How can people actually be so stupid that they believe a MEME of a FROG is racist? People need to stop excessively labelling stuff as racist and harassment.
The media started it. Trump retweeted a Pepe format meme and all of the sudden Pepe was a white supremacy symbol. My question is why do people blindly believe stuff like that?
I thought it was people in alt right forums who used the meme. And then when that deal became mainstream it became this whole “Pepe is alt right and automatically means you’re a Neo-Nazi” kinda bull. Feels bad man.
It’s more complex than that. There is nothing inherently racist about the confederate battle flag, the finely tailored designer label uniforms of Nazis look rather snappy with their shiny riding boots. The simplistic design of the hammer and sickle Soviet flag. As well as the message of for the people by the people are themselves sentiments most patriotic Americans can certainly respect. But all these things alone are symbols, all of them may- removed from their context, have nothing to do with unpleasant ideologies. Many of them were not intended to stand for atrocities and hate- Marx and Lenin did not support the Stalinism that most well defined the soviet flag- yet when that flag fell it fell by the people- making any illusions of a classesless utopia patently false. So the symbol or its oringins or even its designers intent aren’t what defines its meaning, some things are adopted and come to represent a different set of ideas or a twisted version of what theor intent was.
i don't know how Apple's airdrop works, don't use it myself, does it just show someone nearby? like just an ID? does it show a photo? seems she likes to use "White Supremacist" a lot to try to prove something she believes in, playing the victim all the time
I use air drop at the airport to send sloth NASA photos to strangers. I change my iPhone name to the name of the airline... so it looks like Delta is sending them photos. Never, ever said anything risqué as you could sending it to kids.
Also, this thread is like 18 months old... are bots still posting old things?
While I agree that if there's a meme that has been recently put into a negative light for whatever reason, then maybe don't send that to strangers because of how they might feel about it, but I also will admit that I have only ever heard mention of the Alt Right Pepe thing once and it was months ago. I had completely forgotten about the connection that some people are putting between the two until reading this woman's tweets. So maybe Jacob here hadn't heard about it, and thought it was still a "pre alt right/Trump use" Pepe which as we can recall, is hilarious and harmless. If he was sending swastikas and saying he didn't know what they meant, then he's probably lying, but this woman went so ridiculously overboard with her harassment of this guy.
I mean, the alt right totally made Pepe a racist meme. So, like, know your meme? And don’t air drop ones that have become racist to people you don’t know?
I hate to be contentious- but actually yes. The way people use memes literally changes memes. By definition: Meme- an element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means, especially imitation.
a humorous image, video, piece of text, etc., that is copied (often with slight variations) and spread rapidly by Internet users.
From Wikipedia:
A meme (/miːm/ MEEM[1][2][3]) is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture—often with the aim of conveying a particular phenomenon, theme, or meaning represented by the meme.[4] A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices, that can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena with a mimicked theme.
So quite literally, the meaning of a meme is individual to a sender and receiver as they define the meme, and the cultural meaning of a meme dependent on the general perception of a meme within a culture. Memes are often used where things are substitutions for other things, and what each element represents can change over time. Formats reused or repurposed, modified- and come to be associated with certain things. Hence the “wrong meme” when someone uses a meme format in a way we are unfamiliar with, we expect an unpopular opinion bird to have a certain text just as we expect a wolf to be something “savage.” And that can change too. A simple picture of an unrelated thing without text can represent a political leader or celebrity, and a meme can be related to another meme and not need context for those familiar to understand that meme A referenced a certain idea, and meme B references meme A without a word or obvious allusion refers to the concept of meme A. So not saying she’s right or.
Also, this thread is like 18 months old... are bots still posting old things?
a humorous image, video, piece of text, etc., that is copied (often with slight variations) and spread rapidly by Internet users.
From Wikipedia:
A meme (/miːm/ MEEM[1][2][3]) is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture—often with the aim of conveying a particular phenomenon, theme, or meaning represented by the meme.[4] A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices, that can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena with a mimicked theme.