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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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[–] Tuuktuuk@kbin.melroy.org -5 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Is any microblog post automatically a meme?

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 days ago

They prefer m'ICE

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

don't make us meme you mofo!

dude come on, Freud's bullshit is so ingrained in our culture, riffing of it is a meme

they communicated something about our collective knowledge in a picture, it's funny too

[–] Tuuktuuk@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 2 days ago

That's a good reply!

Yeah,

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet,

So: True, a meme does not need to be a recaptioned image that alters it meaning.
In any case that up there a nice text snippet, yeah :)

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Got a real m'eme hot off the presses for you!

[–] Tuuktuuk@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 2 days ago

That was kinda cool! Thanks :)

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

At least this one tried to make a joke. I've seen a lot of dead serious posts in meme comms, especially ones like "microblog memes", even some in comms with "shitpost" in the name.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

If you believe hard enough.