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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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False advertising (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/memes@sopuli.xyz

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[–] idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Actually that is the reason they always write it with multiple "i"-s. it gives you "wiiings" not "wings": https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-29550003 They had to pay $13 million for false advertising in 2014 https://startuptalky.com/red-bull-tagline-history/

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago

Reminds me of the time Pizza Hut took Papa John's to court over their slogan "Better ingredients, Better pizza, Papa John's." Papa John's' winning argument was that the slogan is in nature a boastful opinion, as almost all slogans are. They submitted to evidence a search of the US Trademark office's records of slogans in then-current use, and the only purely factual slogan they could find was Sony's "It's A Sony" slogan, which was only purely factual via tautology.