• @Ghyste
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    3911 months ago

    Just curious… When did regular comics become memes?

    • ReCursing
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      8011 months ago

      Around the time meme came to mean any joke in an image file format

      • MisterMoo
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        3711 months ago

        Gary Larson was my favorite memer. Ever seen The Far Side memes?

        • @Ghyste
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          1211 months ago

          See? Doesn’t sound right at all.

          • MisterMoo
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            2111 months ago

            Oh come on, who doesn’t remember reading the meme strips in the Sunday morning paper?

            When I got older I started enjoying meme books like Spider-Man, too.

            • AzuleBlade
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              511 months ago

              This is some Idiocracy shit, I feel like this’ll be the vernacular in the next 20-30 years. Hopefully an asteroid wipes us out first.

          • @[email protected]
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            711 months ago

            It doesn’t, and it’s annoying that pretty much any image displayed online is called a “meme” nowadays.

    • @[email protected]
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      1011 months ago

      Always has been by both the official definition of the word and the more modern internet use of it

      • @yata
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        011 months ago

        That’s not really true though.

    • @[email protected]
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      811 months ago

      Now that I think about it, maybe they always have been, sort of? The earliest memes I remember are the rage comics

      Though, I feel like “meme” = funny relatable thing nowadays.

    • @arkh2183
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      611 months ago

      About the time Saruman abandoned reason for madness.