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My Meme Collection is a Disturbing Window into my Soul
But it also means that I love you
It’s weird to look back through my collection of jokes and memes from the last decade because they’re mixed in with touching pictures of my kids, family trips to the park, sunsets, and campfires.
I’ve been saving memes for years. Sometimes I make my own, but it’s hard to compete with the volume of hilarity already out there. People ask me why I save so many memes, and the only answer I have is that I’m saving them to make someone laugh. Except, I have no system. No organization. Kind of like the rest of my life, all my things are mixed in with all my other things, and will likely never be seen again.
Humans now communicate through text more than verbally. Life is constantly pulling us in 17 different directions. We don’t have time to convey all the emotions and inflections that would have previously been made visible through an in-person conversation.
Instead, we send a few words in a text. A great way to give the recipient some more context is using a visual aid like a picture, or in my case, a meme.
The original term “meme” was coined by Richard Dawkins in his work The Selfish Gene, way back in 1976. The term has evolved greatly since then, but at its root, a meme is an idea that can be…
