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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.


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[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Sussex, Essex, and Middlesex all have the sex word in them which makes 21st century people giggle

[–] Battle_Masker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] casmael@mander.xyz 4 points 1 week ago
[–] Pipster@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Made worse if you know the traditional divisions of Sussex that predate the Norman Conquest.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

sussex and other places like essex and middlesex have some suffix that signifies "town" or something, presumably in anglo-saxon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYNzqgU7na4

The name Essex originates in the Anglo-Saxon period of the Early Middle Ages and has its root in the Anglo-Saxon (Old English) name Ēastseaxe ('East Saxons'), the eastern kingdom of the Saxons who had come from the continent and settled in Britain.

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