• balderdashOP
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    4 months ago

    Sometimes it’s just polite to listen even if you aren’t interested in the subject. Why does Lemmy take memes (even about mundane topics) so seriously?

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      4 months ago

      There’s a difference between kind of internally not being interested, which is totally fine, and going online to mock “friends” as you pretend to care. I’m willing to admit I am probably taking it a little too seriously, but I feel like the more we explain this meme the worse it sounds, and that should say something. The format also contributes to a pretty patronizing tone.

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        4 months ago

        The format also contributes to a pretty patronizing tone.

        Fair enough. It’s hard to anticipate how people will take it because the creator is blinded by whatever tone they originally envisioned. In this case I suppose it doesn’t come across as light-hearted as I intended.