Lack of recognition is the only payment I need. No need to thank me.
On the ultra-rare occasion when I see a meme I actually made and not just reposted getting passed around, it's such a warm fuzzy feeling. I only wish I could get a notification every time it happens.
Right there with ya. Love to create and share, don't have a watermark, and am absolutely floored to see see any of my work posted by another. I've seen it twice thus far and it's made my day each time.
That's why you learn steganography and embed a cryptographic signature into your memes
Sounds an awful lot like work.
Until lossy compression compresses it out because it's not visible to the human eye
It's a weird feeling seeing something you made exist independently of you. Like a decade ago, I made a .webm "How it feels to chew five gum" edit where I put in the ~4 second clip from the "Honeymooners" segment of V/H/S [1] (2011) where the guy gets his throat stabbed (people who have seen the movie will know what I'm talking about). I haven't seen it in a while but I know its out there... lurking on some 16 y/o's download files, just waiting to be posted on whatever forum I happen to be browsing at that point in time.
I don't make memes, I just find high quality copies of them or remake them if there is none available.
While I do have a small hope that people choose those to share instead of the typical jpegified version that most OPs usually spread, I am also somewhat pessimistic of that being the case because I often get downvotes and/or people commenting that they can't tell the difference.
Memes are like fine wine
They get more and more compressed as they age but that's what makes them special
A meme having lots of compression artifacts means it has been shared over multiple platforms, had a long life, traveled the world.
I cannot disagree more.
They only get that way because people are unaware and careless, or even worse it could be that someone was trying to remove the author's credit.
The more quality that is lost means the more detached it is from the creator and literally the more difficult it is to read. Many memes stem from an artist's work, like a comic or photograph, the rest are a majority text.
Sure, for some memes, it really doesn't matter and just adds to the character. Those are generally shitposts anyway. But for the ones based around people's art it shows a lack of respect to the artist because their name has been stripped off and shitty watermarks slathered over it. Then for the other side, it shows disrespect to the people you share it with because you are not showing care for their ability to see the artwork or even know where that art came from. While the text portions are more and more difficult to read, which just sucks in general, and can sometimes mean you are left out entirely for people with visual disabilities.
I understand your desire to try to characterize it as 'age' or some sort of growth of character, but that ultimately dismisses the carelessness involved which does have a negative impact for both the creators and the viewers.
i have only ever made one meme. it was more than 15 years ago, in a specific thread on the facepunch studios forums. it broke containment and is now one of the featured examples for the thing it is about on knowyourmeme (i just checked this because i wanted to see if it was in the gallery). and of course, i have no way to prove this. it was a hastily made gif i lost like eight computers ago.
Yes they do. The platforms like Facebook twitter and TikTok get all the money from it.
It would ruin memes the moment that happened. You already see it on like reddit when Karma gets too important. All the main meme subs are filled with such junk. I have never seen anything unfunnier than r/funnymeme
I feel good when I see my memes. Once I clipped a bit of a YouTube video of moles and uploaded it to tenor.com as a GIF several years ago for a 1off joke in a Discord chat
I got an email a month ago saying it got 600,000 uses. It's like the 20th result for "mole" in the discord GIF search
Already exists, do sponsored posts/ads and if you get good enough then you can run a fast food account
I remember when one of my cousins shared a meme on Facebook that was made from a poem a wrote. I was very happy, but it was also a bit weird. He didn't know I wrote it.
I've been trying with many memes but this one post made me settle on pushing this.
the beautiful thing about language memes is that you see them in the wild constantly, I see phrases and structures I participated in shaping all the time in mainstream culture, if only they knew.
also, image macros are not memes if you think otherwise go touch grass ...
well, if we're going by the original definition of meme as a concept or idea that spreads and mutates like a social version of a gene through a population (Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, 1976), then unfortunately image macros are indeed a form of meme.
also, that's not an image macro. a macro is shorthand; image macros are memetic images, e.g. they have a culturally understood meaning that requires no extra context after learning of it, optionally with attached text that plays off of that cultural understanding. examples of image macros are "foul bachelor frog", "good guy
joegreg", "hide the pain harold", "this is fine", "all the things", and so on. a comic that sets up a scenario is not shorthand, unless it's "loss" or "sweet bro and hella jeff".Edit: yes, i'm fun at parties.
Since when are image macros not memes
Millhouse is not a meme is a meme
