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@MacedWindow@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.world • 1 year ago

Can you read the ancient glyphs

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Can you read the ancient glyphs

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@MacedWindow@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.world • 1 year ago
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  • @edgemaster72@lemmy.world
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    93•1 year ago

    I guess that would make knowyourmeme the modern Rosetta Stone

    • @mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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      36•1 year ago

      perhaps, but it will be indecipherable due to the 42gb of advertisements and pop-ups it loads.

      • 100_kg_90_de_belin
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        28•1 year ago

        ublock origin is going to be seen as a hero-like figure

        • @Soggy@lemmy.world
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          23•1 year ago

          It’s not already?

          • @NoFun4You@lemmy.world
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            10•1 year ago

            All hail

        • @jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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          -5•1 year ago

          Or the death of the Internet when 100% of people use ad blockers.

          • Voytrekk
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            6•11 months ago

            Or maybe websites can go back to simple ads that just have a picture with a link. Modern advertising is about harvesting your data, which is why I use an ad blocker. They also use a ton of resources that slow down websites.

            • @jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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              1•11 months ago

              We can’t close pandora’s box. Google ads are extremely profitable, nothing else comes close. I work for a company that uses ads as the main revenue source. We tried to avoid Google but it just makes no business sense. We’re talking 10 times the revenue compared to other major players. Google not only pays better, but the ads are just better.

              I’m very pessimistic. I’m pretty sure we’re heading in the direction where most websites will be DRM’d and impossible to block ads.

      • @TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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        16•1 year ago

        Knowyourmeme has ads?

    • @ameancow@lemmy.world
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      6•1 year ago

      If I become rich I will download the entirety of knowyourmeme and engrave it on a giant block of granite or carve it into the side of a mountain. Our descendants will thank me.

  • tiredofsametab
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    89•1 year ago

    I have no idea who the person is or what the context of the photo was, but just the cat + box part tells me all I need to know.

    • @MacedWindow@lemmy.worldOP
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      56•1 year ago

      Enjoy!

      • @brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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        36•1 year ago

        YouTube tracker removed

        “I am not a bot, and this action was performed manually”

        • @MacedWindow@lemmy.worldOP
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          15•1 year ago

          Thanks I try to remember but this one slipped by

          • @brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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            11•1 year ago

            We’re all better together

        • Rozaŭtuno
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          6•1 year ago

          Good human.

        • Jojo, Lady of the West
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          4•1 year ago

          “I am not a bot, and this action was performed manually”

          Why is that in quotes? Are you actually a bot?

          • @brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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            1•1 year ago

            Hahaha I stole it from a Lemming more clever than I

      • Hucklebee
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        Ha, I only knew the whispered line, never saw the conplete sketch. Brilliant.

    • Sippy Cup
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      16•1 year ago

      Holy shit yeah having context makes it way different

  • Clay_pidgin
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    78•1 year ago

    It’s free real estate.

    • @listless
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      20•1 year ago

      (this message intended for jim bowie only)

      • @AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com
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        deleted by creator

      • @ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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        7•1 year ago

        Jim does it get better than this??

    • @killea@lemmy.world
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      15•1 year ago

      THE HOUSE IS FREE!!

      • @listless
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        11•1 year ago

        you gotta buy the furniture but the house is free

        • Sippy Cup
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          9•1 year ago

          It’s a free house there’s a pool in the back

    • @half_built_pyramids@lemmy.world
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      10•1 year ago

      It’s loss.

  • @Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
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    50•1 year ago

    Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra

    • @Retrograde@lemmy.world
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      28•1 year ago

      His memes spreading wide

      • @listless
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        10•1 year ago

        Shaka, when the walls fell

        • @WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
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          9•1 year ago

          Shakira, who’s hips spoke truth.

          • @Maalus@lemmy.world
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            11•1 year ago

            Shakira, her hips truthful*

            • @listless
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              6•1 year ago

              Kelis, her frozen dairy drink desirable.

  • Ech
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    41•1 year ago

    There’s gonna be that one academic weirdo in 1000 years who’s focus is “Memes and Internet History of the 21st Century”.

    • @littlewonder@lemmy.world
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      I’d bet money there are already thesises(??) theses (thanks, atomicorange!) and dissertations on this.

      • @tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
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        There’s def already stuff like interpreting use of emojis. For example sometimes you have text messages show up in a court case and there are people who can officially “interpret” what the emojis mean for the court.

        • @cmbabul@lemmy.world
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          7•1 year ago

          At least some portion of that have to be grifters

          • @Soggy@lemmy.world
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            9•1 year ago

            An accurate statement to append to literally all human effort.

            • @SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net
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              1•1 year ago

              There’s literally a saying to pretend until you succeed

      • @atomicorange@lemmy.world
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        10•1 year ago

        Theses is the plural of thesis. Kinda looks stupid out of context but there you go.

        • @lemonmelon@lemmy.world
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          6•1 year ago

          And the Ship of Theses is when you rewrite the seven parts of your dissertation so many times that you’re not sure if it’s even your original intent anymore

      • @snowsuit2654@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        6•1 year ago

        A friend of mine wrote a dissertation on surreal memes a few years ago.

      • Ech
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        Oh, I’m sure there are plenty at the moment. It will just fade over time until it enters the same realm as something like “Clay Pots of Ancient Sites Found in The London Underground”.

    • 100_kg_90_de_belin
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      11•1 year ago

      Once I used a video meme to explain source studies and intertextuality to my students

    • @Etterra@lemmy.world
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      10•1 year ago

      With the proliferation of memes, that’s probably going to be its own branch of academic study.

      • @JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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        So one of my great-great-great grandkids might be able to get a PhD in Memeology?

        • @mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml
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          You can get that right now.

          Memes didn’t start because of the internet. They’ve been around for a long time.

  • @Etterra@lemmy.world
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    31•1 year ago

    As long as there are boxes and cats, everyone will know what this means for all time.

  • volvoxvsmarla
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    I remember the first time I was shown a meme by a friend. She showed me a rage comic on 9 gag and I absolutely didn’t get it obviously and she was desperate to explain and just said “yeah it’s not that funny but when you see them often you kinda start getting what they mean” and I thought that’s a stupid ass concept and wtf.

    Well, here we are now. It’s about 15 years later. By now I have a toddler who speaks “English” but it’s basically just meme quotes in fitting situations because her parents mostly communicate in memes.

    • @rockSlayer@lemmy.world
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      Beautiful. You’re raising a top tier meme lord. Meme nostalgia is gonna be huge

  • Noble Shift
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    • @Daxtron2@startrek.website
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      Its not about the cat its about the reaction image being interpreted without its usual text because many people have seen it so many times that its not needed.

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  • @TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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    I don’t get it even now

    • @felsiq@lemmy.zip
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      The face is from the “it’s free real estate” meme, with the unspoken words being the punchline

      • @masterspace@lemmy.ca
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        It’s also [the face my cat makes when he’s found a good box.

  • SendPicsofSandwiches
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    A dog walks into a bar and says, ‘I cannot see a thing. I’ll open this one.’

    • @Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
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      I think I first heard this from Ea-nāṣir

      • @samus12345@lemmy.world
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        So his jokes were as shitty as his copper!

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    • @littlewonder@lemmy.world
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      I Googled this, read about it, and then found a Reddit thread where two historian/Sumerologists get into a discussion about the potential meaning.

      Maybe it is we who are the joke.

    • @flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
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      I just love that “x walks into a bar” is such a universal joke format. Even if we don’t know why it was funny.

    • @Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
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      I think I first heard this from Ea-nāṣir

  • @recapitated@lemmy.world
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    I absolutely love the idea that hieroglyphics were all just period specific dank memes that we just don’t get because we’re not in.

  • Flying Squid
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    That’s okay, some big thing like a Carrington Event is going to destroy the Internet as we know it one day and we’ll lose a huge chunk of human history that was never preserved any other way.

  • @samus12345@lemmy.world
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    6•1 year ago

    If they can read the English of this era and cats are still around, yes they will. The expression is pretty universal as depicting satisfied smugness.

    • @MacedWindow@lemmy.worldOP
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      Aha but that would be only partially correct! Theres more to free real estate than smugness.

  • @birbs@lemmy.world
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    6•1 year ago

    I thought this was the adoring fan from Oblivion until I saw someone linked the source.

  • @Squirrel@thelemmy.club
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    6•1 year ago

    A bit off topic, but I was playing RimWorld and ended up with a colonist nicknamed Real Estate. He got captured during a raid at one point. I kept waiting for the quest to rescue him so I could post this meme, but it never happened…

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