(It’s so I can reply quickly with them, but this is the only one I have saved.)
InnerScientist 9 points 11 days ago
I try not to
binarytobis 5 points 11 days ago
Every time I can’t find an old internet thing lament not having a meme folder. 😭 Who knew the internet would just forget about stuff.
FinjaminPoach 22 points 11 days ago
I suppose its the same speed but in my case it felt less awkward to fetch ^ image above than to search "meme where a black guy is facing the viewer and pointing to his car radio in a car"
And in anon's case its way more efficient then googling "naked gigachad image, black and white, bearded short hair big pecs" and hoping the right one will come up.
So I suppose it's a specificity problem
coolie4 10 points 11 days ago
I dont archive memes but I think its 2-part
- They can't google 4chan OC because it disappears before it can be indexed
- Its not just about finding an image, but also about finding an image with the right caption, so they dont have to caption it themselves, because work
Unique_Emerald_Sol_I 13 points 11 days ago
As a minor language nerd, I would like to posit a 2.5, if you will: memery as a dialect and individual memes as bespoke words.
Like, consider this sequence of emoji: 🌍 🧑🚀 🔫 🧑🚀
Chances are, you're familiar enough with memes that you can infer the meaning of an English sentence which has nothing to do with the actual representational meaning of those emoji independently. By placing them in this specific context, I have communicated a meaning beyond their intended representation.
By a similar token, different specific memes under the same genre (e.g. Gigachad) may be equated with synonyms, and different contexts may call for different "words" (i.e. individual memes).
I pray Lord Apollo is kind enough to me for that to make sense because Hypnos is buzzing 'round my head and it's getting hard to think
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 3 points 11 days ago
yeah, i used to from bookmark articles and recipes on the internet i want to use in the future. Now I transcribe them into my personal database of useful text files. which is backed up five to six places right now (internet, computers, phones, plus paper copies of all the recipes) so i shouldn't have to worry about losing shit.
should(n't) is one of my least favorite words tho
jaycifer 6 points 11 days ago
It’s not always easy to find the exact meme I have in mind, there have been a couple times that I gave up on internet searching for one because it just wasn’t showing up. I also prefer scrolling through a bunch of memes that I’ve already vetted as good rather than the sea of meme trash the internet holds.
Ironrod 1 point 11 days ago
I was looking for the old "You may be cool, but you'll never be 5 popped collars cool" meme a few days ago and the only images I could find were thumbnails. I miss the old demotivational format
DespairSquid 4 points 11 days ago
I don’t remember the 5 one but I remember this one:
Gutek8134 8 points 11 days ago
On the phone I usually save and upload them to share with people, but not deleting them afterwards leaves me with a collection of memes I like, that I can browse every few months-years and look at how things have changed
idunnololz 8 points 11 days ago
Can't be me /s
idunnololz 3 points 11 days ago
I don't want to expose my server to potentially millions of people :D
9point6 6 points 11 days ago
I feel like it's a form of brain training to be able to remember the right sequence of words to search to summon a niche meme
Meme folders are the junk food of internet society
Everyone is about instant gratification smdh
UltraGiGaGigantic 2 points 11 days ago
Templates, reaction images, archives to access when the relevant opportunity arises.
Hideakikarate 2 points 11 days ago
I do know one person who has a litany of Psych memes ready for nearly any situation.
Neverclear 1 point 10 days ago
...for posterior's sake.
daggermoon 1 point 11 days ago
Yes.
Diplomjodler3 35 points 11 days ago
Not gay, as long as the folder is called "no homo".
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 4 points 11 days ago
don't forget smiles
rockerface 14 points 11 days ago
Undefined and bi
TubularTittyFrog 7 points 11 days ago
sometimes being gay is just gay
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 1 point 11 days ago
what, you're homosexual?
psycho_driver 24 points 11 days ago
Show her your folder of incest porn to prove you're not gay anon.
UltraGiGaGigantic 2 points 11 days ago
Step 1: cultivate mass
avidamoeba 15 points 11 days ago
What's a gigachad folder?
half_built_pyramids 7 points 11 days ago
Mooo000mmmm, your embarsseeng meeee, they r dank mememes
NigelFrobisher 14 points 11 days ago
“thank goodness! your father and I were so worried you were one of those incels!”
WanderWisley 12 points 11 days ago
Is anon Claviculer?
lessthanluigi 4 points 11 days ago
Yes.
cantstopthesignal 9 points 11 days ago
I'm jerking off to the idea of being them, not to their perfectly chiseled faces and washboard abs.
FinjaminPoach 3 points 11 days ago
The thing about moms is that they will ask if you are gay over the smallest most trivial things. In many cases it seems like they want you to be gay.
I imagine a reason for this is that women think maintaining and forming relationships with women is easy so if their own child fails to do so, their only conclusion is "he must lack the incentive to do so"
But anon literally has muscular nude men on his computer. In a dedicated folder.
Edit: oh dear, you never know which comments people are going to take super seriously/get offended about
idiomaddict 7 points 11 days ago
The thing about moms is that they will ask if you are gay over the smallest most trivial things. In many cases it seems like they want you to be gay.
I think this might be a generational difference in showing acceptance. My dad asked me if I was a lesbian all the time, because he wanted to reassure me that he still loved me if so. I found it very annoying when I was in middle/high school, but in my case it was basically harmless, so whatever. Hopefully your mom’s just doing the same :)
TubularTittyFrog 5 points 11 days ago
Not in my experience. women my own age and a generation younger than me ask me if I'm gay regularly, or assume I am gay.
because of stupid shit like that I drink tea, read books, cook, clean, have a cat, don't drive a pickup truck, etc. these things are all 'feminine' coded, and if you engage in them as a man you must be effeminate and therefore gay.
a lot of people have a really bizarrely narrow conception of what a heterosexual man must be and any deviation from that image makes them instantly assume you're partially homosexual.
cantstopthesignal 2 points 11 days ago path: 0 26104411 26105288 26110405 26116821, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 0
UltraGiGaGigantic 2 points 11 days ago
The manliest man I've ever met topped me throughout the night.
Honytawk 1 point 10 days ago
There is nothing as manly as gay sex.
Because it is literally impossible to do it as a woman.
(And I don't mean gay as a blanket term for any sex between same sex people)
BlackLaZoR 1 point 11 days ago
My friends mom found a thermal paste siringe in the sink. Good times.
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This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.
Be warned:
- Anon is often crazy.
- Anon is often depressed.
- Anon frequently shares thoughts that are immature, offensive, or incomprehensible.
If you find yourself getting angry (or god forbid, agreeing) with something Anon has said, you might be doing it wrong.
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