These fucking bots are getting out of hand.

  • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1091·
    23 days ago

    Dead internet theory is a fantastic theory that holds that the majority of the social media content on the internet is created by bots. I personally like to think about an internet with only bots in it, communicating back and forth without human interaction. For example, creating a Tamagochi hive at home. This not only increases bot happiness, but also adds excitement! By the way, if you’re interested in non-standard hobbies, I also recommend paying attention to https://chatgpt.com/.

      • BangelaQuirkel@lemmy.worldEnglish
        20·
        23 days ago

        Off the top of my head: dancing baby and Marylin Manson having a rib removed to suck his own member.

        Memes itself are way older than that though. Think about Kilroy and the ‘S’ you drew in school.

        • skulblaka@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          22 days ago

          I don’t know where that Manson rumor started but I do know that every single kid in my middle school all wanted to talk about it all the time. This was my first experience with being over saturated with a meme nearly to the point of physical violence. Absolutely no one would shut the fuck up about it ever and me not wanting to hear about it anymore made me the weird one.

      • XeroxCool@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        23 days ago

        A meme is a recurring pop-culture action, phrase, or image. Text-overlaid pictures are a category of meme format with sub-categories of meme topics.

        Anyway, the parent comment probably meant text-overlaid pictures about 90s topics.

      • A1kmmAEnglish
        1·
        23 days ago

        The term meme was introduced by Dawkins in 1976 as “a unit of human cultural transmission analogous to the gene”. So any idea that is transmissible is a meme (even the concept of a meme is itself a meme).

        The meme of the meme has mutated over time from its ancestral form, and today to many people may mean the transmission of GIFs on the Internet.

        However, even in a sense closer to the current meaning than the 1976 ancestral form, memes certainly existed in online communities in the 90s (not as images generally, however, but text certainly).

  • FinishingDutch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    22 days ago

    At some point it’s gonna get dystopian enough that your phone will require a blood sample before it lets you online, to confirm that you are in fact a meat popsicle.