I thought “bless your heart” was just a meme up until I went back to my Midwestern home state with my wife (from Mexico) and our two chihuahuas. In a tourist “town” she’d gone into a bakery and I waited for her with the dogs outside.
Another white family (I’m white) had walked up and started talking to me. They were pretty friendly up until I mentioned we were visiting from Los Angeles at which point they responded “bless your heart” in a heavy southern accent and immediately walked away. It was kind of jarring seeing that kind of behavior after years of living away from there.
I feel like everyone is forgetting that memes are any idea that spreads like a virus, and not just .webms of tweets with the phrase “nobody:” at the top
It’s ok to have an opinion, even when you’re objectively wrong. A meme is just ‘a unit of cultural transmission’, and image macros and funny pictures are all memes, just like phrases or dances are as well.
I thought “bless your heart” was just a meme up until I went back to my Midwestern home state with my wife (from Mexico) and our two chihuahuas. In a tourist “town” she’d gone into a bakery and I waited for her with the dogs outside.
Another white family (I’m white) had walked up and started talking to me. They were pretty friendly up until I mentioned we were visiting from Los Angeles at which point they responded “bless your heart” in a heavy southern accent and immediately walked away. It was kind of jarring seeing that kind of behavior after years of living away from there.
Some small town rednecks think larger cities are some sort of crime ridden hell hole where you have a 78.3% chance of being murdered on any given day.
I think they’re really just afraid of traffic and people who aren’t white.
I mean… It is a meme.
I feel like everyone is forgetting that memes are any idea that spreads like a virus, and not just .webms of tweets with the phrase “nobody:” at the top
It’s offensive (for me) to consider the “nobody:” posts memes.
Likewise, expressions are not memes either.
I will gatekeep this, and if you think that’s wrong, just think of it like I’m making gatekeeping a meme.
It’s ok to have an opinion, even when you’re objectively wrong. A meme is just ‘a unit of cultural transmission’, and image macros and funny pictures are all memes, just like phrases or dances are as well.
Bless your heart
Expressions aren’t memes, huh. I give that a 23 skidoo out of 10.
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