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Are memes better at the news than the news itself? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 23 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was thinking about this for sometime and some might wonder why someone might think that memes are better at delivering the news so I set up this comaprasion between the memes and the news.

What the news does.

a. Generally it tells you what's happening: b. encourages you follow a narrow #political "side" c. Might make you short sided, and falling behind with the community and society trends at large. You'l likely not be the most social person because you'll be angry with people more often then if you just consumed memes instead from different perspectives, d. news clips, videos, #podcasts, #newpaper articles, can take from minutes to hours just to began to scratch what is happening, and what the news agencies takes are.

memes

a. memes tell you what's happening, it gives you an insight to #culture and #society trends in different perspectives, b. Memes don't ask you to pick any side in itself, but they might encourages you to follow memes related to #topics you are interested in. Or #advocacy #movements you stand for. c. Memes are quick to consume and give you so much information in seconds to minutes when #scrolling through memes in a #socialmedia feed

This is such an interesting perspective on memes want to hear comments from anyone on their thoughts on this.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

meme's are more consumable because of their brevity and their humor and i wonder whether or not they're more proned to manipulation given that longer forms of media DEFINITELY are given that they require much more capital to create.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

good point. However the news is also proned to manipulation. Going into anything you should know that there could be some amount of manipulation. Which is why it might be beneficial to follow more meme sources.