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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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[–] daltotron@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. Strikes me as the laziest possible explanation for a thing, and it always seems to ironically come from people who are convinced that they're better than others because they're working harder or trying more.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 1 points 8 months ago

The least compassionate people I know are the ones fastest to write off the humanity of others.

I swear, without irony, that if a young black man got shot in the face for parking next to a yellow curb, some of the people I’m thinking of would say “welp, shouldn’t have broke the law!”