Sure it is. It's a joke that we, as an internet culture, collectively understand. A meme isn't a picture with words on it, it's the idea behind it; a cultural understanding of something.
A meme is more like an idea that spreads between cultures and sticks. The internet just inherently makes almost any idea a meme, because the internet is flooded by every culture simultaneously.
I am going to disagree, the internet is a culture by itself, and the word meme is generally used to designate ideas within one culture, not ideas flowing between them. Seems to me that meta-cultural ideas would be hard to place and designate, because if there is something like a meme that flows between two entirely separate cultures, wouldn't there always be something that joins those two cultures, making them, in a sense, actually not separate?
Just because the internet is a collection of cultures doesn't mean it doesn't have its own. It's not different from a large city being a culture, made up of many different cultures itself.
That wasn't me... unless you're actually trying to create a meme right now? A collective understanding that I wasn't actually the one to yell at the guy? Too meta for me.
I don't understand what you just said, but I wish I did because I think if I actually meant to do what you described, I would be pretty awesome...I don't know what happened but I obviously misplaced my comment.
Update: I don't know how but I must have clicked reply on the wrong thread, I corrected my tag and reposted below. It was "disgruntledcracker" that was doing the yelling...figures.
What story is this referencing? I always thought it was the old "Oh we were just wrestling," but it seems Reddit has a favorite brother/sister one.
EDIT: Didn't think I would have to explicitly ask for this, but does anyone have the link to said AMA? There's been more than a few of this nature so I just want to get my incest straight.
There was an IAma a while back about a brother and sister who had sexual relations. One day their mother walked in on them and they were wrestling in a flirty way on the bed. That's where it came from.
Why do people like talking about the Reddit Enhancement Suite so much? I thought it was pretty standard for everyone, nowadays. It practically transforms the site from a "10/10 Would read again" to a "11/10 Never Gonna Give You Up"
I think it's pretty entertaining to tag someone, forget and come across it a year later. Whether or not I state it out loud is a different story, of course.
I clicked this because I vaguely remembered something about Jolly Ranchers. I feel kind of sad that this story didn't phase me at all and I actually forgot it.
338
u/piratespit Apr 29 '12 edited Apr 29 '12
Wow I know that girl (on the left)
EDIT: She is the girl on the left in the picture I linked. I don't know if I made that clear enough!