Current Events > What would the internet be like without memes/meme culture?

(+) Yeah! (+)

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Memes will go down in history books as how millennials expressed their thoughts and feelings.
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Memes are just viral ideas. The Internet would have to be fundamentally different for ideas not to spread.
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Garioshi posted...

Memes are just viral ideas. The Internet would have to be fundamentally different for ideas not to spread.

Is the emergence of meme culture inevitable then?
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prob just treated much more like a library & content delivery system more than a place for recreation

and I guess flame wars would still happen, but they would just be depressing because there'd be no goofy memes to lighten up the mood
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Vita_Aeterna posted...

Garioshi posted...

Memes are just viral ideas. The Internet would have to be fundamentally different for ideas not to spread.

Is the emergence of meme culture inevitable then?

Yeah, it's just kind of a thing built into human nature, any group of people will find one goofy thing to make into a meme. A common one in workplaces that I've seen is if a product or system is used that has a goofy name, like when I worked at a bowling alley there was a whole system by Qubica and anytime it would fuck up, it was the Qubica Gods deciding to make things not work, and you'd have to pray to Qubica if you wanted a smooth day with no fuckups (which practically didn't ever happen)
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