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[–] Trex202@lemmy.world 66 points 2 months ago (3 children)

We typing out Shower Thoughts onto a black background and calling it memes now?

[–] Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 2 months ago

Text.txt 😕

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[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Anything containing words is a meme

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Technically anything that conveys an idea. (But actually the idea itself is the meme)

[–] iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is your definition/ meme criteria a meme too? Was my question a meme? Am I a meme?

[–] Justdaveisfine@midwest.social 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Your face is a meme! Literally.

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

When Conan’s ratings were scaring the affiliates, many attempts were made to get him to change the show. One of the last-chance attempts was when Conan was brought into Lorne Michael’s office and briskly told that it didn’t have to be good. It just had to get an audience. He refused, and was canned soon after.

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Commercials are the content. The shows are filler.

[–] Trex202@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Literally why Soap Operas exist. Breaks between soap commercials.

[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pretty much most children's cartoons were designed just to sell toys and other merchandise, and of course ads in between the show to get kids interested in pestering their parents into buying the advertised products. I tried watching a Chip and Dale episode on Disney + recently out of nostalgia, I used to love that show as a kid, but now I realized how simplistic and nonsensical the plot was, cause it's designed to be consumed by children and they ain't exactly media literate yet lol

[–] Benign@fedia.io 11 points 2 months ago

In Norway it is illegal to advertise to kids. I love that so much. Can we adult have that too?

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 6 points 2 months ago

Which is why my network TV free lifestyle is much more pleasant. Advertisements ruin everything good.

[–] Ugurcan@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

ITT people meeting capitalism. If something’s free, you are the product.

[–] rickdg@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

It's also how podcasts work for people who don't know what a RSS feed is. Or having chapter markers. Or no ad injection.

[–] underwire212@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

When deciding what to put on the air, they literally call the advertising “content” and the show that you’re watching “filler”.

[–] FrostbittenDuck@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

Having watched a bit of YouTube TV recently, it is impressive that even now, the streaming apps still have fewer ads than television.

[–] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

Just like Netflix who purposefully scrambles the start screen to get you to watch something else rather than your favourites. They want you to not realize you have already seen all the good stuff already and unsubscribe.

[–] BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago

Ad break? You mean Lemmy time :)

[–] Plesiohedron@lemmy.cafe 0 points 2 months ago

What's a "commercial break"? Arrrrrrr!