, rallying cries and catchphrases, dramatization and building of heroes and villains, no room for nuance or context or second opinions.
So if there's people out there that don't do any research and just shape their worldviews based on such headlines and snippets, they're also likely to absorb information and opinions through memes, whether they joke about it or not.
what a time to be alive
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[QUOTE=No Party Hats;50483582]
its weird that i remember a time before it was 'memes' and we literally called them internet fads/video fads[/QUOTE]
I only really remember that being a YTMND thing because they didn't want to call them memes.
[QUOTE=Durrsly;50484423]I only really remember that being a YTMND thing because they didn't want to call them memes.[/QUOTE]
of course this is my extremely limited elementary school playground memory. me and my buddies were internet savvy but only in the sense that we browsed gprime and newgrounds, played runescape, watched youtube videos, and (for myself) browsed the photoshop contests here. I always remember 'this is sparta' and the lazer collection and all that being fad videos, but i could feel the meme wave break right as i hit like what, 7th grade?
Are Muslims hiding all the choice memes?
[QUOTE=Durrsly;50484423]I only really remember that being a YTMND thing because they didn't want to call them memes.[/QUOTE]
calling them memes came into use around 2008, they were generally called fads before then
[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;50486380]calling them memes came into use around 2008, they were generally called fads before then[/QUOTE]
by now it's evolved again to the point where image macros are called memes by the general public
I wonder how Richard Dawkins feels about the current state of "memes."
tbh this is an actual thing. the islamic state are really good at recruiting in social media surprisingly and we need to find a way to stop them from doing so.
THE MEMES JACK
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THE DNA OF THE SOUL
[QUOTE=Lunik;50483519]The concept of memetics really is just the concept of spreading behavior and ideas. I don't know how the internet turned that definition into "pictures with text captions above and/or below."[/QUOTE]
They'll always be advice puppy spinoffs to me
[QUOTE=No Party Hats;50483582]because (epic) memes are literally at their core just cultural fads that we spread and evolve, yeah sure like everything from holidays to what kind of shoes we like to wear are technically memes, but to be fair (epic) memes are just straight up ideas that spread through our cultural unit like wildfire
[editline]9th June 2016[/editline]
its weird that i remember a time before it was 'memes' and we literally called them internet fads/video fads[/QUOTE]
fads are memes, but memes aren't fads.
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