• Memes may contribute to teenage obesity, lawmakers told
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https://cnn.it/2CU6eO3 Lmao what
i was fat before i got into memes
Why am I not surprised Britain wants to ban memes
another way to shift the blame while ignoring the real issues
I think they might have some effect, but probably not as much as advertising.
posting the entire Bee Movie script is contributing to millennials' unhealthy desire to become bees
♫fuck bees♫
God forbid I go outside lest I become a chad
I think you meant obeesity.
https://youtu.be/8TDC9s-Kt-8
The study proposes a very weak connection: memes may contribute to obesity (and other health issues) if teenagers use them to normalize it. This assumes of course that teenagers don't understand that a meme is a joke. Pretty much on the level of "violent video games cause violence". You know what does cause obesity in teenagers? Depression! Go ahead and research bullying in schools and what we can do to prevent kids from getting mentally fucked up cause of it.
Its authors suggested teenagers should scrutinize the underlying themes in the memes they see, rather than simply enjoying them. It amazes me that people are able to suck the joy out of everything like this.
They're right you know. Look what memes did to Keanu Reeves. https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/357/861/3af.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUIObCgsfWA
Deep fried memes do have a lot of carbs. That's why you gotta go for diet memes.
The explanation in the article was even worse than I could have ever expected. I would have assumed that they were blaming obesity on kids spending too much time at the computer or on their phones looking at memes. But no, they're actually blaming memes specifically for making fun of obesity. They're literally arguing fat shaming is to blame for people being fat. What a bunch of bullshit. Now, I'm not going to go and say making fun of fat people is the best way to get them to fix themselves (it's not), but this is hilariously ignorant of actual, credible science. You eat too much food - especially too much shit food - while not exercising, and you get fat. It's as simple as that. Doesn't matter if your genetics are predisposed to obesity either. You're still not going to get fat if you go out for jog every day and eat decent food in normal portion sizes. And while there are legitimate physical reasons it is hard to permanently lose vast sums of weigh once you've packed on the pounds, we are not going to solve a damn thing by regulating jokes on the internet, which I assume is what these British academics ultiamtely want the UK government to do.
Do lawmakers think that every image with hashtag is meme
Its been my profile description for a while now, I'm fairly sure it crashes the page
Consider the average age of these people.
It opens fine but it refused to scroll at all for a full 5 seconds after I opened it :v
Memes ruined humanity
Memes are worth a thousand words lol
I now realize after this meme I like, I should go do something outside.
While I agree that it probably has a very small part in the epidemic at most, I'd also just like to remind people that we have an entire generation raised on the internet now and some of them inevitably won't understand it's a joke. They don't have our context. We are long, long past the days of "quit taking the internet seriously". The internet has actually become serious business, it hasn't been a "consequence-free playpen for weebs and gamers" since the mid-2000s. It's part of normal life now.
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