• whyNotSquirrelEnglish
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    I don’t plan to have a kid, so could someone explain it to me?

    edit: when it’s a parent,.

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      Glad you got there. And look it took you significant less time than the guy in the meme

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        Wait, is any image now a meme? This isn’t a comic strip, in Comic Strips?

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          Always has been. A meme is a self replicating unit of information. The meme exclusionists are just engaged in historical revisionism.

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          By most definitions, comic strips inherently qualify as memes so yeah, this is both.

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            But then like, isn’t everything a meme? then nothing is a meme woaaahhh

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              Not really, no.

              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

              The comic strip format could be characterized as a memetic style of communication that has spread by imitation from person to person.

              Such is not true of ferns, for example.

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                The idea of ferns, as a decorative plant, is most definitely a meme.

                However you are right that ferns, as a lifeform, fall under the category of genes.

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          Originally, no, this wouldn’t have qualified as a meme, but now it pretty much just means “any image that’s shared online for the purpose of entertainment”.

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          The definition is very vague now. And it definitely applies to any humorous images being spread using social media. And comics fall into that category.

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    I thought it became a dad joke when it was full groan

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      Oh my god thats so bad! but also so good!

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      This is absolutely the best dad joke I have seen so far

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    I love that his face shows he’s thinking hard about it till he gets it

    Edit why blue tie for wedding?