• Lauchs@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    I think they mean in a boilerplate joke sense.

    Making a meme is like making a joke where the punchline is basically worked out for you, you just need to figure out ingredients.

    I’m not great with meme templates but take the Drake ugh/yay one. You just need something we dislike and a related thing we like. The punch line is Drake’s expression etc.

    There’s more to a good meme but…

    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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      46 minutes ago

      Yeah, I get that. It’s just, there isn’t really a revelation here. That’s just what memes are: units of cultural expression based on broadly recognizable forms. “A hammer is a weight on a stick you hit things with” isn’t really a showerthought, it’s just stating the definition of a hammer.