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In a world that often feels divided, there’s one thing we can all agree on: memes make everything better. Whether you’re venting about work, sharing cute pet photos, or even debating serious politics, throw a meme into the mix, and suddenly the conversation gets a whole lot more interesting.

To add to your meme stash, we’ve put together some funny posts from the Instagram account ‘Neat Mom.’ Don’t let the name fool you—these aren’t just about parenting. This page has hilarious takes on all sorts of topics. Scroll down to check them out, and don’t forget to upvote your favorites!

The Instagram page ‘Neat Mom’ has a staggering 1.3 million followers and regularly shares funny images and videos that rack up tens or even hundreds of thousands of likes. It’s no wonder so many people love it—the content is genuinely hilarious. As I scrolled through their memes, I couldn’t hold back a chuckle either.

This got me thinking about why some things go viral. Why do certain memes spread like wildfire across all social platforms and even become part of our everyday conversations, while others just fall flat?

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2 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Begone Satan, Lord of darkness, for I have a corndog!"- "Looks delicious, can I have one?"

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The term ‘viral’ has become such a staple in internet language that we often forget it originally referred to the spread of viruses; now, it describes how quickly information can move online.

This idea isn’t entirely new; in 2009, during the ‘25 Things About Me’ trend, Lauren Ancel Meyers, a biology professor at the University of Texas, compared its popularity to the “classic exponential growth of an epidemic curve.” The Oxford English Dictionary first documented ‘viral’ in the context of spreading information back in 1989, with the phrase ‘go viral’ coming into use around 2004.

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When can something be considered viral? Is there a specific threshold, a sort of ‘magic number’? According to Fourthwall, there is. On Instagram, a post with 10,000 to 20,000 likes within the first 24 hours is often deemed viral, while reels generally need around 100,000 views. YouTube sets the bar higher—a video needs to reach at least a million views in a week. On TikTok, a quick 10,000 views in a few hours can rapidly turn into millions.

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Auntriarch
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Damn right! And if you need a couple of gargoyles, I can point you in the direction of my best friend's two elder sisters

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hey, I was a retired hairdresser from San Diego. Divorced with two kids. Of course, I was also eight years old and living in Illinois at the time...

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But coming back to the why—what’s the secret sauce that makes something go viral? While it’s tough to predict, certain common traits tend to make things popular. Marketing agency DataDab suggests that viral content resonates because people want to connect with others. When something is funny, interesting, or helpful, we’re likely to share it with friends, wanting them to be part of the experience. This is often how a meme or video starts making the rounds on the web, traveling from person to person.

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Lee Banks
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oddly, this is l the most validating and necessary I needed to hear. Thanks

P Peitsch
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep, same for the walking dead, breaking bad and so on ... I'm bored just listening to the talkings.

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Aiko_fell
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i never watched or read or did anything with game of thrones. still no idea what it is all about.

xolitaire
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I tried watching it, but the blatant "RAAAH we are a fantasy show for ADULTS, here have some sex, violence and decapitation YEAH" was too much

Don't listen to me
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No i never watched it. Because i read the books well some of them. They started well but I got lost in book 3 I think & gave up. So I never bothered with the tv version.

Marlowe Fitzpatrik
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This! I ad to wait for the next book coming out and when I got it I tried reading and I had to wade through soooooo much explanation-pages about who was who and where they are right at this point and I just... lost steam. I'm sure the series is better because I can see the faces and recognize them. But ... eh. Never cared enough.

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Shelli Aderman
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

🙋🏼‍♀️ Well, all that AND a class thing, because we don’t have HBO, because 💸

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝 I have Disney Plus. My parents have Netflix. Beyond that, Roku channel, Tubi, Pluto, normal crunchyroll, and anything else I can watch movies and stuff on for free. If you check at the beginning of each month, they’ve usually added new free stuff, sometimes even some newer stuff

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Diane H
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm the opposite, I don't understand people that don't want anything to do with pop culture or "water cooler talk" .

Philly Bob Squires
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

G.O.T., The Kardashians, Jersey Shore... never watched one damned episode. Not even a few minutes.

Blma1025
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That would be me, never even watched one episode or a part of any.

Teutonic Disaster
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2 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Me for years until, mainly out of boredom, I wanted to know what all the fuss was about, binged 1-7 and, already put off by most of 7, didn't even bother with 8, after the reviews came in. Definitely validated my aversion to hyped sh!t.

Kristal
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2 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, I know only about GoT through what I read about/saw on the internet while leisurely scrolling. So I can recognize an actor in costume from the show but no idea what their name or importance is lol

Libstak
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But, hear me out, what if it was because DRAGONS, I mean DRAGONS, come on.....

Plant Wizard
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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I read the first four books when they first came out. LONG before they even thought about making a series out of it. Got really bored by they end of book 4 and gave up. Never bothered since.

Ineke Pronk
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have watched maybe 3 minutes of game of thrones. I had spend most of the day playing skyrim, was feeling ill and toke a nap on the couch with a different series on for background noise. Woke up to game of thrones and spend a few minutes wondering how skyrim got so high-def and what General Tuillius and Ulfric Stormcloak where doing on a beach.

Theresa Walker
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

GoT is not the only show I've never watched and, for the record, there aren't many shows worth watching at all.

Cybele Spanjaard
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Um, I do/did not watch even the trailers.....switched to another channel or did other things like make coffee. I enjoy Fantasy but not a long series as I might be gone before the ..end. But I still record The Bold and The Beautiful for a friend who is unable to herself she comes here for a B&B feste...have for YEARS ..LOL

Heidi Sweetwater
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's only a matter of taste. Peer pressure never got me to watch a single episode of 90210. Or "Family Matters", or Walker Texas Ranger...the list goes on. But I have watched all 8 seasons of Game of Thrones 3 times including the original broadcasts. Some people don't read Stephen King. In both cases I feel sad for what they are missing out on. But, again. It's a matter of taste.

Rima Jabr
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am the type that if I spend 20 minutes and the the episode doesn’t grab me I turn it off. resisted for a year I actually tried to watch the first episode a few times and was bored by the nonstop snow 😂 took a random chat with a customer service person at my internet provider to convince me to stick with it past the first 20 minutes and it was amazing. So glad I actually listened.

Oddly Me
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Lol! I watched GOT, but not Breaking bad, Stranger things, or other highly popular, trendy, everyone is watching. I chose my poison.

Eunice Bentley
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I did read the books and felt no need to watch any of the shows. It also didn't hurt that I only have basic TV channels and none of them were showing it.

yellowphantom
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I REALLY don't like to watch seriously violent things so my son warned me off from ever watching it. In his late teens, I might come by his room while he was watching the Walking Dead and when a bad scene would come on, he would say Mom you need to leave, you don't want to see this.

Bill Marsano
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not only that, but I've never tasted 'pumpkin spice' ANYTHING.

Bill Marsano
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not only that but I've never tasted 'pumpkin-spice' ANYTHING.

Elizabeth
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thank you John...finally someone appreciates....that.....

StrangeTrout
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I watched it years after it came out because I was bored and they had it on DVD at the library with nothing else I wanted to watch.

zovjraar me
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I turned around and looked when the dragons came on. and sometimes listened to Peter Dinkledge cuz that voice is HOT.

Evelien Stijger Martens
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Agree Completely, still I fel for it, was to nosey. Nothing to do with peer pressure, I only have one person around me that watched it. I a way it can even be trupid not to watch something, just because everyone else does. Was my aitude for very long and looking backwards, I missed some good stuff. So I do what I want, even when it means doing something almost everyone else does. For that should not be the reason to do or don't

Udaya Vantongelen
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I kinda needed to hear this. I am happy I didn't waste my time on it.

Arenite
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I used to see the books on bookstore shelves, way back in the 90’s. I’m a big fantasy reader, so you’d think it would be an easy sell. It was clear to me, from the length of and number of books in this series, that this guy has NO IDEA HOW TO END A BOOK! Avoided him and anything touched by him, and yes that includes any of the shows. I feel so vindicated!

sturmwesen
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I tried 1-2 episodes... was annoyed... and then only watched the Momoa episodes😁

Casey Smith
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thank you, I feel seen. Same thing with Harry Potter. I can name three characters.

Sheeesh
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I didn't start watching until season 5 was finished. Being around my friends for years with them talking about it and me having no clue haha. Ended up being a good thing...got to binge 😌

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was getting all puffed up about myself and then remembered that I read the books and that was why I didn’t watch it. I’m funny like that, can’t watch a film after I’ve read the book, as it just pisses me off it’s not like the film I watched in my head. I still get angry about Ron from Harry Potter

Gozer LeGozerian
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I tried. I really did. I really wanted to. I just couldn't get thought the first episode.

Rayne OfSalt
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Everything I know about Game of Thrones I have learned without my consent.

Marnie
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Easy for me. I don't like fantasy. I don't like fictional politics. Same reason I was always disappointed by Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Simeon Nevel
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This one is easy... I wasn't gonna subscribe to HBO just to watch GoT

Stinky
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For me it was never an episode of the Kardashtwats or Sex in the City.....

SuperChicken
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For some reason, we couldn't get ourselves to watch or read the novel.

Rigor Moreno
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I enjoyed GOT but not gonna pressure my friends to watch it, suggest maybe. :D

Slapdash1
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But they are afrlfected by pressure: the pressure to tell EVERYBODY that they havent watched it

LynzCatastrophe
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This made me very happy to read. And no, I haven't watched Game of Thrones. Though to my credit, it's because I already have a show where my favourite characters get k!lled.

Robert Trebor
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thank you, Never saw an episode of Friends, either. Does that get me a laurel wreath?

Pyla
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's me, zero game of bad science and bad history

Snowy Ashton
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah I'm not into (inappropriate naked people material) especially that of the (unwilling participant) variety.

Cindy Brick
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Whoo hoo -- that's me! (I get grossed out by matter-of-fact "bend over" sex scenes and weird incest rituals. Ewwww.)

Glenn Cuneo
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Game of thrones? what dat? I've never watching anything to do with the show--- is this the one With Meridth Grey?

Lily Robertson
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'd read the books already. I decided i might watch it, but first i'd wait for the watchers to start wailing in indignation and fury. Much more entertaining than most of the show.

Oerff On Tour
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Been to the Dark Hedges last week. Never seen GOT. Still loved it

Riley Quinn
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've never watched an episode, but I did see clips of Leslie Jones and Seth Meyers watching it. The dragons appealed to me, but the time period did not.

Mark Fuller
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I tried. I really tried. I think I forced myself to endure 6 episodes and then gave up.

Sara
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thank you! Just not my thing, but people actually said I was only avoiding it out of some kind of "I don't want tv" snobbery but I'm literally not smart enough to follow fantasy!

Miki
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My SO asked me very nicely to watch last season with her ;( ;( I am weak.

JessieJ&LilyLovebug
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2 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That would be me! My mother has always said I am the most stubborn person on Earth. 🤣

Id row
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I didn't start it until season 6. I was tired of hearing about it and soured on it before I even watched it.

Justanotherpanda
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Didn’t watch it. And I even work for the company that aired it in my country.

Tiffany Buchner
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I finally caved when my boyfriend's internet went out like, 6 months ago. I saw 1-1/2 episodes, I think.

InfiniteZeek
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yo!!! That's me. I did start to watch it with my wife 2 days ago though.

Dave Nalesnik
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But they only get 100% credit if they made the decision before the finale came out

Aleksandras Tvardauskas
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am not sure who is more stoic. Someone who has never watched it or someone who loved it and made it through the last season...

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BookFanatic
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I read the first book and nearly went into a coma of boredom. Couldn't be bothered to finish the series in any format.

SolitaryIntrovert
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I didn't even see one minute of it. Maybe it was because I couldn't afford HBO. 🤔🤔🤔🤔

MagicJacket
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not impressed, because GOT was a quality show up until the end. A GREAT show at times. Not watching it just to be able to say you never did, when it was VERY good, that does nothing for me. Now, you tell me you have never seen the Kardashians or any Real Housewives type shows, or (back in the day) Knots Landing, Falcon Crest, Dynasty or Dallas, then you have earned my respect.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a member of Gen X, I've always considered it to be one of my greatest personal accomplishments that I've never seen a single John Hughes movie--not even the I e with Kelly LeBrock in her underwear.

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Jen&Tonic
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Good. That way they have to be disappointed by that terrible last season!

Jeanne
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I didn’t watch it, but I highly recommend on hbo, Barry, the white lotus and Sharp Objects everyone!

David
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or they just were not into medieval fantasy stories. Some folks watch romantic comedies and some folks watch John Wick get revenge for his dog. I watched the first 4 or so seasons of GoT. Delayed due to waiting on local library to have the DVDs. Everyone raised such a stink about the last season and ending I just never went back. I chose to remember it as something I liked.

ColdSteelRonin
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Haven't seen the show but thought the South Park parody was pretty good.

Erenndis
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I kinda wanted to watch it because Sean Bean was in it. Watched a trailer and noped out.

TotallyNOTAFox
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And people that just watched it out of boredom and not because everybody talking about it?

Giles McArdell
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have never watched any G.O.T. but I don't claim it as an accolade as I know a guy (tv watcher) who has never seen a single Simpsons episode!

Sunny Day
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was going to say "not even Jason Momoa could pressure me to watch it", but then I thought about it for 20-30 minutes, and I'll admit that, by applying some specific pressure, Jason Momoa could indeed get me to watch GoT.

Aleksandras Tvardauskas
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2 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nope. The OP gives huge respect only to those who haven't watched a single episode. With 5 minutes in you are tinted and don't deserve the honor./s I am willing to give you my huge respect regardless. Here. Now you are hugely respected by me :)

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Grenelda Thurber
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I watched the first 2-3 seasons late, but I had a margarita during the first couple of episodes. I ended up making a graph with all the families and where they were from, with line connecting people who had married each other, killed or betrayed each other, had children within and without wedlock together, and a few other things I'm probably forgetting. I decided a show with a plot so complicated that I can't have a margarita while I watch isn't worth the effort.

Nadine Debard
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had really no interest on it, then after 3 seasons my husband brought it at home (DVD, 3 seasons). After the first episode I was like 'this is disgusting I'm done' and he insisted on seeing more. After a while I just wanted to know who would survive, it was even interesting sometimes. Then season 7 and 8 occurred and I was like 'meh, I really lost my time'. I don't even want to see House of the Dragons.

Darfanme
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In addition to never seeing more than 2 minutes total of GoT, I've also never seen even a single minute of any Star Wars movie.

Michael Largey
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I prepared myself to do this 25 years ago by cancelling HBO. Just call me Nostradamus.

Victoria
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I haven't seen Sopranos or Breaking Bad either. That's mostly because I'm PO and don't have any subscriptions. I did get all the seasons of The Wire from the library and watched that. Best TV I've ever seen.

Cathleen Cummings
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Did not watch a single episode. My husband still shakes his head in wonder.

Sky Render
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Was that the show with Peter Dinklage as a main character? I honestly don't know anything about it. I mostly associate him with Trask from that one X-Men movie.

Christopher Hebhardt
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Look... How else can we finish the series? George still hasn't released the final book and I want closure!!!

Nosirrow
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was too busy watching fun shows to care about some incest murder dragon show.

Whoopdeedoo
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I haven't watched it yet because according to my mom I'm too young lol

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According to DataDab, the two main ingredients for contagious content are humor and shock value. “We humans are drawn to things that make us laugh, and we love to be surprised by things we never expected,” they say. The stronger the emotional reaction, the faster it spreads. Interestingly, the emotion doesn’t always have to be positive—anger, in fact, is the most viral emotion on the internet.

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Memes are also incredibly shareable because they can adapt to different contexts. They often reference other memes or situations, evolving with each iteration. If you’re like me, you might be called “chronically online” for catching all these references.

This works because our brains are wired to recognize patterns, a survival instinct from when spotting a predator was key. Nowadays, this instinct helps us recognize familiar themes in memes.

“If you’re familiar with an internet meme and someone shows you an image or video based on that meme for the first time, it probably won’t take long before your brain starts supplying context for what might be happening in the new piece of media—even if that context isn’t explicitly provided by whoever created it,” says DataDab.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We give the little finger in my family, instead of the middle. It means "dumb kid". Because we were 4 kids and had lots of friends, it has now spread to people that is not related, an I have seen it done by a few complete stranger. When my cousin inrolled to learn sign language, her teachers were so amazed and amused that it is now up for consideration to be included in the official norwegian sign language cyllabus

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Timing is also crucial in meme virality. “The biggest news stories will also often be the biggest creators of memes,” says Don Caldwell, meme expert and Editor-in-Chief of Know Your Meme. For example, if the Olympics are taking place, your feed will likely be flooded with Olympic memes. Or if there’s rising tension between countries, you’ll suddenly see X (formerly Twitter) buzzing with memes about WW3.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If She Said you need a milkshake,is because you needed One . For sure She have been there already.

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Sometimes, memes don’t reach global fame but instead find huge popularity within specific communities or niche audiences. They use a unique language that makes perfect sense to those familiar with the topic but can leave outsiders puzzled.

Caldwell says memes are like animals thriving in their natural habitats: “If you’re in an African Savannah, a lion does really well in that environment, but a lion wouldn’t do very well in the Arctic.”

“The reason I’m using that analogy is that we can think of the African Savannah as Reddit, or something like that. Certain types of memes will do well on Reddit because they suit that environment and they’re able to replicate and spread virally there.”

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was really curious where this was going, until we were back on familiar terratory 😂

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Mary Rice, a Literacy Associate Professor at the College of Education & Human Sciences who advocates for using memes in teaching to engage students, notes that understanding meme culture often requires the right context.

“Memes just sort of emerge from the ether. You have to really get into the meme itself and try to figure out how to make sense of it in your own cultural context and your own psyche,” she says. “It used to be easy when I was younger because like the flow of information would come to me in the same streams that it would come to students. Now I have to be much more proactive.”

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Had a sign up for 3 days in reno. Was just decompressing. Hotel staff sent someone up to indeed confirm that everything was fine. Me: eating room service fried chicken in hotel room jacuzzi

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But there always comes a point when a meme’s popularity hits its peak. Like any trend, it eventually fades or loses its charm because it’s been everywhere, and people move on to the next big thing. Don Caldwell describes this phenomenon in terms of a ‘meme economy.’

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“It’s kind of like their memes and inside jokes had a certain value as a cultural currency and if too many people were in on it, it would crash its value. Kind of like inflation: if there’s too many dollars circulating, the value of the dollar goes down.”

So, memes will continue to rise and fall. We’re just wrapping up the era of ‘Brat Summer’ and currently riding the wave of ‘very demure, very mindful.’ Who knows what’s coming around the corner? One thing’s for sure—we can’t wait to see it!

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When he decided he just wanted comfort, but couldn't run a school in pajamas

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2 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mind is already folding up my jacket to use as a pillow. The last time we came back from Chicago we had a whole middle aisle to ourselves. I mean, one middle aisle each...

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My father would tell us he was picking us up from school, and then completely forget about it. Thats how i learned kids are waterproof even when clothes are not. And how to make temperary shelter out of backpack and wall. Somehow he would be confused when he finally showed up, and angry if we took the school bus, like we normally would.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Mr Auntriarch once decided he needed to take three kilts on a week's holiday. Have you any idea how much those puppies weigh? He narrowed it down to two and wore one of them on the flight. And don't get me started on shoes.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, they always called me "weird", so I would have been glad to be referred to as an old soul :P

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sometimes cats. And post them a present you bought for a fiver in a charity shop which costs £23 in postage, because it will hit the spot. Okay that might be just me

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm an old guy - that flex is why I carry a swordstick instead of a cane, pass me at your own risk....j/k (just in case)

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You have a point there. My father said if there is reincarnation, he wants to come back as my greyhound. So, sleeping, getting fed, more sleeping, farting, how will I know the difference?

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My brother about five or six once caught not one but two pigeons with his hands. We still don't know how. We have a photo of him holding two pigeons

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That is because pretty much all Victorian Wallpaper used arsenic as a dye. The head of one of the biggest wallpaper companies, William Morris, stopped using arsenic in his wallpaper not due to evidence that arsenic was bad (there were reports of factory workers dying from working with arsenic), but because public pressure got to be bad enough.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you have seen enough asylum productions you know you have to be a 30 year old blonde woman or a 40 year old man with 3day shadow... if you don't match you can't be one.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh, the drama (from me too) when the bank took down the sign along the State Hwy that displayed time/temp in the early 00's.

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2 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ah, that may have been me. Only joking, I take mine neat. I mean without milk. Obviously.

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My little neice presented my sister with a small sandwich bag full of teeth and asked her if she could put them all under her pillow at once and get £20. Turned out she'd set up a racket in school where she'd give kids her dessert in exchange for their lost teeth. Kid's going places. Scary, scary places.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well I suck so much at most video games that I've always enjoyed watching good players in action much more than play myself and fail miserably and rage quit.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How long did you have to sit in front of your place to hear the end of the conversation?

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Don't feel bad a security guard once asked my daughter if she was my mother

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And of course the common theme among all of them...alcohol may have been involved.

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I did that at my 60th birthday party. It was wonderful. Started with My Boy Lollipop, ended with Chasing Cars. Probably at a wedding you should alternate with the other half though...

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"How do you tell when Spagetti-o's are done?" or "How do you tell when a hot dog is done?"..."Are they hot?...they're done". Real phone call we received by our daughter during babysitting

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God I hate the influx of "natural deodorants". Everyone out here smelling like àss that's been dipped in a hot Yankee candle.

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Dammit yes. If you have a tiny tiddly car smaller than some of my earrings, at least have the decency to park it level with the front of the bay, not the back.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nice. I am almost mid-30s. I might try this out. I will tell you how it goes later.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If men were the ones getting pregnant he wouldn't ask this question. Think two for the price of one, my dude.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Moopes clearly has never had a "fruity little drink" because those pack a punch that leaves whiskey in the dust

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2 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

summer in France sometimes, I go to work in the morning, it’s 16°, I come back in the evening, it’s 32°. How am I supposed to dress !!??!! Edit to "layers" answer : have you ever had to take public transport with "layers" full in your arms or bag? :)

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Your village would take care of you tho, because you would add something they need and visa versa

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If Valerie didn't notice the difference after the first little sip the problem is not the person who put the vodka in a water bottle

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And then we’ll find out that mummy and daddy purchased it for them.

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