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      I think that OP’s sentiment is more against gatekeeping what a meme is. Like if this is a meme, than political cartoons are too

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          Well, defining words narrowly is pretty much the definition of gatekeeping. I hope you’re not gatekeeping what gatekeeping means?

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            You aren’t a real gatekeeper if you haven’t gatekept gatekeeping before

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              But who decides what the proper definition is? Your proper definition is for me a narrow if it doesn’t take into account the common usage. The definition of meme is widening. Cope with it.

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                I’m perfectly happy to give orthographic dominion to Webster. They can be our Academie Francaise. They can control the definition drift. And the pedants can use their educational privilege to suppress the poors. As it should be.

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                  As it has always been. As God himself intended it as we see in the story of the tower of babel

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              Correct

              So basically what I’m saying is that there’s a lot of people gatekeeping what a meme is without understanding what a meme is

              Or if they’re referring to the first of the definitions in the screenshot I shared, not understanding that different people can find things humorous

              The biggest meme of all is our spoken languages

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            I didn’t say they weren’t. I just reject the notion that proper definitions aren’t gatekeeping. I’m not joining the above argument. I understand the definition is based on usage and the usage has changed. Most humans are morons and don’t know how to use words properly so they let language change over time.