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I'm sure you like some elements of a culture or system of behavior passed from one individual to another by imitation or other nongenetic means. Such as education or entertainment.
Its an older meme sir, but it checks out.
Yeah, probably.
yes
I like some but like anything the more that are pooped out the less often a good one shows.
No
Like ALL of them?
There are some i don't think are funny, there are some that are just stupid, and there are some that I just don't understand.
So, I'm not a fan of any of those, but to hate ALL memes seems like it's based on an unjust bias in your brain.
Like if someone went to YouTube for the first time and watched a couple of those immature "bro, it's just a prank!" channels and decided that they hated all internet video creators.
I'm of the opinion that everything that gets passed off as a meme isn't necessarily a meme. Sometimes they're just funny pictures. (Actual humor content may vary)
Memes should have something to do with a commonly understood phrase or thought in the culture and highlight those.
Of course, with enough push those funny pictures can become memes but ideally they would start as a meme and then have comedy added to them.
Of course, with enough push those funny pictures can become memes but ideally they would start as a meme and then have comedy added to them.
Ahh yes this would be a meta meme. Where the meme is only a meme because its self referencing.
Millhouse is not a meme.
I don't like it when I encounter them in the source material, like the council scene in Fellowship "One does not simply ______". It creates a sort of dissonance that takes me out of what I'm watching. They're sort of like malware for the brain from that perspective.
What do you consider to be memes? Just images/image macros? Gifs? Videos? Copy pastas? Do you dislike all of these, or just some?
Generically, I'd say memes are essentially just widespread "internet culture" inside jokes. Disliking humor or inside jokes is definitely not the norm.
No. Most memes just make me feel tired all over.
No, I completely get where you're coming from. As a blind person, they are just terrible. Because instead of saying what people want to say, they just post this damn picture that I can't read and completely kills any conversation. I block all communities that I can for memes just because it's pointless for me to have them show up.
Those are actually just one type of meme (called image macros, maybe?).
Rick Rolling is a meme, wazzup was a meme, Jingle Bella, Batman Smells" is a meme...there are lots of other things that are memes. Though I do have to admit that a lot of memes are visually-based.
This is the only valid reason to hate them as a whole.
I used to despise memes, back in the glory days of Y U NO and rage comics. Those are dead and gone now, so I'm much less of a grumpy old man now.
I used to hate them, so I understand where you’re coming from, but then I got a job at a company that uses Slack as its primary communications app, and memes and gifs became a genuinely joyful part of my day.
Some managers at my company communicate almost exclusively with gifs, which sometimes still annoys the hell out of me, but I have to keep reminding myself “Bertram, you have a good job, working with fun people who sometimes use too many gifs. It could be so so much worse.” And then I go back to laughing at the most absurdly ridiculous reaction gif my manager just sent as a response to a critical project delivery.
Yes. Something’s wrong with you
To many of us, that sounds like "I don't like humor". I really don't get you.
To be fair to OP, it's "I don't like this specific kind of humour". Which is a pretty normal thing to feel. There are a lot of comedy TV shows I don't find funny or find downright unpleasant, but that doesn't mean I don't like humour in general. Much as this overly-serious comment suggests otherwise.