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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.
An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.
- Wait at least 2 months before reposting
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Do you even look at what you repost? This is from a spam ad.
I do, but I don't get how this is an ad? There's no branding or websites or anything
It’s kind of an ad. More so a scam. Like on Reddit, bot accounts will post an image of a product such as a t-shirt, a coffee mug, various tchotchkes, etc., then they will post a scam link in the post description, in their user profile, or most often in the comments, especially after an unwitting real user or an associated bot account lauds the products in a comment. This is an example method of drop ship scamming. One thing to notice about the image in this post is that it doesn’t need to be on a t-shirt to be in an image post — the t-shirt is the “product”, if you were to even get a package delivered from the so-called store. The Threadiverse needs to wisen up to spam and scam methods or else it will become as bot infested as Reddit, which many people here left because of its bot infestation.
It's easy to make the argument that an image of the content, instead of on a t-shirt is equally as much a promotion for a product as neither comes with the possibility of purchasing them through the post. Or even worse, an image could be put on a jumper, a mug or even sent to a printshop to be made into a poster.
What if I made a t-shirt with your comment on it? Would that transform your reply into a scam? No.
A post like this is not guaranteed to be by a bad actor, but it is a major red flag and I suggest good actors avoid it or otherwise make their intentions expressly clear if they were to make posts like it. Typically, spam bot accounts would have new and/or barren profiles, or may have bot-like post and comment history such as LLM generated text or two-dimensional “personalities” and interests. I mentioned the choice of medium as something for users to think about as a loose heuristic for critically examining the content that they consume.