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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.
- Wait at least 2 months before reposting
- No explicitly political content (about political figures, political events, elections and so on), !politicalmemes@lemmy.ca can be better place for that
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- Odota ainakin 2 kuukautta ennen meemin postaamista uudelleen
- Ei selkeän poliittista sisältöä (poliitikoista, poliittisista tapahtumista, vaaleista jne) parempi paikka esim. !politicalmemes@lemmy.ca
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"Just one bad apple!" One bad apple spoils the entire barrel/bunch.
"Jack of all trades, master of none." Jack of all trades, master of none, oft times better than a master of one.
"Great minds think alike." Great minds think alike, but fools never differ.
"Blood is thicker than water" is actually "the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb"
No it isn't, someone on Tumblr just made that up
Some time ago I looked it up, because I feared the same. There's actually medieval examples of the full phrase.
There is a good writeup on the English Language stack exchange and on Wikipedia all of whose early sources are for the normal version or things like it https://english.stackexchange.com/a/508940
If you have a better citation, please share, but since they only find the Tumblr version from the 1990s I'm saying it's bollocks.
tumblr existed in the 90s?
No, but to me it's a stereotype of Tumblr users that they go fucking nuts for any of that kind of "counter-cultural secret knowledge" stuff even if it's straight up lies.
So I'm not saying "Tumblr version" to mean they invented it but to mean they love it and (helped) popularise it.