Why do people even keep folders of memes? Are they archiving for future generations?

(It’s so I can reply quickly with them, but this is the only one I have saved.)

Just tell your mom you're into bodybuilding.

Body builders clearly aren't gay, they're just totally into being ripped and admiring other ripped men's muscles.

Yeah but how is digging through a folder of memes any faster than simply googling the image you want?

I dont archive memes but I think its 2-part

1. They can't google 4chan OC because it disappears before it can be indexed
2. Its not just about finding an image, but also about finding an image with the right caption, so they dont have to caption it themselves, because work

As a minor language nerd, I would like to posit a 2.5, if you will: memery as a dialect and individual memes as bespoke words.

Like, consider this sequence of emoji: 🌍 🧑‍🚀 🔫 🧑‍🚀

Chances are, you're familiar enough with memes that you can infer the meaning of an English sentence which has nothing to do with the actual representational meaning of those emoji independently. By placing them in this specific context, I have communicated a meaning beyond their intended representation.

By a similar token, different specific memes under the same genre (e.g. Gigachad) may be equated with synonyms, and different contexts may call for different "words" (i.e. individual memes).

I pray Lord Apollo is kind enough to me for that to make sense because Hypnos is buzzing 'round my head and it's getting hard to think

On the phone I usually save and upload them to share with people, but not deleting them afterwards leaves me with a collection of memes I like, that I can browse every few months-years and look at how things have changed

I do know one person who has a litany of Psych memes ready for nearly any situation.

Have you seen Google lately?

The thing about moms is that they will ask if you are gay over the smallest most trivial things. In many cases it seems like they want you to be gay.

I think this might be a generational difference in showing acceptance. My dad asked me if I was a lesbian all the time, because he wanted to reassure me that he still loved me if so. I found it very annoying when I was in middle/high school, but in my case it was basically harmless, so whatever. Hopefully your mom’s just doing the same :)

I try not to

I feel like it's a form of brain training to be able to remember the right sequence of words to search to summon a niche meme

Meme folders are the junk food of internet society

Everyone is about instant gratification smdh

Not gay, as long as the folder is called "no homo".

Doesn't work if not going to the gym

fake: mom "found" folder

gay: collects pics of naked men

I was looking for the old "You may be cool, but you'll never be 5 popped collars cool" meme a few days ago and the only images I could find were thumbnails. I miss the old demotivational format

Can't be me /s

https://meme.idunnololz.com/

Sokath, his eyes uncovered!

It's bang on how the aliens in the TNG episode Darmok communicate. Their spoken language is based entirely on metaphors and historical/cultural references, and meaning is derived from a shared understanding of those memes within the present context.

Show her your folder of incest porn to prove you're not gay anon.

Google sucks these days, it's way faster.

It’s not always easy to find the exact meme I have in mind, there have been a couple times that I gave up on internet searching for one because it just wasn’t showing up. I also prefer scrolling through a bunch of memes that I’ve already vetted as good rather than the sea of meme trash the internet holds.

Google photos. Shame on you.

All the giga chads are wearing socks

Not in my experience. women my own age and a generation younger than me ask me if I'm gay regularly, or assume I am gay.

because of stupid shit like that I drink tea, read books, cook, clean, have a cat, don't drive a pickup truck, etc. these things are all 'feminine' coded, and if you engage in them as a man you must be effeminate and therefore gay.

a lot of people have a really bizarrely narrow conception of what a heterosexual man must be and any deviation from that image makes them instantly assume you're partially homosexual.

I've not seen a whole lot of TNG so I've only managed to hear about that episode thru this exact kind of talk -- I know I need to look it up and I'm glad you mention the episode title b/c I don't think I'd heard it before.

I don’t remember the 5 one but I remember this one:

I just thought of something, what if a greentext admits to being gay?

Would it be fake and straight or real and gay?

It's a paradox.

sometimes being gay is just gay

Adding to what others have said, so much internet has been purged in recent years that the meme might very well be lost media.

It's universally considered one of the best episodes of all of Star Trek, up there with The Drumhead and The Measure of a Man. TNG is at its best when it touches contemporary philosophical subjects within the framework of sci-fi and an enlightened human golden age.

If you're not committed to watching the entire series and don't mind missing some minor context, you should probably start with season 2. Season 1 ("before the beard") is an extremely mixed bag, including one hilariously racist episode.

Undefined and bi

What's a gigachad folder?

Mooo000mmmm, your embarsseeng meeee, they r dank mememes

I don't want to expose my server to potentially millions of people :D

Every time I can’t find an old internet thing lament not having a meme folder. 😭 Who knew the internet would just forget about stuff.

Fuck the drumhead was so good…

don't forget smiles

yeah, i used to from bookmark articles and recipes on the internet i want to use in the future. Now I transcribe them into my personal database of useful text files. which is backed up five to six places right now (internet, computers, phones, plus paper copies of all the recipes) so i shouldn't have to worry about losing shit.

should(n't) is one of my least favorite words tho

A 9/11 folder but with images of gigachads

Is anon Claviculer?

I'm jerking off to the idea of being them, not to their perfectly chiseled faces and washboard abs.

Every day we drift closer to MySpace

Yes.

Templates, reaction images, archives to access when the relevant opportunity arises.

Step 1: cultivate mass

The manliest man I've ever met topped me throughout the night.