They just increased the workload for family court.
How so?
Note: I was once a victim of revenge porn, back in 2007 before it was a “thing”, I feel I have to disclose. I have personal feels about this shit.
Hard times ahead for Florida Man.
I’m surprised that you even have to lobby for these kinds of laws. Oh Florida…
Is the photograph posted with this article in any way related to the article or is it just eye candy? Not a very good reporting job.
Apparently an obscure Reddit “meme”
Off topic, when did “meme” go from being a cultural phenomenon that is subject to natural selection, to funny words on an image?
Is the photo-with-words itself a meme? Is calling it a meme a meme?
Yes
It bugs the hell out of me too, since the original concept of the word is so much more interesting, but I don’t know another widely-recognized term for “photo-with-caption-that-is-passed-around-online.” I’m open to suggestions.
Before meme was a widespread term, they were originally called “image macros”
I’m pretty sure “meme” in the original sense (Dawkins, 1976) predates image macros by a few decades. Macros is a confusing name for them anyway. Is it because adding text in outlined white Impact is done by a macro script? They’re not generally macro in the photography sense.
According to the Wikipedia entry for Image Macro:
The term "image macro" originated on forum websites.[2] The name derived from the fact that the "macros" were a short bit of text a user could enter that the forum software would automatically parse and expand into the code for a pre-defined image.[2] This in turn related to the computer science topic of a macro, defined as "a rule or pattern that specifies how a certain input sequence (often a sequence of characters) should be mapped to an output sequence (also often a sequence of characters) according to a defined procedure".
I still have no idea why they call image macros memes. And it’s frustrating that people get confused when I refer to some belief or idea as a meme, and have to explain that they’re using a very narrow definition of the word, when it refers to much more than just lolcats.
Viral captioned photo or viral captioned image?
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