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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.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.


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[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 206 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What a weird thing to confess. And in public, no less.

[–] matlag@sh.itjust.works 34 points 2 weeks ago

He probably didn't even realize he was confessing.

[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 154 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Does that conversely also mean that a woman with a beard does not need to wear a hijab?

[–] red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 80 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

....are there any women here today?

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 33 points 2 weeks ago

Inquiring minds want to know.

[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 13 points 2 weeks ago

I think that a more likely to be considered possibility is bald women. Probably won't be though.

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[–] railway692@piefed.zip 81 points 2 weeks ago

"You're the problem for making me horny" is giving Count Frollo energy.

Work on yourself, find a twink who loves you back, and leave the rest of the world alone.

[–] gigachad@sh.itjust.works 73 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] dumbass@aussie.zone 41 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Man, that shit made me gay.

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago

I mean, I'd let Pedro Pascal turn me gay. No homo.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago

You know he can grow full facial hair? He just had to shave it all off. On account of losing Pedro Pascal's Wager

[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 44 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Transitioning most places
> shave
> makeup
> new wardrobe
> voice training
> hormones
> laser
> surgery
> therapy for all the times you get clocked regardless

Transitioning in Turkey
> shave
> congratulations, enjoy passing

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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 40 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

I don't know if this is disingenuous "reasoning" or, an honest position.

Ever since I came to understand that Flat Earthers weren't just trolls, like the way Birds Aren't Real folks ARE trolls, I've had trouble sussing out what's real and what's just bullshit "reasoning" to support bullshit ideals. I get now that I was just naive as to how incredibly stupid and evil people can be.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 56 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Flat earthers actually started as a troll, but people are really fucking stupid.

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 24 points 2 weeks ago

Society obviously has a range of critical thinking capability. It used to be that every village had its idiot and the village knew who that was, and thus who to promptly ignore. The problem with the internet, is that all the village idiots found each other and started to form their own villages online. Along the way those that weren't quite as dumb saw the groups they formed and thought, "Gee, that many people surely can't be wrong", and the groups got larger and larger until they were big enough to actually cause harm.

Sometimes, the seed of that stupidity were jokes and trolls. Flat Earth Theory was one of those seeds. Trump's political career was kickstarted by 4Chan taking advantage of the same online landscape and legacy media's inability to stay away from a constantly expanding train wreck that generates infinite ad revenue.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

FYI: Flat Earthers started out just like the Bird's Aren't Real people.

"Any group that gets its rocks off pretending to be stupid, eventually will be filled with actual stupid people who think they are in good company."

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

like the way Birds Aren’t Real folks ARE trolls

That was more a riff on the decades-long fear of mass surveillance. There's a degree of conspiracy theory on top of the conspiracy theory, in which a few niche corners of the internet assert the "Birds Aren't Real" guy was promoted as a means of deflecting attention from the Snowden Leaks and other surveillance whistleblowers.

I’ve had trouble sussing out what’s real and what’s just bullshit “reasoning” to support bullshit ideals.

Welcome to Post Modernist Mass Media. Manipulating public opinion is now more important than conveying anything that's actually useful.

[–] comeonitsnotlike@feddit.nu 8 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I know, it's beyond frustrating! I consider myself not smart at all, yet people actually believe the earth is flat? Like, I mean, like.. I don't know, it's just, it's like they're spitting in the face of humanity-stupid, it's not even fun. It's just beyond stupid.

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[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 37 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

If it's causing you "indecent thoughts" it's because you're gay and like clean-shaven guys, my man. I guess gay guys who like bearded men are allowed all the eye candy they want there as long as they don't touch.

[–] ShaunaTheDead@fedia.io 33 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

As a gay guy, I can see it

[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 weeks ago

Dude, I can even see it as a straight guy.

[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 weeks ago

How terrible! Where was he deported? Like what’s his address? …. Can he come stay with me?

[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

There are neighborhoods in LA with a reasonable supply of dudes who look like this.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 weeks ago

Reason #432 that conservatives are afraid of cities.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, he looks like an average Turkish or Bollywood handsome actor. Saudis basically reported on themselves with this.

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Naia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

As a lesbian I can say with certainty that men without beards don't look like women.

[–] Magnum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 2 weeks ago

Thank you, as a hetero sexual man I got so confused I almost turned gay. But you saved me.

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[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I was listening to a podcast the other day and it was saying that in some culture, I forget which, "a man" was defined as "wears a mustache and has a big hat" - because why wouldnt you have those if you could?

Funny how culture thinks it's the first and last word of a definition

So anyway, this guy has a beard and hat but no mustache, therefore not a man.

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[–] comeonitsnotlike@feddit.nu 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Religion is the worst idea, ever.

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[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 weeks ago

It's okay, just say "no homo" after thinking the thoughts and ur good.

[–] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, you're gay mate. You just aren't into bears...

[–] Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Thought you were talking about me for a second and I was about to say "No... no I'm very much into bears. Or rather I prefer when bears are in me."

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[–] manxu@piefed.social 14 points 2 weeks ago

As the old disco song says, "Ain't no closet big enough!" for this preacher

[–] ShaunaTheDead@fedia.io 14 points 2 weeks ago

Add another panel where they're making out

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

It's almost like it's normal to have those thoughts and your need to punish yourself for those thoughts is a you problem, not an us problem, eh?!

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I'm gonna come right out and say it:

A beard with no moustache looks weird.

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He must be a fan of the popular Australian band 'The Beards' and their popular ditty: "If your dad doesn't have a beard then you've got two mums" and other excellent beard related songs.

Old mate probably just got lost in translation.

[–] fittedsyllabi@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

That’s another way of admitting you’re gay, I guess.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Just another example of how the most anti-gay people must be in the closet because anyone who isn't should immediately know from their own experience that being tempted by other men says more about the one being tempted than the one "tempting" by just being there.

So these people that hear this shit don't think anything unusual about it, which implies to me that they can relate to feeling tempted and are thus in the closet themselves.

Of course, they (the followers) might just not be using any critical thought, which is why I'm going to keep saying it and do the critical thinking for them. If you hate gays that much, why do you follow people that are so obviously gay (or bi) but in denial?

Or if being gay is a choice, why don't more people who don't have a problem with it make that choice?

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago

It’s super weird how they care so much about this shit. It’s like they made an HOA into a religion.

[–] slothrop@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago

Women with beards are hot to straight women.

[–] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago
[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 weeks ago

The teacher doth protest too much...

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