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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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[–] LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

That's bizarre to me.

edit: you just unlocked a memory of my mum bollocking me as a kid for doing it. It's so bizarre why?

[–] TeddE@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Too many people see life as a zero-sum game with a one-dimensional ranking. To them, success is defined as the number of people of people you're better than. Worse, many people go by pass/fail,as in "they're one of the good ones" (popular with bigots everywhere)