What's a better form of entertainment in this digital age than scrolling through some funny memes? Especially when you've had a really tough day or week. Sometimes, even your favorite show or movie seems to require too much brain power. So opting for a quick but effective fix in the form of some random memes is often your best bet.
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At this point, most of us are familiar with what the word 'meme' means. In 1976, Richard Dawkins called it "ideas that spread from brain to brain." In today's Internet culture, that's especially apt because memes tend to spread like wildfire on different social media platforms. The more accurate description for today would perhaps be that the ideas spread from device to device.
The first example of what memes look like is an image from the Judge Magazine issue in 1921. It's the original "Expectations vs. Reality" type of picture. Yet people don't consider it to technically be a meme. Why? Because it didn't have the virality aspect. For a picture, a video, or a quote to become a meme, people have to copy it and share it.
I've actually done that a couple times. The looks on their faces made me giggle a little. 😄
I've done that too. But I try to only do it to a-holes.
Load More Replies...But it is acceptable to say "Please excuse me. I'm just going to . . ." and walk away.
It’s not acceptable? Well that certainly explains a lot. No wonder I can’t make any new friends.
as long as they can do it with you too, preferably when you really wanna share something special.
And not the aggressive "don't care" but the passive "don't care". it's important to know which is which
It is acceptable, if you're 3 years old. Man I love toddlers, with their hilarious rudeness.
Little kids are great because they haven’t learned the duplicity of their elders just yet.
Load More Replies...Yeah, I don´t get, why it seems to be more acceptable to lie than to be frank. If the other person doesn´t get it (implying you sent signals, verbally and non verbally before) and wont stop Yodeling away, who is the more unsociable one? And I think it much more acceptable to (politely) ask for a stop of conversation, if it is necessary. Or it´s just me being German...
Load More Replies...I say,oh look at the time. Lift up my sleeve and stare at the watch im not wearing
The best part is the 👁👄👁 look on their face when you do it. Don't forget to throw in a "I thought you said you appreciated honesty" for a little flavor as you walk away😆
I've always enjoyed "Oh, excuse me..." And then just walk away. Leave them guessing, but leave!
"oh, sorry... I've been expecting this phone call. Let's pick this up at a later date..."
My husband tends to get annoyed when I always end up kn a different room from him
That's my life right there. I'm known as the girl who doesn't care about anything
People actually do this. Not me, but I've been subjected to it and it is jarring and rude. Actually, people just walk away from me without saying anything. Now THAT is super rude and possibly psychopathic behaviour. I'm no psychiatrist, but it seems to take 0 empathy nor care to do that to someone.
I once tried "this is very unpleasant to talk with you so i m gonna leave".
Do it. You'll feel a lot more free. As I've gotten older sometimes I just don't give a s**t. The stuff that comes out of my mouth sometimes. I don't care.
I don't know if it's socially acceptable, but I've done that a lot of times. Especially to people who always seem to be in the middle of a Greek tragedy.
I have learned that it's totally socially acceptable to just walk away from a conversation. It's an amazing power!
Yes! "OK Kim that's enough". She called me to describe a tragedy and kept it up with more and more sad details until I had to make it stop. Don't let people drag you into their 'Oh ain't it awful' game. Don't borrow sorrow. If you're not getting enough go volunteer at a children's hospital or hospice or somewhere that you could be doing some good. Nevermind 'socially acceptable' go for socially beneficial.
don’t worry, if they start talking about nfts or elon musk, it is absolutely socially acceptable to do that
I'm n customer service. I wear a hat that says Shhh No one cares. The customers love it! Lol
Why use words? Make a "huh?" face and walk away. You'll always be known as eccentric 😵💫😅
I tell non-stop talkers that I'm sorry but I'm tired and I have to go lay down. It usually works and the look on their faces is puzzlement...
it is, if you aren't bothered by people thinking you're an a*****e! but honestly, it should be, considering the oversharing nature of many people thanks to social media, and the number of people with autism/anxiety/adhd/etc
Why not ? Sometimes people just talk rubbish and this is appropriate comment !
Once when Dad was pontificating at the dinner table, Mom dismissively hit him with the back of her hand and said, "Okay, stop talking about that. You're boing me." After a moment of stunned silence, we all burst out laughing, but it totally worked.
Go ahead and do it! It is a moment of complete and utter satisfaction.
Funny stuff! I always think of the Seinfeld quotes "Nodding off" and "Faster".
I used to end conversations with my ex that way. He could rant for hours about something really meaningless.
Lifehack : If socially acceptable is still a concern, then you still care. It's not as bad as you think, you just can't see beyond the edges of the hole you're in right now. Hang in there.
In my German language class today we were discussing how people respond to foreigners. I am now aware that when I attempted to ask a question, some people just said “I dont know” as a way out of having a conversation…..
it isnt social aceptable!!! phones several people to aposgize
It really depends upon the situation I guess. If the other person is being very rude and starting to cross personal boundaries? Then yup just say politely as you can a version of I don't care and walk away etc but if someone is opening up about something that's hurting them for the first time? Yes it might be uncomfortable to hear but they are opening up so try and listen because they may need your help and walking away saying, I Don't Care could harm them further.
I do that all the time, but sometimes a dose of sarcasm works wonders.
It’s extremely insensitive to do this to your friends. What matters to them should matter to you because it matters to you how they feel
I do it any way … especially if I’ve lost the thread of the conversation.
All of the time… People=s**t. Easy; ‘I don’t care’ are the best words in the english language.
Forget about socially acceptable…….i do that all the time. Recovered Former People Pleaser
One reason evolution supplied us with bladders is to take care of this situation. Saying "I have to go to the bathroom" says nothing about having to come back.
Oh, Skylar, your time will come. Give it a few more decades. Old age has a way of dispensing with the concern of social acceptance and getting down to the basics, which are, I don't have time for this bs and I'm so outta here.
I have recently stopped trying to mask my autism. Pretending I care when I don't always used to end up badly. Now I don't mask, I can say clearly that, though I understand that someone is upset by something, it's not something that upsets me. Pisses people off hugely but they always end up pissed off with me when I try to fake an interest so, I get to be me and I get the sane s****y reaction either way.
We would get along well. I don't want to bore people and appreciate it if someone gives me a heads up if I am going off the rails
Load More Replies...I’d like this from the other perspective too. See how my jokes and witty anecdotes are landing
The times I’d like to say: this conversation is boring; then walk away. Countless…
I do anyway, socially acceptable or no. Life's too short.
I feel like "I don't care" is my most used phrase! Never realised it wasn't sociably acceptable - however, I don't care ...
Well there's the alternative "I'm terribly sorry but I think you are confusing me with someone who cares"
Load More Replies...was having a discussion with my boss when he spotted someone he needed to talk to and just walked away while i was talking
So you mean saying nothing and just walk away is not socially acceptable?
Making yourself miserable for the sake of what's "socially acceptable" is seriously flawed logic. If you're not causing injury to anyone by walking away, then fucƙ what "society" thinks.
Straight white people (especially males) do this all this all the time when they have privilege and things don't affect them. This needs to ~stop~ being "socially acceptable".
My response is “ Its not that I don’t care, it’s that I don’t care to hear it.”
I work with people who do that. Engineers, programmers, tech types, are more likely to be comfortable doing this.
That happens to me all the time. At this point I don’t even question it when someone ghosts me
Had this many years ago on a tour bus in Belgium. A couple arguing loudly in French. She shouts something at him and he comes back with "I don't care" in English, but with a gallic accent. Everyone on the bus roared laughing.
My dad’s done this since we learned to talk: “I don’t care about that,” he interrupts. It suddenly dawns on me I’m gonna do it to him, assuming I see him before he dies. I wanna see how he likes it!
Nowadays, what we consider to be memes is so widely known that even a non-chronically online person would know them. There probably isn't a young person who wouldn't recognize Drake gesturing 'nuh-uh' from his "Hotline Bling" video or that screenshot from an anime with the butterfly with the caption "Is this [blank]?"
Yet, it is a sort of secret language. More niche memes allow individuals with similar interests to communicate things others might not know about. One person could be well-versed in philosophy memes but know absolutely nothing when they see a Formula 1 meme.
Linguist Rebecca Garcia claims that memes are not so much a language of their own but a graphic form of speech. "Just as language and writing is a form of communication, so are memes. Even though these images incorporate only short written messages, they’re usually understood by the receiver or audience."
Mens beauty line is starting to expand more and more. Eventually it'll be as bad as wonens. Just give it some time.
Memes don't represent the way we write. They're an expression of how we talk. The way we speak is more informal than how we express ourselves in writing. "We mirror our speech patterns in memes. Therefore, when we communicate with memes, we are communicating with a graphic form of speech," Garcia writes in her Public Linguist blog.
Got it. Develop the most attractive allergic reaction ever to makeup.
You don't want to absorb too much serotonin. you need a field of it per se, to allow proper neuron communication. People with low serotonin are put on SSRI meds(Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor). This slows the re-absorption of serotonin, allowing the levels in the brain to rise and re-establishing effective neural firing (the lack of which can cause depression. I have inherited GAD anxiety myself, so SSRI meds don't work. I take SNRI [Selective Noradrenaline Reuptake Inhibitors] meds instead, as Noradrenaline is to anxiety as Serotonin is to depression).
We tend to communicate through pictures on social media more than with words. We send GIFs, emojis, and, of course, memes. But with memes, it's not about the image itself. In 2015, researcher Walter Jose Castañeda concluded in his study that the meme image is what matters, not the image in the meme. "[Memes] obviate any relationship that their components may have with the image from which they originate," he wrote.
When someone sends you a meme with a tearful cat, the conversation doesn't actually have anything to do with cats. The text and the context of the conversation seemingly have nothing in common with the cat picture. But when put together, they make up a complete composition and we get its meaning.
Memes also have a strange power of bringing people together. They are a reflection of Netlore (Internet folklore) and reflect many different facets of the human experience. What was once an easy and new way to joke around with friends online is turning into a community-building engine. It's not just about the many faces of Doge and Pepe anymore -- memes now can be way deeper than that.
"We can see not just the new ways people do things or the new ways people express themselves in public but also some of the themes, some of the anxieties or desires people have. All of these complex issues are reflected in things like memes," Director of the Centre for Digital Culture at Kings College London Paolo Gerbaudo told the BBC.
I was walking and found a snail on the sidewalk so I brought it with me to the park and then when I got home I worried it would be lost so I went back and got him and brought him to the area I found him and that was 1987 but I still think of that snail.
Memes can help people feel less alone during hard times (this was especially evident during the pandemic), but they also can help marginalized communities. Sharing memes is a great way to build a collective identity. The founder of the Meme Studies Research Network, Idil Galip, said that this collective sense of identity even bleeds into real life.
My parents have accepted that my cat is an important family member and they let me show them her photos and videos, and they watch it happily. My mum sometimes even asks if my cat ate food or not.
"Niche memes are not meant to go viral," Galip explained. "They're meant usually to create things like in-group belonging, something that kind of strengthens a sense of identity." It's similar to speaking another language. If you ever stumble upon a meme that you don't entirely understand, it might just be that it's not for you.
Young My Idiotic Imagination That Keeps Making Mind Movies And Singing Assorted Ivycomb Songs When I Need To Pay Attention Or Sleep Why Can't I Ditch This Brain And Get A New One
If someone gives me a simple math problem (2+2) I panic and shout 847
Trauma bonding isn’t two people bonding over trauma. It is what abusers do to keep their victim closer to them. The behavioral sciences are very clear about that but people still use it incorrectly.
The knowledge that your PC takes 4 minutes to boot, and it's 20 seconds to the desk is very dangerous when you work from home and have a snooze button.
OMG. Never going to NYC again with someone who thinks Grand Central is just a block from Battery Park. I’ve been suckered twice and that is enough. Didn’t mind the walk, but I rather have spent the time at the Strand.
I am an Aries and had one junior who was Aries. I surely hated her guts. I was talking about her to another colleague who pointed out I was worst before I changed my ways.
gonna send that to my bestie… js kidding i woulda had to kill her she knows too much
Quite literally. Got back on my rollercoaster videos nonsense recently and suddenly I have an incredible urge to get to Six Flags.
We need more of these, fewer AITAH stories (only the really good ones), and zero celebrity/TikTok updates
I often wonder if anyone even reads the text by the b.p. "authors" or if everyone ignores it and just reads the memes. I also often wonder how low one's iq has to be in order to think that their comments are seen by the people whose memes are curated for these "articles"
I never read the author text, should I? And also, in some threads the pics are actually submitted directly by the OPs. Have done that myself AND read the comments.
Load More Replies...So.much better than all the fake AITA stuff..if I wanted to read Reddit, I'd go to Reddit
We need more of these, fewer AITAH stories (only the really good ones), and zero celebrity/TikTok updates
I often wonder if anyone even reads the text by the b.p. "authors" or if everyone ignores it and just reads the memes. I also often wonder how low one's iq has to be in order to think that their comments are seen by the people whose memes are curated for these "articles"
I never read the author text, should I? And also, in some threads the pics are actually submitted directly by the OPs. Have done that myself AND read the comments.
Load More Replies...So.much better than all the fake AITA stuff..if I wanted to read Reddit, I'd go to Reddit
