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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I have never seen the meme.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Really? Man I love that meme, reminds me of my wife; she did the same for our kids.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Me neither so I looked into it....they're really calling anything a meme now, huh? It didn't become a joke template or anything, a couple of people drew/painted versions of it. The OP is still active on reddit. And just posted a GoFundMe to recreate the photo..

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

You’re confusing memes and image macros

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

memes are basically anything spread around. doesn't need to be a joke or even funny really.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Do you know what a meme actually is? This definitely qualifies.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

A one-off reddit thread

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A meme is any idea that spreads and reproduces itself through a population. It has nothing to do with jokes or templates, except that the internet has caused image templates to be propagated and used in the symbolic communication of ideas.

Some image templates are examples of memes. They are not the defining trait of memes, or even the dominant form of them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Lots of things that happened before you were born, kiddo

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago

Good chance I'm older than you, crypokiddo

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It had a little bit of popularity back when it was first posted. I definitely remember several meme posts with it. I think it lost popularity because the guy helping his brother with the computer meme took over the same category of memes.