: Re: Should I embrace or avoid memes(pictures) when blogging? I write on a fairly low traffic blog. One thing I've been seeing some of around the internet are blog posts which use meme pictures(example

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IMHO, this is a clever idea that has been beaten to death. Whoever first thought of it: genius. The 10 bazillion people who copied him: not so much. Like anything, I suppose if done well it can still be cute. But I definitely would not do it on the theory that an unoriginal idea can be made interesting by combining it with an unoriginal gimmick. I'm not saying your ideas are unoriginal. I don't know what your ideas are. I'm just saying that if they ARE unoriginal, you're not going to save them by use of a gimmick.

It's like those slogan that go around. Like, someone quoted Einstein as saying "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results." I don't know if Einstein really said that or not. Whoever first said it: good point. The first few people to quote it in a different context: clever. Now I hear it so often that anytime I hear someone say the first few words of it I want to scream before they're finished.

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