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[–] Philote@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 days ago

I did a college paper circa 2000 on what a meme was before memes became memes. Which rather ironically, the concept of a meme originally was an idea that spreads and becomes an actual thing through person to person social transference, like what the word meme means currently. It’s like describing the back to the future plot lines.