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The proper term is a 'HN meme'. I'm using "meme" in the original meaning: a viral idea.
by b0rsuk 6y ago
The proper term is a 'HN meme'. I'm using "meme" in the original meaning: a viral idea.
- _where 6y agomeat not meme.
- hunter2_ 6y agoI'm pretty sure the modern meaning of "meme" is fundamentally the same as the original meaning. The fact that lately there's a popular aesthetic (so popular as to have "generators" that ignore the possibility of other aesthetics) is separate in a way. A bit like how the word "album" was, for a time, heavily implicative of a vinyl record, but fundamentally it's any cohesive grouping of works.
- b0rsuk 6y agoI hope the meaning doesn't devolve the way `troll` did.
- nealabq 6y agoI think skocznymroczny is punning on the term "honey trap" with honey == HoNey == HN.
- skocznymroczny 6y agoNo. A honeypot would work though. This is an example of content that is bound to be shared often on HN. It's trying to be thought-provoking, is relatively old and doesn't require any previous reading or familiarity with a specific technology to be understood.