Upvotes on memes function like modern day laugh tracks

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• breadsmasher@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  🦗🦗🦗

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  • tuna@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    LMAO, yeah this one didnt seem to hit did it

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• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂😂

  I didn’t know how to react at first, but once you got over 20 upvotes, it all made sense.

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• abbadon420@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think that’s not quite right, but it’s certainly an interesting take.

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  • tuna@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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 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 influence you to think something is funnier or better than you would alone (at least for me)

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• Loduz_247@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So in the future those upvotes will have deceased people.

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• Resol@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So… downvotes function like boos?

  Asking for some.

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