Yes I just said that's the word's literal meaning

the usage of image macros is just because in 4chan you post images

and it was the easy way to spread them

there's text memes since forever too

well we're talking in the context of real life memeing which has more to do with expressions and behavior

Not sure what the point you're trying to make here is Belial.

expressions are usually community specific

Has anyone really been far as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

lol i like that one

All your base are belong to us!

the classics

today I learned the swastika meme in Asia

卍・まんじ

it's used for "cool" "powerful" and "posing for photos"

Fun fact - a specific term for a counterclockwise swastika is sauwastika

I think a meme is only really a meme while it grows and lives and is recontextualized, what I posted doesn't really count as a meme, as I'm doing nothing to recontextualize the idea. it's merely a reference

reversed it's usually used for "sexy"

Funnily enough language is a meme which is why the word meme has been able to evolve as new uses for it were found to be useful.

in that case it's the only useful meme i can think of

Memes as the term was originally intended are the genes of culture.

ewwwww.

"Genes of culture"

Ewwwwwwww

You actually said that eewwwwww

i'm not a big fan of culture, except when i agree with it

That's the simplest way to describe it as conceptualized by Richard Dawkins.

could there theoretically be a society without a culture?

Basically the thinking is that ideas that get spread throughout society, and useless and harmful ideas are discarded and useful ones are kept and improved upon, so our ideas go through a process of natural selection

I guess a society could exist without a dominant or unifying culture, but that would just mean plenty of subcultures

i guess

On the subject of memetics, reminder that Kojima was a prophet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKPDaiJTX9M

thats some interesting narrative and points, but some of the conclusions give me cancer, probably mostly intended to support whatever the story is

It's a bit more esoteric than MGS, but the 1983 cult classic Videodrome is eerily accurate on a lot of points, only it's predictions were for TV, not Internet

havent seen that one in a long time, might rewatch with that perspective

If you're talking about the conclusion of the dudes on the left they're the bad guys.

yeah i figured

unfortunately i grew up with the wrong consoles so i still haven't experienced the whole franchise

Oh MGS2's prediction of censorship is goddamn spooky

But at least there they explain the benevolent intentions of it

'IT'S NOT CENSORSHIP, IT'S CONTEXT.'

I never heard the evil person's point of view how it wasn't evil until then. u: