this post was submitted on 05 Nov 2025
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was.. he using youtube as a backup?! like, just reupload, or ipfs, torrent, like.. there are ways to male this NEVER GO AWAY
Don't you want YouTube to crack down on hate speech? Isn't exposing Israeli war crimes obvious antisemitism? /s
lol that's so funny <-- presumably what you thought when you decided to post this is in a "meme" community instead of some kind of serious political comm.
Yeah as someone who browses by all and came across this, I upvoted without realising the Community it's in. But you're right. This is in no way a meme.
Most things called "memes" are not memes as the term was originally defined.
Every bit of information is a meme as the term was originally definition. Nowadays, the term means "something funny on the internet".
What makes something a meme?
Following the Internet definition of it? (Because we wouldn't want to commit the etymological fallacy, would we?) It's a piece of content that follows a known predictable format, or that at least appears to do so but subverts it. I don't agree with @FishFace@piefed.social that anything funny on the Internet is a meme, or even that memes need to be funny (though they usually are). But it's certainly a notably different meaning from the broader cultural one that Dawkins came up with 50 years ago.
Wiktionary's definition 2 is pretty good:
Media, usually humorous, which is copied and circulated online with slight adaptations, such as basic pictures, video templates, etc.
The whole thing is presented in a meme format that usually consists of two non-meme panels.
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The post references a fairly known meme format:
knowyourmeme.com/memes/how-it-started-vs-how-its-going
Apart from that meme bit, the memetic value is very low bcs all the text is very literate and direct (proper journalistic) to not cause any doubts about the main story conveyed.
So I would def say it's technically a meme (and the format is used correctly) + it has some microblog aspects too. I think it fits the community (purely based on the name alone I mean).
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How does he think a “human rights violation” wouldn’t break TOS? That doesn’t even make sense. I’m all for calling out bullshit but let’s not pretend war videos don’t break community guidelines.