Okay, devils advocate, I have been medically diagnosed with ADHD and generalized anxiety, when I was in high school, EVERYONE was pretending to be mentally ill, it was the trendy thing for some reason. This still seems to be the case as I've gone back to school 13 years later
Okay yes but there's also a bit of dissonance, if I learned that Vlad the impaler had a time travel party to prove it and I had the capability to do so, I wouldn't give a shit, would go see him and also take a gun just to keep myself safe. Safe. But it's somebody from hundreds of years ago, why do I care about any of that?
Sure. This statement seems harsh but I'm playing devil's advocate here, the further you get away from the situation, the less it really matters
I would argue that yes, the first movie is fine art, it was literally genre defining and captured a large majority of youths minds when it was released
Just because its technically a "kids movie" doesn't make it not art
That "lazy misuse" is how you got your idea of what the word means in the first place. That's how language evolves, and why we say "goodbye" instead of "God be with you"
I mean, it is though. A meme is an idea that has been spread, and even if that wasn't the literal definition of it, people have modified the idea of what a meme was into what it is now. You are simply outnumbered and clinging to an outdated definition.
That's fantastic, fuck if I ever live near a place where "HOUSE CENTIPEDES" are a thing though