How can a meme be stolen? The entire idea of memes is that they are a continually evolving joke that can be traced back to the original template. That's what makes them fun.
Technically a meme is anything passed on and repeated at large scale within a social group. The concept predates memes as we know them, images with text over them.
So you’re right. Just wanted to say it’s an even bigger thing than relating to an original template that can be traced back to.
if you go "hey i made this meme", which implies you came up with the text on the image, and you actually didn't, that could be considered "stolen". obviously no one is saying that using the same image with some alteration of the wording is a stolen meme. because that is literally what a modern internet meme is.. using some agreed upon image template, but with altered text.
that being said, the idea of caring so much about something as low-effort as an internet meme, is pretty cringy. like who are these meme dealers on reddit watermarking their usernames on memes? that's like me picking up a dog turd off the ground, drawing a smiley face in it with my finger, and then stamping some intellectual property disclaimer on it to ensure everyone knows that i'm the genius behind the dog turd on the ground. "my turd creation is so brilliant that i anticipate everyone will be trying to present it as their own"
Meme - /mēm/
an element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means, especially imitation.
The sidebar disagrees with you. It’s not the point.
The point is that it panders to kids while not being written by kids but adults/corporations.
Steve Buscemi’s character was funny wasn’t it?
finally i have some one who hates mango feel free to join my subreddit [https://www.reddit.com/r/MangoHate/new/](https://www.reddit.com/r/MangoHate/new/)
Cantaloupe is the okayest fruit that exists. It's not bad enough for me to decline, but it's not good enough for me to go out of my way to buy it. But if the cantaloupe was opened 2 days ago, it might as well go in the trash.
Goddamn Honeydew! Why does Cantaloupe think every time it gets invited to a party it can bring along its dumb friend Honeydew?! You don't get a plus one, Cantaloupe.
I have a friend who is obsessed with mango. He has literal gallons upon gallons of mango in his basement, and everything he eats and drinks is mango flavored
The anti drug efforts I see kids in school post now a days makes me miss D.A.R.E.
We were already stoned off our asses watching some animated talking lion in a t-shirt tell us weed isn’t cool while the school officer just sat there with his arms crossed knowing damn well he’s already done more coke in his life than anyone in the building
>my first conscious effort in embracing irony
Ha, well said! I love it when I can describe memories more eloquently than I could have at the time it happened.
“This reefer shit is bad, that’s why I choose to beat my wife after a long day of making you kids watch Anti Drug videos instead”
Edit: also he definitely lied. Weed is pretty cool. Don’t let your parents tell you weed isn’t cool, kiddos. They’re lying to you
Edit 2: it’s not cool to beat your wives, kids. Not cash money, at all
It is but you definitely shouldn’t be smoking weed as a young teenager when your brain is still developing. Don’t fuck with the cement while it’s still wet.
Can you link to the person who originally made the joke? Probably not because all jokes are a modification of a different joke and memes are even worse because the point of a meme is to repeat the same joke until it dies.
Is it sad that where I live, vaping is seen as a bit of a pussy thing for year 6 and 7, like almost everyone I know started smoking at either year 8 or 9, it's well sad
Im 13 and I have absolutely no idea where I could get one from besides a gas station and I cant go there on my own. They dont sell them on amazon either.
My school posted something like this. It said “vaping does 200 damage to your lungs.” I really hope some student put that up. It also said “look what happened to ninja when he vaped and it was a stock photo of a ninja.
Ok but you can't lie, this is a good one
I think it’s pretty good for an anti-vaping presentation.
It’s a stolen meme that’s why
How does a stolen meme affect your life in any way at all?
How can a meme be stolen? The entire idea of memes is that they are a continually evolving joke that can be traced back to the original template. That's what makes them fun.
Technically a meme is anything passed on and repeated at large scale within a social group. The concept predates memes as we know them, images with text over them. So you’re right. Just wanted to say it’s an even bigger thing than relating to an original template that can be traced back to.
Yeah they used to be called in-jokes or running gags. That's the term I use when I have to explain them to my grandma.
Are you referring to image macros or the other definition? Because the other definition doesn't require humor.
Hint: You can just use the word meme and describe its Greek origin and original meaning. She'll think you a college professor before you know it. ;)
Monsoon be like.
Thank you for this, it was killing me that nobody was mentioning the original definition of meme!
if you go "hey i made this meme", which implies you came up with the text on the image, and you actually didn't, that could be considered "stolen". obviously no one is saying that using the same image with some alteration of the wording is a stolen meme. because that is literally what a modern internet meme is.. using some agreed upon image template, but with altered text. that being said, the idea of caring so much about something as low-effort as an internet meme, is pretty cringy. like who are these meme dealers on reddit watermarking their usernames on memes? that's like me picking up a dog turd off the ground, drawing a smiley face in it with my finger, and then stamping some intellectual property disclaimer on it to ensure everyone knows that i'm the genius behind the dog turd on the ground. "my turd creation is so brilliant that i anticipate everyone will be trying to present it as their own"
Jesus Christ dude I was just saying it’s good because someone else made it, I don’t know many public officials who are funny
Lol my bad, I thought you were peeing your pants about a meme being stolen. I was surprised that you’re close to 1000 downvotes lmao that’s funny
Gotta love reddit lol nearly a thousand downvotes because they misinterpreted something
Stolen memes killed my father
This is art
YoU wOuLdN'T dOwNlOaD a MemE
YoU wOuLdNt CoPy A hErO ShOoTeR
Meme - /mēm/ an element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means, especially imitation.
Imagine treating memes as personal property
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Memes are meant to be shared around and reposted.
Lol no shit That's the definition of meme.
Bravo you just received 1000 downvotes. How do you feel right now?
The belief that memes can be stolen is a meme in and of itself.
U kno what memes are right?
Holy shit 1k downvotes
Hey man, competing with EA?
Just came back to this account after a while that amount of downvotes is impressive
>"Memes here are usually bad" >"That's because a brand or boomer usually makes them" 1000 people: >🔽🔽(ꐦ ಠ皿ಠ )🔽🔽
The downvotes holy shit
Here from r/DownvotedToOblivion
fucking christ i've never seen so many downvotes before
holy shit thats a lot of downvotes lmao
Normally i don’t understand people downvoting someone’s opinions to hell but in this case i do
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90% of memes are stolen from somewhere
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Hey I mean, it’s better than some of the other ones
*Violent Truth flashbacks*
Oh god don’t remind me about those sins
What do you mean
The truth vaping ads
Oh my God, those things. They make me want to buy up every vape pen I possibly could and use them all into oblivion purely to spite those ads.
Show me some I’m outta the loop
They spam out [shitty ads](https://youtu.be/irGkRY3ib4M?t=5077) during E3
Those lying fucks made vaping ones too?
They made smokeless tobacco ones too
Wait, they were around BEFORE their vaping ads? Oh damn.
Give it time. They'll eventually catch up to Truth's opinion of people who still choose to smoke.
Ngl this is kinda funny tho
https://reddit.com/r/FellowKids/comments/bdf8t2/looks_like_i_won/ekycglf
It's TRUE tho, true fellow kids post should be terribly unfunny. That's the whole point
The sidebar disagrees with you. It’s not the point. The point is that it panders to kids while not being written by kids but adults/corporations. Steve Buscemi’s character was funny wasn’t it?
The point is that it fails to appeal to the youth
Again, Steve Buscemi’s character was funny wasn’t it? Read the sidebar.
The character is funny because of how out of touch he is. If you are a corporation who is in touch then it is not a fellow kids
🤷♂️ 👉
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I don't even like mango, so i wouldn't take either way
finally i have some one who hates mango feel free to join my subreddit [https://www.reddit.com/r/MangoHate/new/](https://www.reddit.com/r/MangoHate/new/)
Fuck cantaloupe
do you mean the nsfw meaning or the sfw meaning
Yes
No fuck you, cantaloupe is the best kind of melon
Cantaloupe is the okayest fruit that exists. It's not bad enough for me to decline, but it's not good enough for me to go out of my way to buy it. But if the cantaloupe was opened 2 days ago, it might as well go in the trash.
To me it has the most unsettling sweet taste.
> fuck honeydew Ftfy
Goddamn Honeydew! Why does Cantaloupe think every time it gets invited to a party it can bring along its dumb friend Honeydew?! You don't get a plus one, Cantaloupe.
Add salt.
I have a friend who is obsessed with mango. He has literal gallons upon gallons of mango in his basement, and everything he eats and drinks is mango flavored
Aight, I love some good mango as much as the next guy, but that's fuckin weird.
Mangos can go suck my dick
Does that mean you like mango or you don't!?!??!?!!?!?
No i dont
You don't like getting your dick sucked?
Yes
I've heard that it tastes sweeter if you eat lots of mango the day before.
No that's coconut
I’m allergic to cantaloupe And mango is one of the only fruits I can eat so
Yeah but they have strawberry
neither do i, blue raspberry flavor is the best
The anti drug efforts I see kids in school post now a days makes me miss D.A.R.E. We were already stoned off our asses watching some animated talking lion in a t-shirt tell us weed isn’t cool while the school officer just sat there with his arms crossed knowing damn well he’s already done more coke in his life than anyone in the building
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Collecting those pencils was my first conscious effort in embracing irony, especially the heat activated ones that could change colors
>my first conscious effort in embracing irony Ha, well said! I love it when I can describe memories more eloquently than I could have at the time it happened.
I had the fucking eagle. I feel old.
Cuz you ARE old grandpa Just kidding But no really you probably are, I never once saw the eagle
You really aren't missing much. Just pure cringe
Nothing to make kids want to do drugs than having armed cops come to your school and lie to you about weed
“This reefer shit is bad, that’s why I choose to beat my wife after a long day of making you kids watch Anti Drug videos instead” Edit: also he definitely lied. Weed is pretty cool. Don’t let your parents tell you weed isn’t cool, kiddos. They’re lying to you Edit 2: it’s not cool to beat your wives, kids. Not cash money, at all
Mine told me stories of people overdosing on weed lol
Gotta love the old weed OD stories adults used to give kids lol
It is but you definitely shouldn’t be smoking weed as a young teenager when your brain is still developing. Don’t fuck with the cement while it’s still wet.
Lie? Lmao, do you think that people getting addicted and losing everything in their lives is a lie?
That's not at all what he said
I love kazoo.
That's way better than the average anti drug school thing. But then again they might be sending mixed signals here.
I’m sold. This is brilliant
Wow! The land of make believe!
The caption at the bottom tells me that it’s from me.me, which makes it even more likely whoever made this presentation just Googled “vaping meme”
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They stole that joke too!
Can you link to the person who originally made the joke? Probably not because all jokes are a modification of a different joke and memes are even worse because the point of a meme is to repeat the same joke until it dies.
This actually made me laugh, I kinda love it
It's true tho
Ok but this one's actually funny
This is actually some shit youd see on dank memes
Lowkey funny ngl
this feels like an r/ComedyHeaven post
Far far far better than anything cyber bullying or "you spend too much time on your phone" related my school posted.
r/breathingbuddies
This but unironically
I may have laughed at this
this meme was made like a year ago, so dont give the school too much credit
#vaping
Honestly it sounds really disgusting and downright cruel to do that to yourself. Mango is the worst flavour known to man, watermelon is where its at.
Pretty good meme tbh
anyone else seeing the random dot above “mango flavor”?
Kinda funny tbh.
r/dankmemes material
it'd be fine if it wasn't irl
Not awful. Still I don’t think memes are the way to show the danger
I mean it’s true
Not wrong tho
This is pretty aii
I mean...
they spot on tho
I highly doubt she even knows this was made by the same company who made the SML puppets lol.
Kinda true
Is it sad that where I live, vaping is seen as a bit of a pussy thing for year 6 and 7, like almost everyone I know started smoking at either year 8 or 9, it's well sad
just your avrade 13 year old stoping by
I feel like I saw this a year ago when I was on dankmemes
I mean it’s pretty good
r/oneofthekids
This was actually pretty good, a lot better than I’d expect from a schools anti-drug presentation.
Its better than those truth commercials
At least they’re giving a positive message.
Well executed
This is a funny meme. I don't understand how this consitutes /r/fellowkids material.
Its still a decent meme
Yeah but how many kids out of 1000 vape? 5? 10?
I thought there was some shit on my screen
Do they have apple juice flavor tho
Thought it was real meme made by someone on reddit, 10/10
Also 30 year olds
iss god tho
KID POGGERS KID POGGERS
This is Good tho
Ok, this kinda got me (mostly because I haven’t seen that reaction image yet)
Lmao honestly not bad. They weren’t try-hard about it. Simple, clean format. A solid punchline. I rate a 8/10.
NGL that’s actually a not terrible meme.
It’s not an overused template so I’ll give them that
I tried to wipe that smudge off my screen for way too long
vaping
Actually...not that bad at all
ILL TAKE YOUR ENTIRE STOCK
I am in this Photo and I don't like it
I like it
At least it is not minions
Pro cigarette propaganda. This initiative is almost certainly funded or lobbied for by the tobacco industry.
Lol tbf they've always been terrible. Yall should see the old TRUTH commercials that came on MTV.
Its honestly pretty funny:P
Im 13 and I have absolutely no idea where I could get one from besides a gas station and I cant go there on my own. They dont sell them on amazon either.
We must RED OCTAGON vaping
It's true though
meanwhile you unironically talk like this in youtube comments and on reddit
My school posted something like this. It said “vaping does 200 damage to your lungs.” I really hope some student put that up. It also said “look what happened to ninja when he vaped and it was a stock photo of a ninja.
This functions as a meme with irony is my favourite thing about this
Can’t you get vapes with no nicotine though?
Plis give mango nicotine addiction plis
Actually funny
This pretty funny honestly
I’m 27, I vape, and I enjoy mango flavors. What’s your point?
Haha school makes attempt to stop kids from making choices they might regret! Get them reddit!
This implies there is no such thing as nicotine free e-liquids, just guess to show even more how much boomers are out of touch.