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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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[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 74 points 1 week ago (7 children)

He is 13 and his wiki page has an early life section. ☠️

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Gronk

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 week ago

to be fair, it doesn't have many sections at all, so this checks out 😄

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Madden San Miguel
June 4, 2012 (age 12) Frisco, Texas, U.S.

Theres a lot to unpack from lil Gronks info there.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

12yo and already have a "controversies" section on the wiki page.

I mean, good? Make mistakes. Be a kid. It's just kinda fucked it's all being documented for posterity

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

an American youth football player

So, a 13-year-old with brain damage.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 74 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I am 40 and I know who The Rizzler is.

It's me. Because I've got a bussin' gyatt. Don't think so? That would be Ohio, fr fr. ONG I got that skibidi rizz.

[–] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is this what having a stroke feels like?

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[–] CubeOfCheese@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Buddy here's goated with the sauce lk

[–] msage@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago

on god, fr fr

Agh i am having to fight my instincts to downvote and I'm not even a prescriptivist dammit. When did I get so old.

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[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 50 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh man...remember when satire news publications had articles of bat boy on the front page because politics weren't as absurd yet?

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I miss those magazines. I love absurdity, and I'd beg my mom to buy them for me. She wouldn't and said they were trash, and not real.

I know. Thats why I want them. I don't want real news. I never asked her to buy a newspaper. I want to read how Bigfoot was caught bathing in a bird bath in northern Canada. Yes, I was 7, and knew the difference between this and reality. But I love absurd fake shit.

I spent the 90s watching pro wrestling where an undead wizard faught his own long lost brother, who was thought to be dead decades ago after the undead wizard burned his whole family alive inside the family owned funeral home. Turns out his brother was kept locked in a basement to hide his scars, and now wears a mask to hide his disfigured face. And somehow, because he was burned alive as a child, he now is able to summon fire, which is just as plausible as his brother being able to summon lightning.

I know most of you don't watch pro wrestling. I get that it's not for everyone. BUT! After reading that summery of an actual decades long storyline, if you EVER ask a fan of pro wrestling if they know it's "fake", you're even dumber than you think we are.

Point is, I love these magazines, but at some point they gave up. They couldn't be more absurd than real life.

Absurdity is dead.

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[–] indigoviolet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I’m under 20. I feel the same way.

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 12 points 1 week ago

I'm 29 and same. I mean even if you understand what they mean they often sound ridiculous.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

We have reached the singularity. Congratulations.

[–] ThatGuyNamedZeus@feddit.org 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Rizzle me this, rizzle me that, who's afraid of the big, Gronk bat?

[–] ThatGuyNamedZeus@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago
[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

50s dude could uno-reverse card that shit by breaking out the slang from his own teen years. Get all the gens conversing this way in one thread just for pure chaos-sake.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

We definitely had ridiculous slang in the 80s and 90s, but the truth is I always felt like the media over-played it trying to sound cool. And when we'd over-play it amongst ourselves it was as a way to laugh at adults.

Can you jam with the console cowboys in cyberspace? Cowabunga. Some of my favorite stuff had excessive references to skateboarding, roller blading, or other Xtreme sports (Hackers, anyone?) and that's coming from a guy who used to be a part of that scene.

Maybe I'm wrong. If I am that wouldn't be fetch.

Edit: my drunk ass doesn't know the difference between all of the 80s and 89.

[–] baronvonj@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We definitely had ridiculous slang in the 80s and 90s,

Dude, it was radically tubular.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It was phat. Raise the roof. You're bodacious.

Otherwise, gag me with a spoon because I'm grody.

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[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Stop trying to make fetch happen. It's not going to happen!

[–] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean, cyberspace is at least a genuine term made by Gibson. The rest...

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

But you're not jamming with the console cowboys there, as much as I wish that happened. I guess I should have hacked the Gibson harder.

On an entirely related note, theoretically there will be a Neuromancer TV show next year.

[–] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Huh really? That's exciting! I hope they don't mess it up. It seems long overdue with all these book/video game adaptations that have been coming out.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

It's apple plus. I have no idea how any of their stuff is because it's the only service I haven't tried. But I've heard good things about their sci fi offerings.

[–] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Oh, that is somewhat promising. They've done great with Severance, which I've seen, and apparently also Silo (which I haven't).

[–] watson387@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

Silo is great. One of my favorite current series.

[–] arotrios@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At first I was like:

...then I saw this:

And began to realize that things were about to get bad...

I didn't realize the drama, the pathos:

The good times:

...and the bad:

After much contemplation, I realized there was only one meme I could post in defense:

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm a simple man.

I see GROND

I upvote/compliment.

GROND

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

I'm glad k-smog and batboy made up and are flipping grunts together again.

[–] Coolbeanschilly@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

Looks like Jabba the Hutt's translater broke down again.

[–] nesc@lemmy.cafe 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, baby gronk actually exists.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

We don't even know who adult Gronk is.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Im sharing this only because i learned it and im forcing you to know too.

Robert James Gronkowski (born May 14, 1989) is an American former professional football tight end who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 11 seasons. Nicknamed "Gronk", Gronkowski played nine seasons for the New England Patriots, then played his final two seasons for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And where does he fall in the Gronk lineage?

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Someone linked to his... ugh... his Wikipedia page (yeah). And it has that info. Feel free to look. I'm not doing it again haha

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Fair enough lol

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[–] cepelinas@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 week ago

Don't worry we can't understand this while we are still in school.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 5 points 1 week ago

At least “curtains for” would mean something to him though.

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