• KeriKitty (They(/It))@pawb.social
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    2 months ago

    People come to a meme community and expect a deep, well-reasoned essay on the state of things and the best ways forward from one captioned image :-\ Is there not a dichotomy between nuance and memes?

    The comments around here are just wild flailings based mostly on assumptions. There’s nothing to argue with. It’s a picture with some text on it, popularized as the simplest form of humour. Looking at the comments around here now feels like watching a bunch of people arguing with a dog. There’s really not so much being said.

    This is kinda baffling, is what I’m getting at. It looks like almost nothing’s been said so people are furiously attacking things that haven’t. 🤷

    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 months ago

      For real. It happens constantly. There’s a lot of sealions out there who take the existence of a meme as an invite to a debate.

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        2 months ago

        It’s a political community mate. We take it in the worst context.

        This is Lord of the Flies. I know it, you know it, we expect to be hung here.