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Welcome to the wholesome side of the internet! This community is for those searching for a way to capture virtue on the internet.

whole·some meme hōl-səm\mēm
A meme that promotes health or well-being of body, mind, and/or soul.

A meme that is pure of heart, devoid of corruption or malice, modest, stable, virtuous, and all-around sweet and compassionate.

A meme that conveys support, positivity, compassion, understanding, love, affection, and genuine friendship by re-contextualizing classic meme formats, and using them to display warmth and empathy.

A meme with no snark or sarcasm that displays genuine human emotion and subverts a generally negative meme to be more positive.

Definition of a meme/memetics A way of describing cultural information being shared.

An element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by non genetic means, especially imitation.

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[–] HornyOnMain@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Librarians are the best ngl

[–] IzyaKatzmann@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

I always wished to work in a library in some capacity, hopefully I get a chance to in the future, volunteering would be nice too. I kinda saw them as the 'purveyors of knowledge' where they have a ton of goods available and all you need to give is some time and attention.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is this "we don't deserve X" a new internet fad? If so, I hate it.

[–] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Somebody/something being "too good for us" or "too good for this world" thing has been around for almost a decade at least. I mean, it used to mainly be said about animals but this isn't exactly a new concept

[–] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 3 points 1 year ago

Try 8+ millennia. In Lake Baikal, Siberia, dogs were buried with respect equal to and sometimes better than a human burial purely due to emotional attachment, in a place where they served no utility for food gathering etc.

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And if that doesn't count, then it's definitely been around since 50-ish CE when Christianity spread the idea of humans being innately terrible and undeserving of basically anything...

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I've seen it said about dogs for years now, but only recently have I seen it said about a variety of different themes.

[–] korbel@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Not sure how old this is, but last time April 12. was on a Friday was in 2019.

[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 year ago

It's not new, but I do hate it.

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