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Can you read the ancient glyphs (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 months ago (3 children)

There's gonna be that one academic weirdo in 1000 years who's focus is "Memes and Internet History of the 21st Century".

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

I'd bet money there are already ~~thesises(??)~~ theses (thanks, atomicorange!) and dissertations on this.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There's def already stuff like interpreting use of emojis. For example sometimes you have text messages show up in a court case and there are people who can officially "interpret" what the emojis mean for the court.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

At least some portion of that have to be grifters

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

An accurate statement to append to literally all human effort.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

There's literally a saying to pretend until you succeed

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Theses is the plural of thesis. Kinda looks stupid out of context but there you go.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

And the Ship of Theses is when you rewrite the seven parts of your dissertation so many times that you're not sure if it's even your original intent anymore

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

A friend of mine wrote a dissertation on surreal memes a few years ago.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Oh, I'm sure there are plenty at the moment. It will just fade over time until it enters the same realm as something like "Clay Pots of Ancient Sites Found in The London Underground".

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Once I used a video meme to explain source studies and intertextuality to my students

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

With the proliferation of memes, that's probably going to be its own branch of academic study.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So one of my great-great-great grandkids might be able to get a PhD in Memeology?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

You can get that right now.

Memes didn’t start because of the internet. They’ve been around for a long time.