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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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[–] gratux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 39 points 2 months ago
[–] 4am@lemm.ee 30 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Does the real Thomas actually even count as stop motion? I don’t recall a single frame-by-frame in that entire show.

[–] atocci@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It was more like a narration over a model train set

[–] f314@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Narration by Ringo Starr, no less!

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Which sounds like the most random narration by a celebrity, until you realize that Leonard Nemoy did narration for a video game where you use a microphone to talk to a fish.

No, I'm not making a joke. That's real. That happened.

[–] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 1 month ago

Buy another Dreamcast.

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's live-action with model trains on sets, with narration over it. No stop-motion involved.

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 months ago

1946 is also acceptable

pic from the original book

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The 1 on the animated one is backwards because they were too lazy to redraw it for the other side. They just flipped the sprite.

[–] Lightfire228@pawb.social 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's possible whoever made the meme just flipped a screen cap, so all 3 Thomas's would be facing the same direction

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago

Good point. I'll still fault the cartoon for not having good pictures of their character online. A smart TV producer makes it easy for people to meme their show.

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

That first Thomas is what's unsettling.

[–] androogee@midwest.social 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

You weren't kidding...

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 8 points 2 months ago

Only Ringo narration

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Unsettling stop motipn? May I introduce to you, The Adventures of Gumby, from the 1970s.

Show is like nightmare fuel if you take everything at face value.

[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago
[–] s12@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

Bottom looks least unsettling.

[–] bigboig@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

Ever see worthikid's captain yajima? I wonder if that digital stop motion style would work for a thomas series