tuna@discuss.tchncs.deOPtoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•Upvotes on memes function like modern day laugh tracks
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5 months agoLMAO, yeah this one didnt seem to hit did it
LMAO, yeah this one didnt seem to hit did it
And make sure the time is synced to the cloud so they need internet connection, and so the player can’t be sneaky and reload the game to reset the timer if they pressed x too many times
Yeah, thinking about it more, the similarities are kind of narrow.
You could make a better comparison with a regular crowd, but then it wouldn’t feel like much of a showerthought at that point because it’s just observing that the crowd has moved online.
Laugh tracks might be used to improve there ratings of a show, but with memes there’s not really a show and no one’s forcing a laugh
I think the essence of what I was thinking of though is that just like a regular crowd, an online crowd can still influence you to think something is funnier or better than you would alone (at least for me)