I know r/circlebroke is here to complain and release some steam about the state of Reddit, but I think it important to concentrate on the positive aspects every once in awhile.
igotanewwatch shows us the light, points out that not everything needs to be turned into a meme.
The great thing is that he (currently) has double the upvotes of the poster requesting a new meme.
Posted May 1, 2012, 2:40 AM UTC
Heh and then all the people making the same jokes in the comments 'I don't understand' or 'we should make this into a meme!'. Hahaha.
Didn't 'meme' start out as a concept? A concept that could be applied to basically any idea or thing that spread? And now it's not a concept anymore, it's become a concrete thing, it's 'a picture with a sentence at the top and the bottom' or 'a joke that gets made on Reddit a lot'. Bah. Amusing that simply the concept itself is something that Reddit has bastardized and beaten down into an easily digestible form, since what the concept now is is bastardizing a joke and beating it down into an easily digestible form.
Pretension!
I figure that, many of the posts we see here, in the comments, they usually back us up in calling out submissions being too circlejerky.
Nope. Nothing is bad. And sometimes I think we should highlight the people who go say no to rage comics and memes.
Funny you say that. Here's a neat link.
Not surprised that just about everyone that disagrees with him has an account less than a month old.
Yeah, it makes sense. I remember when I first really discovered Reddit, though I never really liked rage comics, I thought the Advice Animals were pretty funny. By nature, though, they're incredibly repetitive, so I think after a few months a good amount of people get sick of them.
Does anyone even remember the first Advice Animal ever? That fucking dog (bad advice dog or something)? Him, Depression Dog and Courage Wolf came right around on 4chan, New Year's Eve, 2008, shortly before the Boxxy Wars. No one liked them, and the people who said they liked them were trolls. There's a reason 4chan doesn't make advice animal memes anymore.
>tfw that exact picture was on /mu/ a few hours ago.
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Yeah apparently people can just make up memes now? Just because you put text above and below a picture does not make it a meme. Godammit I think Imgur should be removed from this site
Godammit I think Imgur should be removed from this site
Unfortunately, Imgur is one of the best ways to share images. It's just a straight forward image hosting site, nothing fancy. Photobucket is terrible. I'll actually avoid photobucket links if I'm browsing mobile. min.us is slow as sin for some reason.
Yeah apparently people can just make up memes now?
Pretty much. A lot of memes feel forced which usually makes them irritating and unappealing. Nothing seems to occur naturally anymore.
If only there were some way to just shave off the cruft.
In response to you saying Imgur is the best way to share images. Yes, I understand that, but I think the integrity of this site would be enhanced if only links to articles were permitted.
Oh, without a doubt. Link karma no longer reflects the most useful contributions, nor does comment Karma.
I've made two comments that come to mind, both were stupid jokes, both received about 500 upvotes. :/
Apparently a quick giggle is more important than an insightful response
I love this response, too:
I have no idea how intentional this was, but this an absolutely spot-on analogy. When it comes to memes, the reddit hivemind is a child who lacks the forethought and self-discipline to realize that, while eating one or two cookies before dinner is okay, eating the whole jar will give him a tummy-ache and spoil his appetite.