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Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

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The post can be a single image, an image gallery, or a link to a specific comic hosted on another site (the author's website, for instance).
The comic must be a complete story.
If it is an external link, it must be to a specific story, not to the root of the site.
You may post comics from others or your own.
If you are posting a comic of your own, a maximum of one per week is allowed (I know, your comics are great, but this rule helps avoid spam).
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Everett cares about fire safety [Outbursts of Everett True, 1914] (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I am absolutely loving these for showing someone in the early 1900s was making art about how absolutely shitty people were.

On the downside it is clear that society has learned nothing.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Not just art. They were making memes. Every strip has the same structure: Everett makes a statement of common decency, some random dude disagrees, then Everett physically assault the random dude. This is literally a meme template, from the early 1900s.

Question is: will the meme evolve in a similar fashion that we see modern memes evolve? Or does the fact that it has a single author prevent this natural evolution?