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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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I'm not sure they will (reddthat.com)

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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices, that can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena with a mimicked theme.

Memes carry a lot of meta data that is unspoken, a single meme can be worth a thousand words

[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 0 points 2 days ago

Memes carry a lot of meta data that is unspoken

That's probably another reason why meme threads are so popular, media can carry a lot of data about you that text doesn't