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Just curious... When did regular comics become memes?
40 0 ReplyAround the time meme came to mean any joke in an image file format
77 0 ReplyGary Larson was my favorite memer. Ever seen The Far Side memes?
38 0 ReplySee? Doesn't sound right at all.
13 0 ReplyOh come on, who doesn't remember reading the meme strips in the Sunday morning paper?
When I got older I started enjoying meme books like Spider-Man, too.
21 0 ReplyThis is some Idiocracy shit, I feel like this'll be the vernacular in the next 20-30 years. Hopefully an asteroid wipes us out first.
7 0 ReplyPaper? You mean hard copy website?
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It doesn't, and it's annoying that pretty much any image displayed online is called a "meme" nowadays.
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Always has been by both the official definition of the word and the more modern internet use of it
11 0 ReplyThat's not really true though.
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Now that I think about it, maybe they always have been, sort of? The earliest memes I remember are the rage comics
Though, I feel like "meme" = funny relatable thing nowadays.
9 0 ReplyAbout the time Saruman abandoned reason for madness.
6 0 ReplyWe must join the memes, Gandalf. It would be wise, my friend.
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