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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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[–] Nobody@lemmy.world 73 points 2 years ago (1 children)

While they're at it, they need to nerf the Sociopath trait. The handful of greedy murderhobos are breaking the climate and the economy for everyone.

[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

murderhobos

Well that's accurate. I'm going to start using that term now.

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 48 points 2 years ago (2 children)

2015? I demand a reset to 2000!

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I agree. 2001 is when the shit hit the fan.

[–] EvolvedTurtle@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

cries in not being born yet

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Cries in being so old your realise people who were born after 9/11 are grown ass adults now.

[–] Sombyr@lemmy.one 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Don't even have to be that old to experience that. There's this weird phenomenon where if you're born at the tail end of the 90s, anyone born 2000 onward feels infinitely younger, even if the actual age difference is only a few years.
I was born 1998 and I still look at anybody born in 2000 like "you've gotta be 12 years old max."

[–] gkd@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Same thing here. Seeing people who were born in like 2006 as adults always trips me up for a second.

[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 12 points 2 years ago

Think of all the bullshit you won't have to put up with after a full reset though.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Imagine a world where the Supreme Court allowed Florida to keep counting ballots and we found out Al Gore actually won the election.

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[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 40 points 2 years ago (6 children)

people say the date is dependent on the person but 2015 is basically before trump and qanon and such. So I don't think OP is saying 2015 is the best year just that after 2015 was just craziness.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago (3 children)

If we reset to 1960, we could avoid the whole end of the climate apocalypse thing.

I mean we wouldn't, but we could.

[–] Sebbe@lemmy.sebbem.se 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Everything we do still counts. The faster we reduce carbon emissions, the less catastrophic the climate will get for our civilization.

And the emissions are still increasing.

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[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

yeah thats the problem. There would be time but it would be the same folks trying to do something and the same folks fighting it and the same either ignoring or being ignorant of it.

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[–] JehovahJoe@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Going back to 1960 would help us prevent Republicans from adopting the southern strategy and basically creating all modern problems

[–] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 8 points 2 years ago

Maybe make Kissinger have a miss step in some stairs too.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

Just don't elect, Nixon future saved

[–] freebread@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

My longtime girlfriend left me the first week of 2016. It led to a lot of personal growth that would've never happened otherwise but I cannot downplay just how shocking it was for our mutual friend group. Memories of back then seem unrecognizable now.

David Bowie died the second week of 2016 and things kept going downhill from there.

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[–] spudwart@spudwart.com 39 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

"We just kinda figured maybe you'd make something neat under pressure, but it appears you made TikTok and a global pandemic instead." The spokesman went on to suggest that maybe they should go back an extra year, just for good measure. "We want to give everyone a chance to reconsider their actions. Although I was personally in favor of an extra year, the council has decided that 2015 is an acceptable starting point." The spokesman then left the podium to the Chronometric Operations, Observation and Managment representative.

[–] ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 years ago

What SCP is this?

[–] gkd@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Better plot than most movies these days.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Reptiles are slow to get around to doing things

[–] NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

I have a sun lamp they can borrow

[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 28 points 2 years ago

If they did this, I wouldn't even be mad about there being shadow overlords.

[–] li10@feddit.uk 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I think 2012 would be best for the UK.

It’s all been aggressively down hill since the olympics.

[–] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I like the theory that the Mayans were absolutely correct: the world does end on 21 December 2012.

But "the world ending" doesn't just happen all at once like flipping the switch of existence.

No, it ends by falling apart, disintegrating, devolving into chaos. Slowly at first, but compounding in speed and severity. Still, fast by "end of the world" standards may very well be "almost imperceptibly slow at first" to the human frame of reference.

In short: the world started to end right when the Mayans said it would. We're just starting to realize it now.

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[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 5 points 2 years ago

It absolutely hurts me that that was 2012

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[–] Chariotwheel@kbin.social 13 points 2 years ago

You can really see at the chosen year where the person making the meme comes from. Plenty of countries that would have plenty to say about the year.

[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If our mental state is reset as well, we would end up in a loop since we would continue reaching the same point we reset at.

[–] Glowstick@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The comic is saying that the overlords purposely threw in some very wacky conditions in 2015 just to see how we'd respond, so the idea we're saying is that we'd like to go back to X year and go forward but without the wacky settings in the simulator.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

We better be getting some bonus credits or something.

[–] casmael@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

Oh maaaaan I’ve missed this meme every day I’ve not looked at it. Truly a modern classic of the genre x x

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago

everyones giving their preference. I would take the 70's just after the mandatory draft was out. Was basically when we had a chance to deal with global warming and you would not believe the dilapadated mansions some poor people lived in. Where they old and worn. yes. were they effin huge with a decent amount of property not far from cities. yes. also families were being supported on one income. oh and pensions were a thing.

[–] MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Interesting times to see "The Illuminati" make a comeback.

Icke maintains that he is not an anti-Semite, and that he is criticizing not real Jews, but 12-foot-tall alien lizard people, many of whom just happen to be posing as Jews.

[–] CJOtheReal@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 years ago

Nah thanks 2015 was horrible for me.

[–] Lophostemon@aussie.zone 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Could we please reset it to about 1991?

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Sure, but let's make it late 1991 so that we can all play SNES.

[–] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

The answer is obviouse, try to invest in bitcoin

[–] RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

01-01-1997, and please make sure everyone remembers what happens till 2023

[–] Bizarroland@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Just for some real tom fuckery it will be reset to unix time 0, aka 01-01-1970

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[–] butter@midwest.social 6 points 2 years ago

People are stupid. If everyone remembered what happened, we would just have cryptocurrency and NFTs earlier. Nothing would actually be different

[–] ErKaf@feddit.de 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Please dont. That would make me unborn.

[–] ErKaf@feddit.de 8 points 2 years ago

Wait.. On second thought. .. Yes please.

[–] NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Pesky lizard man

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