Its not malicious compliance to hang up on a customer in the middle of a call, or ignore other customers calling during business hours because your boss mandates you take lunch at an exact time? Whatever you say, buddy.
That’s mostly true, except memes are ideas, more specifically ideas that spread by being repeated or more accurately by imitation.
I read the book where Richard Dawkins coined the term.
A key feature about a true meme is that it can evolve, which could be said to have been the case here if the meme had been changed. to use the drawing u/Appoxo made for me.
The meaning of a meme can change separately from the image itself. That’s what makes it a recognizable concept distinct from the image in the first place.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And? Does that make it better or worse. Personally I don’t give a shit that he is a meme guy, he is not the right meme guy for this sort of memes IMO.
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It’s a story about workers flexing their strength against the boss and having the boss back down. It seems to fit just fine to me.
I can’t possibly imagine why you seem to be so offended over all this.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Except it’s not really malicious compliance, it’s just compliance.
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Its not malicious compliance to hang up on a customer in the middle of a call, or ignore other customers calling during business hours because your boss mandates you take lunch at an exact time? Whatever you say, buddy.
PunnyName@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The muscle of the Union.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Memes are conceptual not literal
Buffalox@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s mostly true, except memes are ideas, more specifically ideas that spread by being repeated or more accurately by imitation.
I read the book where Richard Dawkins coined the term.
A key feature about a true meme is that it can evolve, which could be said to have been the case here if the meme had been changed. to use the drawing u/Appoxo made for me.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The meaning of a meme can change separately from the image itself. That’s what makes it a recognizable concept distinct from the image in the first place.