This one is also nice and true until today
Same with Musk's "revolutionary" Hyperloop, nothing new with the same people
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truly amazing meme
thanks!
Pocket phone prediction is more spot on than the cartoonist themselves realized, Amish men got shunned because of the emergency alert test going off
Their hyper loop drawing is missing the Costco tube communication sound, a nice "thoonk!" Noise.
The thing he didn't foresee was the ability to turn the phone on silent mode.
We can put it on silent,, but that doesn't mean everybody does when they should!
The atmospheric railway! Patent US 21,652, system for turning rats into viscera.
That's not a political cartoon.
I think that OP's sentiment is more against gatekeeping what a meme is. Like if this is a meme, than political cartoons are too
Defining words properly isn't gatekeeping, it's categorization.
Well, defining words narrowly is pretty much the definition of gatekeeping. I hope you're not gatekeeping what gatekeeping means?
You aren't a real gatekeeper if you haven't gatekept gatekeeping before
Ah yes, no true gatekeeper.
Defining things properly isn't gatekeeping. You said narrow. I didn't.
But who decides what the proper definition is? Your proper definition is for me a narrow if it doesn't take into account the common usage. The definition of meme is widening. Cope with it.
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I love the origin of it.
https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/the-origin-of-the-word-meme/
Not only is it a great origin, that's a fantastic article on it
Thank you so much for sharing
Literally all the things here including comments are memes.
Correct
So basically what I'm saying is that there's a lot of people gatekeeping what a meme is without understanding what a meme is
Or if they're referring to the first of the definitions in the screenshot I shared, not understanding that different people can find things humorous
The biggest meme of all is our spoken languages
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People no longer understand what meme means. Memes are old as time. Stories, jokes, funny images. Pretty much every form of information can be a meme.
So, yes, this is a slightly older meme.
Eh, what "meme" actually means and what it currently means in popular culture are two different things. People never understood what it really means, but the most commonly used meaning of it is constantly changing.
The word itself was coined by Richard Dawkins in 1976. But it wasn't a commonly used term until around 2005, even then it was used exclusively for specific things and few people knew its actual meaning. But memes in their literal sense have almost always been a thing, and they're common among many species.
Your post is an "uh, actually" version of what I said. You are not disagreeing with me but still somehow making it sound like you do.
I meant the term meme never applied to only sharing "image macros" but to inside jokes, coming shared references, common cultural knowledge. It is an absolutely fascinating term and concept if used like that, and I wish more people would understand it and use it in the same way.
What species aside from Homo Sapiens use memes?
In Dawkins' sense of the word, memes are 'units of cultural inheritance'. So melodic movements in bird song, that birds teach each other, could be considered memes. Any other place you might find cultural inheritance, you could describe it in terms of memes. Memes were simply meant to be a cultural analogy to genes.
The chad vs. virgin meme was originally the reverse. Virgin did things the way you would expect them to be done, and Chad did things in a reckless or incorrect way.
There's a much longer use case now for "chad good" and that must make the originally intended users seethe. 
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Were photos really called flashlights in 1920?
Yes. Or rather, it was flashlight photography, as opposed to "old fashioned" photography where you had to hold perfectly still for several seconds. Of course, flash powder existed before, but it was messy, dangerous, flammable and left a layer of white ash everywhere. Most people today would only recognise the pan full of magnesium flash powder from cartoons, but you can probably guess it wasn't popular at parties or with hobbyists.
In the 1920s, flash bulbs were the awesome new thing, meaning you could take split second photos, and those could be action shots, and not staged and posed portraits. Taking a flashlight was doable quickly and easily, and of course as we all know, most random photos by random people aren't great.
The name photograph was already used for the old thing, so "flashlight" became the obvious abbreviation.
TIL?
Memes are truly as old as the human race.
Hell one could argue that memes are as old as social constructs
So they could in all likelihood predate moden humans
Language is an in-joke that got wildly out of hand.
Are animal paintings in caves memes too?
Literally yes
Meme has come to mean cartoon. Your usage is no different.
Meme doesn't NOT originally mean cartoon, it just means a viral idea.
Richard Dawkins, is it you?
Garfield is a meme.
The gods are memes. Ideas that have reproduced and evolved to secure their own existence, so much so that they can accurately be said to have their own agency, as forces directing the will of society. This proves the existence of gods.
I'd argue that the "modern meme" of photo with caption are just a modification of demotivational posters
Meme actually means something and isn't just "funny image." We no longer have a word for what a meme actually is. I didn't care about the meaning of ironic changing because there's still words for that but this is different.
Meme from the American Civil War
oh ya I forgot about this one, total classic political cartoon meme too
Going to be hard to beat fire and pointy sticks for old memes.
Always dipping on the chinless...
Define meme, does the Sator Square count?
So, uh, yes.
Yes (IMO) it does count.
It was passed down for centuries in a non-gene based way among people
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