this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2023
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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Richard Dawkins coined the term in 1976

[–] plsletmelogin@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, but prior to meme becoming the term to refer to these pictures, they were largely known as image macros on /b/, which is the home of the cock mongler.

[–] Bartlebad@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly right. Image macros, demotivational posters, or whatever else they were called back then are now all memes.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All image macros are memes, but not all memes are image macros.

[–] Bartlebad@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I...didn't say they were?

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