• @[email protected]
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    4 months ago

    I don’t plan to have a kid, so could someone explain it to me?

    edit: when it’s a parent…,.

    • CEbbinghaus
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      504 months ago

      Glad you got there. And look it took you significant less time than the guy in the meme

      • @ripcord
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        4 months ago

        Wait, is any image now a meme? This isn’t a comic strip, in Comic Strips?

        • @[email protected]
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          64 months ago

          Always has been. A meme is a self replicating unit of information. The meme exclusionists are just engaged in historical revisionism.

        • @Viking_Hippie
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          54 months ago

          By most definitions, comic strips inherently qualify as memes so yeah, this is both.

            • @Viking_Hippie
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              74 months ago

              Not really, no.

              A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme

              The comic strip format could be characterized as a memetic style of communication that has spread by imitation from person to person.

              Such is not true of ferns, for example.

              • @Kelly
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                The idea of ferns, as a decorative plant, is most definitely a meme.

                However you are right that ferns, as a lifeform, fall under the category of genes.

        • Otter
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          A lot of comic strips do end up as memes

          I’d say that it only “becomes a meme” once it’s being shared around with small modifications, but when you see a comic for the first time then you might not know if that has happened already or not?

          Edit, it’s now a meme

        • @samus12345
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          Originally, no, this wouldn’t have qualified as a meme, but now it pretty much just means “any image that’s shared online for the purpose of entertainment”.

        • Farid
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          The definition is very vague now. And it definitely applies to any humorous images being spread using social media. And comics fall into that category.

  • @Thediehlio
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    I thought it became a dad joke when it was full groan…

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    I love that his face shows he’s thinking hard about it till he gets it

    Edit why blue tie for wedding?