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minus-squareAeronMelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1年前That’s what the word “meme” used to mean, a running gag where the same punchline or content was reused in different ways.
minus-squareprettybunnys@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21年前Pretty sure meme has always meant the concept of “a concept that is understood visually and spreads that way” and has been modified colloquially online to mean what we see it now. To that end memes changed the meme of meme.
minus-squareSkullgrid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1年前Not necessarily visual, the great edgelord used meme to mean “cultural behaviour passed through information” , and he used it to shit on religion. I’m not joking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Selfish_Gene https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_God_Delusion#Religion_and_morality
The memes are reproducing
That’s what the word “meme” used to mean, a running gag where the same punchline or content was reused in different ways.
And then they had sex
In different ways.
Pretty sure meme has always meant the concept of “a concept that is understood visually and spreads that way” and has been modified colloquially online to mean what we see it now.
To that end memes changed the meme of meme.
Not necessarily visual, the great edgelord used meme to mean “cultural behaviour passed through information” , and he used it to shit on religion.
I’m not joking.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Selfish_Gene
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_God_Delusion#Religion_and_morality