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halvar@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Yes, but this is by definition a meme. A placebo meme would be something that looks like a meme but has no joke in it. Anything circa 2017 should do.
prex@aussie.zone 6 months ago
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 6 months ago
Is Milhouse a good placebo?
ignotum@lemmy.world 6 months ago
What separates a placebo from an anti-meme?
halvar@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Picture an image with an explanation of said image written on it. That’s the anti-meme.
It becomes an anti-meme, by “misunderstanding” the fundamental nature of memes. Like explaining what is happening on the image, instead of reframing it with new text.
Now picture any random image, with any random text. That’s the placebo.
A placebo-meme is something that doesn’t have any intent of being funny, in fact it has no way of becoming funny (other then trough irony). So yes, those 2017 memes are not placebos, because an inside-joke was already in place, making them “funny” for the intended audiance.
With the current state of memes it became hard to actually construct a placebo, since anything not even remotely funny, something containing absolutely no trace of humor could still be picked up as a “senseless joke”.
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