Sure - a meme is a unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another, often propagating throughout a community and frequently subject to a form of cultural evolution.
I know what Dawkins wrote but that definition is so all-encompassing to be unhelpful outside a specific area of discussion which is why in everyday parlance it’s not used.
Do not talk to me about Dawkinsian sense, I was there where it got Elevated. /meme
Doesn’t matter if it’s a Wikipedia screenshot, it’s a Wikipedia screenshot documenting an ancient meme. Like how the pic above is a widely propagated meme about a video game scene that actually refers to Dawkinsian stuff. Geddit?
A meme is a joke told in the form of a funny picture on the internet. This screenshot from Wikipedia may not be a typical meme, but it does have the structure of a joke, including a punch line.
Please enlighten me as to how this counts in any way as a meme.
Edit: yes, except for, very specifically, the Dawkinsian sense, if one insists.
It is a screenshot of text. Obviously that makes it the meme-est meme of all memes.
The meme is that it’s an anti-meme. Very, very meta. Peak shitposting.
Sure - a meme is a unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another, often propagating throughout a community and frequently subject to a form of cultural evolution.
I know what Dawkins wrote but that definition is so all-encompassing to be unhelpful outside a specific area of discussion which is why in everyday parlance it’s not used.
If you don’t like the meaning of the word “meme”, you don’t need to use c/memes.
Perhaps the phantom itself was the meme by definition of those days, at the dawn of the Internet… (:
I was there, Gandalf, I was there 3000 years ago. It wasn’t a meme.
Do not talk to me about Dawkinsian sense, I was there where it got Elevated. /meme
Doesn’t matter if it’s a Wikipedia screenshot, it’s a Wikipedia screenshot documenting an ancient meme. Like how the pic above is a widely propagated meme about a video game scene that actually refers to Dawkinsian stuff. Geddit?
A meme is a joke told in the form of a funny picture on the internet. This screenshot from Wikipedia may not be a typical meme, but it does have the structure of a joke, including a punch line.
It’s a self replicating idea