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Which community would that be? 4chan? Reddit? The rest of the internet that also regurgitates memes? You cannot 'engage with' the internet as a whole. No commu
by Confusion 15y ago
Which community would that be? 4chan? Reddit? The rest of the internet that also regurgitates memes?
You cannot 'engage with' the internet as a whole. No community owns a meme: it's the fact that so many people reproduce them that makes it a meme. The problem here is that some folks do feel they, or their community, own a meme. These people are the problem, not this guy with a place for a game. Or at least, he's another kind of problem.
- mquander 15y agoThe engaging with the community isn't so that you can make a petition that says, "Are you cool with my game [Y/N]" and have everyone on the Internet sign it. It's so that you can create something which demonstrates an awareness of the culture and doesn't come off as derivative and shallow to the people who deal in it daily and care to defend it. If he had made a post on Reddit or talked to anyone on 4chan and said "I want to make a meme-themed iOS game, help me make it not suck" and listened, he probably would have wound up making something that did not entice people to mock him and insult him. That's what I mean about engaging.