this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2026
664 points (94.9% liked)

memes

22875 readers
184 users here now

Community rules

1. Be civilNo trolling, bigotry or other insulting / annoying behaviour

2. No politicsThis is non-politics community. For political memes please go to !politicalmemes@lemmy.world

3. No recent repostsCheck for reposts when posting a meme, you can only repost after 1 month

4. No botsNo bots without the express approval of the mods or the admins

5. No Spam/Ads/AI SlopNo advertisements or spam. This is an instance rule and the only way to live. We also consider AI slop to be spam in this community and is subject to removal.

A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment

Sister communities

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
664
submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by blibla@slrpnk.net to c/memes@lemmy.world
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 182 points 4 days ago (1 children)

OR...and hear me out...she was in fact a serial killer with the perfect alibi?

[–] lawks@aussie.zone 83 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I'm listening, but there's a deafening sound of a little lady standing by a swab production line, occasionally giving in to her intrusive thoughts of randomly snatching a swab, licking it, feeling a tiny shiver up her spine, giggling briefly, and putting it back. Her heart fluttering each time she dreamt of her next lick.

[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 4 days ago

That's just to create noise in the pattern

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Her heart fluttering each time she dreamt of her next lick.

Wait. When did Lemmy turn into a romance novel?

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

When we finally got soap

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

🌍🧑‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

Where you been surewhynot the whole intranets a romance novel

[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's nothing to what Bert Thistlewaite does to them further down the line.

[–] BoosBeau@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

I enjoyed watching Bert until he started charging

[–] svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 43 points 3 days ago

The powers that be once again erasing women's achievements.

[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 79 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 4 days ago (2 children)

This is really just a c/funny/mildlyinteresting/TIL/meme/SoMescreendumps mashup community by now...it's total anarchy with no direction or moderation.

[–] CrimeIsLegalNow@ani.social 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Is that a statement, compliment or an insult? I'm not good with gen Z (or is it alpha?) lingo...

[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

"Based" is generally positive.

See Urban Dictionary.

[–] Hazel@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It's millennial lingo actually.

[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago

Well I'm almost 40 so just about as millennial as it gets, I've only ever heard it from people in their mid 20's

[–] hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

lil b would be rolling in his grave if he saw how people used it today

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] carrylex@lemmy.world 41 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Of course OP is too incompetent to post the link to the source, so here we go again:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_of_Heilbronn

[–] Krankenwagen@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

You can just post the source with calling them names... Incompetent seems pretty harsh for fucking social media lol. Cool off, touch grass, deep breaths.

[–] carrylex@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Well apparently people can always link the bluesky post or shitty ad infested news websites but never the original article/source. Which usually takes an additional 10s to find.

That's why I call them incompetent.

[–] ABCatMom@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

If it only takes 10s to find, why make such a big deal?

[–] carrylex@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Because a few hundred people have to do it and not just one person once.

[–] naticus@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

If this was c/til I would absolutely agree, but this is c/memes, so maybe slow your role.

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Because we should have high standards.

[–] blibla@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 days ago

uncalled for

[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

They posted a TIL in a memes community, soooo

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 56 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (7 children)

Please enlighten me as to how this counts in any way as a meme.

Edit: yes, except for, very specifically, the Dawkinsian sense, if one insists.

[–] okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days ago

It is a screenshot of text. Obviously that makes it the meme-est meme of all memes.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sure - a meme is a unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another, often propagating throughout a community and frequently subject to a form of cultural evolution.

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 4 points 3 days ago (10 children)

I know what Dawkins wrote but that definition is so all-encompassing to be unhelpful outside a specific area of discussion which is why in everyday parlance it's not used.

load more comments (10 replies)
[–] djdarren@piefed.social 13 points 4 days ago

The meme is that it's an anti-meme. Very, very meta. Peak shitposting.

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 days ago

Do not talk to me about Dawkinsian sense, I was there where it got Elevated. /meme

Doesn't matter if it's a Wikipedia screenshot, it's a Wikipedia screenshot documenting an ancient meme. Like how the pic above is a widely propagated meme about a video game scene that actually refers to Dawkinsian stuff. Geddit?

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

That woman knew how to cover her tracks. Fucking professional.

[–] x0x7@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The perfect alibi does not exist. /s

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 14 points 3 days ago

licks fingers you need to keep your fingers moist when packaging up these little swaps, wouldn't want them getting contaminated from a drop on the floor!

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 8 points 3 days ago

Not only a serial killer but also a cat burglar, pickpocket, arsonist and numerous other crimes. A regular Doktorin Mabuse.

[–] jagermo@feddit.org 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The story es even wilder. The swaps were used in the racist killings of the NSU, muddling that even more.

What a clusterfuck

I hadn't heard of those...

What a world we live in. Neo-Nazis actually roamed the streets in the Netherlands against during an extreme-right protest, last weekend...

[–] Stolas@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago

Would watch a documentary on this, assuming there is one.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

So 40 murder cases in 15 years with no resolution.

Also, there's sure to be a useless trivia community?

[–] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The resolution was that the DNA didn't belong to anyone involved in any of the crimes. It belonged to a woman who worked at the factory that made the contaminated swabs.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago

For real that's like Dexter Morgan's cover for why he has so many blood slides. Uhh I work in a forensics lab...duh.

[–] QueenHawlSera@piefed.social 3 points 4 days ago

She killed people without her face

The same reason I jizz in all the urine cups for drug tests at my job. There's no way the administration would fire all of us and leave the students high and dry, which is why I believe I've never been fired from my job as a middle school janitor despite my addiction to roofie-ing myself on a nightly basis, cuz I got my DNA all up in their urine, but really their urine was in my DNA. A fuck, I got my coat wet. The shit I do for my country.

load more comments
view more: next ›