https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/post/3mwu3ic4euk2k

OR...and hear me out...she was in fact a serial killer with the perfect alibi?

The story es even wilder. The swaps were used in the racist killings of the NSU, muddling that even more.

What a clusterfuck

Please enlighten me as to how this counts in any way as a meme.

Edit: yes, except for, very specifically, the Dawkinsian sense, if one insists.

Perhaps the phantom itself was the meme by definition of those days, at the dawn of the Internet.. (:

It is a screenshot of text. Obviously that makes it the meme-est meme of all memes.

Where meme though?

I was there, Gandalf, I was there 3000 years ago. It wasn't a meme.

This is really just a c/funny/mildlyinteresting/TIL/meme/SoMescreendumps mashup community by now...it's total anarchy with no direction or moderation.

The meme is that it's an anti-meme. Very, very meta. Peak shitposting.

I'm listening, but there's a deafening sound of a little lady standing by a swab production line, occasionally giving in to her intrusive thoughts of randomly snatching a swab, licking it, feeling a tiny shiver up her spine, giggling briefly, and putting it back. Her heart fluttering each time she dreamt of her next lick.

That's just to create noise in the pattern

She killed people without her face

That's nothing to what Bert Thistlewaite does to them further down the line.

I hadn't heard of those...

What a world we live in. Neo-Nazis actually roamed the streets in the Netherlands against during an extreme-right protest, last weekend...

Based

Is that a statement, compliment or an insult? I'm not good with gen Z (or is it alpha?) lingo...

"Based" is generally positive.

See Urban Dictionary.

Sure - a meme is a unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another, often propagating throughout a community and frequently subject to a form of cultural evolution.

I know what Dawkins wrote but that definition is so all-encompassing to be unhelpful outside a specific area of discussion which is why in everyday parlance it's not used.

I enjoyed watching Bert until he started charging

The meme is the idea of the serial killer that was propagated through the law enforcement community.

So 40 murder cases in 15 years with no resolution.

Also, there's sure to be a useless trivia community?

True. Alrighty, I'll accept that in the very original Dawkinsian sense, this can be considered a meme, if you squint. I still think it goes against the spirit of the community because the context is the internet in which the word means something else.

Of course OP is too incompetent to post the link to the source, so here we go again:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_of_Heilbronn

While I sympathize with your frustration, this is the same question we were asking at the fin de ciecle over Duchamp's Fontaine over "is this art?" - and has been repeated in "what is theatre/fiction?" "Is borat fiction?" "Is an advertisement a movie?" "Are documentaries neccessarily non fiction?" which leads you all the way back to epistemology, the Socratic method, and a state of aporia.

The only reasonable conclusion is "if anyone says it's a meme it's a meme"

I don't think I agree. I'd define an "internet meme" as an inside joke (in the very broadest of senses) shared on the internet. There needs to be a certain number of people who agree that it's funny and worth repeating and propagating for it to qualify. Like the original idea definition of a "meme", really, where an idea only becomes a cultural unit once it leaps from one mind to another. Also, Milhouse is not a meme.

WFM

It's millennial lingo actually.

The powers that be once again erasing women's achievements.

I mean per my previous comment: define "inside" "joke" "shared" "internet" "certain number" "agree" "one mind" "another mind"...

I could email myself the letter "e" and then say "this is funny" to myself and it would meet this definition

There's still only one mind involved in your scenario.

licks fingers you need to keep your fingers moist when packaging up these little swaps, wouldn't want them getting contaminated from a drop on the floor!

lil b would be rolling in his grave if he saw how people used it today

Myself at two different points in time could be considered "two minds": my mind now, my mind at the point of sending the email, especially if the time period involved is a long time and I forgot about it.

Failing that I could email it to anyone - they don't even need to recieve the email as the qualia of receiving the communication wasn't specified in the definition.

Reminder my original point was that eventually this conversation will lead to aporia.

Well I'm almost 40 so just about as millennial as it gets, I've only ever heard it from people in their mid 20's

The mind in your past has ceased to exist. The content of that email remains in one mind, it just a different one, by your definition.

They do need to receive it and read since it has to at the very least enter their minds and ideally they have to think it's funny/interesting/worth sharing/etc.

A meme is a joke told in the form of a funny picture on the internet. This screenshot from Wikipedia may not be a typical meme, but it does have the structure of a joke, including a punch line.

The perfect alibi does not exist. /s

one mind... just a different one

My point exactly. But ignoring that?

they have to receive it

Define recieve, is inbox OK? Is a glance ok? Do they have to understand it? (Is an Italian meme a meme if I don't speak italian?)

You were saying the OP wasn't a meme, but it was recieved by at least you and me, and unknowably countless others.

It's a self replicating idea

If you don't like the meaning of the word "meme", you don't need to use c/memes.

Her heart fluttering each time she dreamt of her next lick.

Wait. When did Lemmy turn into a romance novel?

The resolution was that the DNA didn't belong to anyone involved in any of the crimes. It belonged to a woman who worked at the factory that made the contaminated swabs.

Where you been surewhynot the whole intranets a romance novel

You can just post the source with calling them names... Incompetent seems pretty harsh for fucking social media lol. Cool off, touch grass, deep breaths.

Well apparently people can always link the bluesky post or shitty ad infested news websites but never the original article/source. Which usually takes an additional 10s to find.

That's why I call them incompetent.

For real that's like Dexter Morgan's cover for why he has so many blood slides. Uhh I work in a forensics lab...duh.

The same reason I jizz in all the urine cups for drug tests at my job. There's no way the administration would fire all of us and leave the students high and dry, which is why I believe I've never been fired from my job as a middle school janitor despite my addiction to roofie-ing myself on a nightly basis, cuz I got my DNA all up in their urine, but really their urine was in my DNA. A fuck, I got my coat wet. The shit I do for my country.

Do not talk to me about Dawkinsian sense, I was there where it got Elevated. /meme

Doesn't matter if it's a Wikipedia screenshot, it's a Wikipedia screenshot documenting an ancient meme. Like how the pic above is a widely propagated meme about a video game scene that actually refers to Dawkinsian stuff. Geddit?