You are absolutely right! The problem is not you, in fact it is everyone else.

Did you respond to the wrong comment? Because I’m having trouble imagining what you could possibly be referring to

RRR is fantastic

See, that’s the thing. They are still memes. Bits of information that are transmitted with or without modification.

If a copypasta isn’t iconic, that doesn’t mean it’s not a meme. It’s just a less successful meme than the navyseals meme. Same thing with greentexts, images, comics, reddit posts.

Nah, OP is just straight denying that screenshots of text are memes. Claiming some bullshit like having to make some change to it for it to qualify as a meme. Just ignoring reposts of green texts, copypasta, reddit stories (poop knife, cylinder, cbat guy, etc etc etc etc), people getting ratioed on twitter, tumblr chains.

Like, wtf kinda change does OP want me to make if I wanna revive some old classic greentext. Draw a big red circle on it? Slap a wojak right in the middle?

Screenshots are lazy, sure, but they are definitely still memes. Whether an exact replica or not.

OP: 👏 TOMATO 👏 IS 👏 NOT 👏 A 👏 FRUIT 👏

Everyone: tomatoes are botanically considered a fruit

OP: ackshually I don’t like it in my fruit salad, therefore it is not a fruit

An exact copy of a gene is a gene. An exact copy of a meme is a meme.

Well said.

When everything is a meme, nothing is

“When everything is made of genes, nothing is”

This is just an assertion, and a false one too.

Everything is a meme, and they behave exactly like genes. They replicate themselves, perfectly or imperfectly, and are then subject to competition for users’ attention which will affect their future replication.

Another meme is attempting to outcompete the screenshot genus of memes, by using you as a propagation tool: the “screenshots of text are not memes” meme.

Edit: downvote me if you want but you can’t deny the facts. The idea I expressed in this comment was also a meme whose chances of propagation were diminished from your downvote.

It’s the dictionary definition

TIL letting my teacher make suggestions on my draft means they control the entire contents of the final paper

The heat isn’t transmitted via photons, it’s transmitted via convection. The air acts as a medium to transmit the heat energy outward. The heating element itself emits photons because it gets hot enough where the atoms within vibrate at a frequency which reaches the visible spectrum of light. That’s why cooler elements glow red (lower frequency) and hotter elements glow blue (higher frequency). Most of the heat energy is not contained in the photons, you need an output on the level of the sun to achieve that. With regards to the sun, all of the energy is carried by radiation anyway, because convective currents can’t travel in the vacuum of space.

May I introduce you to exurb1a

By “service” they probably mean something closer to “community service”: volunteering to help out your community and the people in need around you. Many people find it quite fulfilling.