Half as Interesting explained how it ended up like this. https://piped.video/watch?v=_Bq-6GeRhys
TL;DW; Amazon tried to offload vetting of the third party vendors to the patent and trademark office by requiring their brands are registered, but the vendors ended up generating nonsense brand names that automatically pass because there are too many applications and the names aren’t obviously going to conflict with existing ones.
Yes, I do. A lot. Starting from elementary school when a class mate had a really weird pronunciation of Harry Potter.
Some of my embarrassing memories aren’t even something I did, but something I cringed hard at when I saw or heard it. Sometimes I am so afraid someone else is going to embarrass themself I have to block my ears so I don’t hear it.
The smallest circle should be half way out, because a lot gets misunderstood.
Yeah, that’s the joke. The video ends abruptly because of a segfault.
Once an idea is passed to event a single other person it has spread.
This was getting popular
https://sopuli.xyz/post/1210362
But the it was posted and screenshotted on Twitter to be posted back here and everything went downhill
Demotivational posters and rage comics were varied from get go and didn’t have a single viral hit sparking them.
Not really Richard Dawkins’ original definition of the term when he created it was on the lines of
A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.
One of the earliest internet memes was just to photoshop “All Your Base Is Belong To Us” on everything.
4chan used to be the internet meme factory where ideas were copied and mutated before they broke out to the wider internet to go viral.
I don’t speak french, but I know how annoying it is when people leave out diacritics and make other mistakes they could have avoided just using a minute to verify.
It has already been immortalised in the memechain
Damn, was in a too much of a hurry and forgot to add the text in the toot
Rise and shine, Mr. Freeman. Rise and shine. Not that I wish to imply you have been sleeping on the job. No one is more deserving of a rest. And all the effort in the world would have gone to waste until… well, let’s just say your hour has come again. The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world. So, wake up, Mr. Freeman. Wake up and smell the ashes.
Finland. Of course that is exaggerated and there are always some chronically late people, but being any kind of late without a notice is frowned upon. That’s why we get along with Germans way better than southern europeans.
So… It’s historically accurate? The “heart” symbol doesn’t really look like an actual heart and may have been modelled after a bum or a scrotum. Or the seed of a plant used as a contraceptive.