oh come on! it doesn't hurt smiling a little bit from time to time you know? :)

Unfortunately often the only person smiling is the author, while others just cringe.

Some people find them charming, and like a little chuckle with their articles.

maybe you could make a chrome extension which blocks all forms of fun and frivolity. you could just hide images from various meme sites, maybe do some checksum comparisons?

I don't have anything against fun things, but seeing the same memes we have all seen every day for years now is not really funny.

on one hand, I completely agree with you. on the other hand, i've had to make presentations and talks and the stuff just looks so dry and boring and people respond surprisingly well to old jokes. if you don't include any sort of lulz they just sit there thinking they're learning, but if you mix in a few memes, it helps wake them up and they start to pay attention.

I think a p-hash[1] would work better at detecting the same image... but what about a neural net that detects fun? That would probably be pretty enjoyable to write.

1: http://www.phash.org/