• Ghyste
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    1 year ago

    Just curious… When did regular comics become memes?

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          1 year ago

          See? Doesn’t sound right at all.

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            1 year 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.

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            1 year ago

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

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      1 year ago

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

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        1 year ago

        That’s not really true though.

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      1 year 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.

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      1 year ago

      About the time Saruman abandoned reason for madness.