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  • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    No that's exactly what they are. Memes. They're also propaganda.

    Don't mistake the form of a communication with the message it carries.

    • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      well at that point you can call anything a meme (which it technically would be)

      Fine, these are "propaganda memes", and the ones before were not, or at least were much less so. Explicit propaganda isn't that funny to me, nor to many others. The question was "what meme do you not like" and they answered it

      • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        In the Dawkins sense, yes, correct, they're all memes, and as morally and politically neutral as an empty cup. They carry a message. It could be some racist bullshit, or it can be :wojak-nooo: CONTROLLERCELS MALDING OVER ALPHA CHAD KEYBOARD AND MOUSE USERS :gigachad:

        Not that some messages don't have a preferred means of delivery. Like, the empty cup can still have a swastika on it. But I don't feel that the virgin/chad is that. It's just so inherently silly that nobody but a fucking moron could use it completely unironically.

        (Also just to be obnoxiously pedantic "propaganda" technically refers to anything created with the purpose of dissemination so yes memes are propaganda and propaganda is memes :very-smart: )