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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.


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[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 67 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

Sponsor Block is one of the essential YouTube plugins. Thanks to that I don't know half of these companies.

[–] atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 minute ago

another option is to exclusively watch small youtube channels

[–] biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 17 hours ago

I love sponsor block, it works pretty much flawlessly apart from when YouTube recommends me a video from literally 30 seconds ago, which is surprisingly often that I can now count it on 2 hands as of the last time I got a scarily new video on my feed,

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 16 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

And Dearrow by the same creator.

[–] joelfromaus@aussie.zone 1 points 6 hours ago

It’s funny that DeArrow has lead to me watching more videos with super click bait titles. It’s almost as if actually using the content for the title instead of some vague notion or off content question is more likely to pick a video to watch.

I know there’s a reason channels do it but this is just my experience.

[–] Paddzr@lemmy.world 7 points 18 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Mac@mander.xyz 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

It changes titles and thumbnails to remove clickbait. Seeing the youtube homepage without it is genuinely jarring--everyone is clawing at your attention. "Pick me, pick me!"

There are different options but i have it set so the thumbnail is a random frame from the video. I think titles are 'normalized' and sometimes community generated.

[–] sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works 10 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

It replaces the thumbnail with a more representative frame from the video (voted by users). The 'arrow' was in reference to a trend where people would put a big red arrow pointed at some shit as clickbait. This is meant to stop clickbait

[–] Paddzr@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

Thanks, downloaded and bought it. Happy to pay for good software.