• PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    321·
    19 days ago

    Lack of recognition is the only payment I need. No need to thank me.

    On the ultra-rare occasion when I see a meme I actually made and not just reposted getting passed around, it’s such a warm fuzzy feeling. I only wish I could get a notification every time it happens.

    • ummthatguy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      19 days ago

      Right there with ya. Love to create and share, don’t have a watermark, and am absolutely floored to see see any of my work posted by another. I’ve seen it twice thus far and it’s made my day each time.

  • mommykink@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    19 days ago

    It’s a weird feeling seeing something you made exist independently of you. Like a decade ago, I made a .webm “How it feels to chew five gum” edit where I put in the ~4 second clip from the “Honeymooners” segment of V/H/S [1] (2011) where the guy gets his throat stabbed (people who have seen the movie will know what I’m talking about). I haven’t seen it in a while but I know its out there… lurking on some 16 y/o’s download files, just waiting to be posted on whatever forum I happen to be browsing at that point in time.

  • OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world
    6·
    19 days ago

    I used to make reaction images of myself. Last I checked, one had had Arabic captions added and was posted to an Indian message board.

    It wasn’t this one, but this is one of the old gifs I made:

  • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
    4·
    19 days ago

    i have only ever made one meme. it was more than 15 years ago, in a specific thread on the facepunch studios forums. it broke containment and is now one of the featured examples for the thing it is about on knowyourmeme (i just checked this because i wanted to see if it was in the gallery). and of course, i have no way to prove this. it was a hastily made gif i lost like eight computers ago.

  • go $fsck yourself@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    18 days ago

    I don’t make memes, I just find high quality copies of them or remake them if there is none available.

    While I do have a small hope that people choose those to share instead of the typical jpegified version that most OPs usually spread, I am also somewhat pessimistic of that being the case because I often get downvotes and/or people commenting that they can’t tell the difference.

    • Owl@mander.xyz
      2·
      18 days ago

      Memes are like fine wine

      They get more and more compressed as they age but that’s what makes them special

      A meme having lots of compression artifacts means it has been shared over multiple platforms, had a long life, traveled the world.

  • morrowind@lemmy.ml
    1·
    19 days ago

    It would ruin memes the moment that happened. You already see it on like reddit when Karma gets too important. All the main meme subs are filled with such junk. I have never seen anything unfunnier than r/funnymeme

  • JayJLeas@lemmy.world
    1·
    19 days ago

    I remember when one of my cousins shared a meme on Facebook that was made from a poem a wrote. I was very happy, but it was also a bit weird. He didn’t know I wrote it.

  • metaStatic@kbin.earth
    23·
    19 days ago

    the beautiful thing about language memes is that you see them in the wild constantly, I see phrases and structures I participated in shaping all the time in mainstream culture, if only they knew.

    also, image macros are not memes if you think otherwise go touch grass …

    • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
      5·
      19 days ago

      well, if we’re going by the original definition of meme as a concept or idea that spreads and mutates like a social version of a gene through a population (Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, 1976), then unfortunately image macros are indeed a form of meme.

      also, that’s not an image macro. a macro is shorthand; image macros are memetic images, e.g. they have a culturally understood meaning that requires no extra context after learning of it, optionally with attached text that plays off of that cultural understanding. examples of image macros are “foul bachelor frog”, “good guy joegreg”, “hide the pain harold”, “this is fine”, “all the things”, and so on. a comic that sets up a scenario is not shorthand, unless it’s “loss” or “sweet bro and hella jeff”.

      Edit: yes, i’m fun at parties.