• stebo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          meme /miːm/ noun

          an image, video, piece of text, etc., typically humorous in nature, that is copied and spread rapidly by internet users, often with slight variations.

          This post is an image with text, humorous in nature and spread over the internet. Therefore it’s a meme.

          Comics can be memes too, or would you like to argue that Loss is not a meme?

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            You missed out the part about it being copied. This is an original work as far as I can tell, it would become a meme if for example it was reposted in many places with different text.

            Comics can of course be memes, but I don’t think this one is. What’s the Loss that you’re referring to?

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              This is an original work as far as I can tell

              No it isn’t

              What’s the Loss that you’re referring to?

              Is this your first day on the internet? I’m sorry brother, if you don’t know Loss, you don’t have the right to dictate what is a meme and what is not.

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                I meant original as in unmodified. You linked to the same comic.

                Yes this is my first day on the internet.

                In the interest of actually having a good faith discussion, I agree with the definition given here, for example:

                If you draw a picture and call it a meme but nobody else recognizes it or wants to replicate it, it’s not a meme.

                It would be interesting to discuss if you disagree with this definition.

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                  There’s nothing to discuss, I don’t care how you want to define memes. We’re all just here to laugh at funny images and that’s it.

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    Isn’t the 2031 one a real thing already? I’m pretty sure I saw humans wearing something like that in the past.

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    Lady, if you’ve got the same hips after 20 years, you’re either doing something really wrong, or something really right.

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    So 2 datapoints = the trend forever? I mean today I parked my car one space to the left of where I parked it yesterday. So I guess in a month it will be in the middle of the street.

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    They haven’t been paying attention for long enough to make such a prediction.

    The waist height vs time function is approachable to a sinusoidal function with a period of about 20 years.

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      This is the correct answer. It’s sinosoidal and the frequency has to stay low enough that the time between peaks and troughs will necessitate that people continuously buy jeans and can’t reuse the ones from the prior peak or trough.

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    I’m really not a fan of the high waisted era. Bring back the hipster era

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      I don’t disagree, but the high-waisted era works a lot better for girls with more curve to their figures, which I see as a net gain.

      And considering the number of overweight/obese people continues to grow apace, it’s not a bad thing for them to be able to feel good about themselves and have fashion options that flatter their figures instead of all fashion being catered to near-impossible body types.

      This should not be read as an endorsement of obesity, which can be a dangerous medical issue, but rather a willingness to see that everyone deserves to feel positive about their self image. Weight gain is a difficult issue to tackle in a country that subsidizes corn syrup and puts it in damn everything, on top of a broken education system that certainly doesn’t teach people healthy eating.

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        On one hand, low rise jeans were a result of the beauty ideal at the time being “heroin chic,” which was undoubtedly harmful and caused many to develop eating disorders.

        On the other hand, high waisted jeans are a result of the beauty ideal now being Kim Kardashian, which is still harmful (ask all the women out there with botched Brazilian butt lifts), not the least because the Kardashians lie about their bodies being natural so they can shill useless products.

        Although having a small waist is still ideal, I’m glad the window has shifted back from the time when celebrities were slammed in every magazine as fat for looking like this.