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by moneytide1 2258 days ago
I have not yet heard "No meme". Interesting. I saw the word "meme" in Richard Dawkin's book before I was noticing it on the internet, something about how flocks of chickens and their pecking order have memes of behavior that are remembered and retransmitted if useful - so the idea has existed before the internet gave it to us (theme or target subject is the picture, text overlay is the pitched opinion) - such an image is worth a thousand words so its a fast (shortcut without research) Information Age method of "voting" for or against a pitched idea?

"No meme" could suggest "Don't try to shortcut and assume things about <some statement>" because we have realized that memes are a lazy way to transmit ideas without research? Disinformation seems to be the consequence of exponentially increasing bandwidth for all....
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tareqak 2258 days ago
I encountered the “No meme” that I mentioned on Twitch (twitch.tv). Over there, “No meme” is similar to “No joke” and “memeing” is similar to “joking” except that there is an overarching theme/meme that is being referred to as part of the joke in question. Sorry, I should I have been more clear.
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moneytide1 2255 days ago
No need to apologize, because this is a matter of intellectual discourse. Being "clear" (also a Scientology concept) implies that you wanted me to "see it your way" instead of inspiring my new thought vector (which you have - my past 72 hours have been positively altered because of your input on this surrogate-preface-phrasing matter).

But now that you have clarified your intended description of your twitch.tv banter encounter - it makes sense. "No meme" is a synonym for "no joke". Joking exists as an informal method of addressing (challenging?) a certain idea, and laughter reporting (lol, rofl, lmao, etc) confirms reception. Twitch seems to be a social arena for leisure, where workers exchange ideas and bond after-hours over a shared virtual experience with allotted "free" time (virtual/comfortable, therefore abundance of "joking" because nothing is at stake). But when a user desires to "get down to business" and submit concepts to the local chat space because her/his mind has been prompted to consider more pressing issues, then the surrogate-preface-phrase "no meme" can be applied in order to summon the "real world" empathy of connected compatriots also confined to the same virtual space.

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