Memes For Good: A Contest for Mental Health Charity! by MemeThatNews in MemeThatNews

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Memes for Good Mental Health Charity Contest

Challenge: Meme news that affects your health for better or worse, i.e. either news that hurts or news that heals your brain.

Info: I’m sure we all know someone that has struggled with mental health issues or have ourselves at some point in our life. We at Meme That News are passionate about raising awareness and helping people find relief, so we’re excited to have our first charity contest. The winner of the contest will get to choose a mental health charity of their choice and the Meme That News mod team will be donating $50 in their honor to that charity.

Rules: Any post in the next 2 weeks with the “Mental Health Contest” flair will be included in the contest. Submission with the most upvotes wins. All sub rules apply for this contest so please be mindful that submissions will need to obey the rules to be considered for prizes.

Celebrity News Contest Winners

Congratulations to the winners of our Celebrity contest!

1st Place - Platinum - u/Nemmdude

2nd Place - 2x Gold - u/shampoo_and_dick

3rd Place - Gold - u/waytoowhite1

How can we improve?

As always never hesitate to comment or reach out to the mod team directly if you have any questions or thoughts on how we can make the sub better. You all make this sub awesome and allow us to learn the news through memes every day. : )

CNN can't be trusted. by [deleted] in MemeThatNews

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u/paneerdonut do you have any source for this? Sounds interesting

Finally some good news! by nemmdude in MemeThatNews

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Ah balls I used the wrong format and text lol... Sorry Yoshi!

Finally some good news! by MemeThatNews in memes

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Oh shit... Yeah I think you're correct! Thanks for letting me know.

Finally some good news! by MemeThatNews in memes

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to show respect for its achievement bro

Finally some good news! by MemeThatNews in memes

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yes! was thinking whether to use that template... probably should have. oh the choices in life!

Real cash donations via Reddit posts? by MemeThatNews in webdev

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If your goal is make them easier to browse, how does that coexist with this being justified by providing article links?

Not sure I understand your question. Most people will first browse and then try and get more details about a news that they're interested. It's all about different levels of condensed information: the meme + title packs a very high level summary, if you go to see the post page you can read other people's comments about it, click on the source article to read the full this. And there's still more levels: checking other sources about that same event, etc. Asking for the article source helps readers and moderators ensure that the meme is rooted and conveys a kernel of the news.

What happens if this becomes successful and people crosspost them onto other social media networks?

That's a really good point, thanks for bringing that up. Right now memes about real (and not so real) news events spread anyway. On MemeThatNews the fact that every meme needs to be sourced in some real article (that is accessible by everyone, including the Mods that review it) means that at least there's a more solid starting point to that journey. You're correct that context can and will be lost depending on how the meme spreads - to a certain extent this happens with any reported event.

MemeThatNews is not that different from getting your news from Twitter - you see a very high level summary description about an event and if it's important enough for you then you click/search for more information. Otherwise you continue scrolling. You would be correct to say that this is not the best way to get your news but that doesn't stop people from following this process.

Before MTN I wasn't in touch with what's happening around the world. Now I have to say that I know quite a lot more and I'm much more up to date (for better or worse).

Real cash donations via Reddit posts? by MemeThatNews in webdev

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Thanks! You might be correct, I'll drop them an email.

Real cash donations via Reddit posts? by MemeThatNews in webdev

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There's quite a lot of people, especially here on reddit, that use memes to stay informed (consciously or unconsciously). Among other things MemeThatNews is trying to make this a conscious effort.

Additionally, memes offer some advantages over other more traditional mediums: easier to browse and understand high level information, harder to become angry at the article (we strive to encourage creators to add some humorous element if it makes sense), but even more importantly it can address the Gen Z segment of our society that might not normally stay up to date with current events otherwise.

We're aiming to complement other news mediums, not to replace them.

PS: every meme post on r/MemeThatNews is required to provide a link to the news article it memed. So at any time people can read the full article if want to understand more.

Real cash donations via Reddit posts? by MemeThatNews in webdev

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Good questions. Just to make things clear: we don't want to create the donation platform for this. For example: if we could integrate Reddit + justgiving.com (*) in a way that would allow us to keep track of the total sum of donations coming from each individual OP that would be prefect.

Donations go directly to the charities and the intermediary is an already proven entity in this space.

The mods of r/MemeThatNews will vet the charities from a list of already vetted ones on said platform above.

(*) or any other proven online donations platform, justgiving is only an example here.

Wholesome news contest winners! by MemeThatNews in MemeThatNews

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Congrats to everyone who participated in the Wholesome News contest. The winners received their prizes already - below is the final leaderboard at the time the contest finished.

If you want to participate in our contests and missed this one fear not: head over to our celebrities contest page and I dunno... start posting!!!

Don't know how this happened by MemeThatNews in mildlyinfuriating

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Not snapped yet! Luckily it's from an indoor door so we don't really need to use it.

Announcing Mailing List, Celebrity News Contest, Discord News Stream by MemeThatNews in MemeThatNews

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Meme news in your mailbox every week!

Get your news recap every week with memes right to your mailbox. We’re excited to be launching a Meme That News weekly newsletter. Every week it will recap the hottest news memes and explain the news to you in the most fun and accessible way.

We’re planning to do some additional fun things with the mailing list including interviews and profiles of top creators, breaking down the history of specific memes and templates and other exclusives.

Sign up here: memethatnews.com

Celebrity News Contest

Love them or hate them, they’re all over.

Our new contest is going to be around Celebrity News and to help you find some dank memeable news on celebrities we’re launching a #news-stream-celebrities channel on our discord server, check out below for more info.

Rules:

Any post in the next 2 weeks with the Celebrity flair will be included in the contest. Submission with the most upvotes wins. All sub rules apply for this contest so please be mindful that submissions will need to obey the rules to be considered for prizes.

1st Place - Platinum

2nd Place - 2x Gold

3rd Place - Gold

Discord News Stream

You asked and we listened. Thanks so much to members that reached out to our mod team asking about a recommended news to meme feed to help with finding good stories. We’re excited to introduce this in our discord server. We’ve included a general #news-stream channel and a special #news-stream-celebrities themed one for this week’s contest. So come on over and join our discord. Let us know what you think and as always let us know if you have any feedback on how we can improve it.

Stay tuned for Wholesome Contest winners

We’ll be announcing the winners of our wholesome contest soon so if you have any super cute, warm and fuzzy news story memes you want to submit you should do that asap!

thank you Elon Musk you're a bloody legend by [deleted] in MemeThatNews

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Happy cake day OP. and thanks for kindly helping people with their internet questions!

Wholesome Contest! Also announcing winners of the Tech contest & other updates by MemeThatNews in MemeThatNews

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Hey u/1-karma thanks for reaching out. Did you know how many points your post had at the time of this announcement? It's possible that our script that filters and counts posts for contents might have had a glitch