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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.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.

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I'm guilty, lol (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/memes@sopuli.xyz

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[–] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago (3 children)

We did, they're called emojis.

Gen z seems to have figured that out, too. They use emojis like punctuations, in much the same way we use lol. I was annoyed by it at first but I got used to.

[–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I'm pretty sure Millennials never caught onto that because we either used emoticons, or were traumatized into thinking that emojis were somehow "girly". So the lol or lmao ended up being the way to show emotion/sentiment.

[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It was because there were all kinds of tacky and terrible looking emoticon packs back then, pretty much everyone agreed you looked like a dork. Nowadays they are used to produce shitposts.

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Everyone who used them back in the day had malware too.

Google dawt cawm… Fun smily face pack 4 chat on yahoo and aim Download Ooh, desktop strippers? Sweet! I’ll go ahead and get that too. Oh no way, a purple ape assistant! Sweet, lemme git that. I’ll be ur buddy bonzi.

Remember porn dialers? They’d call 1-900 numbers in the background when your computer was idle and make parents really angry.

At least I think that’s what they did.

[–] evranch@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago

I use emojis when talking to specific people, lol with others and some I don't use any text slang at all.

Strangely because I grew up with lots of phpBB forums, the few of them that I still engage with for things like classic cars and farm talk I always use the emojis because that's what we always did :mrgreen:

[–] So_zetta_slowpoke@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

I mean, I use them all the time 🤷‍♂️

[–] JoYo@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

which emoji is lol?

[–] poppy@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

😛or 😁 depending on context

[–] JoYo@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

those don’t look very loud

[–] SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

😂

Edit: also here's ROFL for good measure 🤣

[–] aulin@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

What? Are we out of sync? As a millennial I use a lot of emoji, and gen z'ers almost don't use any, and tell me it's cringe to use them.