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A meme ( / miːm /; MEEM) [1] [2] [3] 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. [4] A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices, that can be transmitted from one mind to ...
An Internet meme, or simply meme ( / miːm /, MEEM ), is a cultural item (such as an idea, behaviour, or style) that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations. Characteristics of memes include their susceptibility to ...
288. ISBN. 0-19-286212-X. OCLC. 52855410. The Meme Machine is a popular science book by Susan Blackmore on the subject of memes. Blackmore attempts to constitute memetics as a science by discussing its empirical and analytic potential, as well as some important problems with memetics. The first half of the book tries to create greater clarity ...
Metameme. In the field of memetics, a metameme (or meta-meme) is defined as a meme about a meme. The very concept of memes themselves has been referred to as " the Metameme". [1] Ideological tolerance and the rhetorical device of metaphor clearly fit this framing. [1] Regarding the former, one may usefully expand:
Meme pool. A meme pool is the sum total of all memes (transmittable units of cultural ideas, practices, symbols) present in a given human population. [1] The term is analogous to gene pool. [2] The meme pool is in essence the matrix of the whole of the culture of a population. Because the memes of instruction of production of material culture ...
Bing Bang (Time to Dance) Bing Chilling. The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks. Blueface. Bodies (Drowning Pool song) Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff. Bongcloud Attack. Bongo Cat. Bonsai Kitten.
History. In 2016, the concept was revived in a 4chan post by an anonymous user who initiated the NPC meme, titled "Are you an NPC?", detailing the behaviour of individuals acting similarly to non-player characters in video games by repeatedly using phrases such as "JUST BE YOURSELF", and ended the post with the following description of people the NPC meme intends to depict.
Memes. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Memes and image macros. Pages in this category should be moved to subcategories where applicable. This category may require frequent maintenance to avoid becoming too large. It should directly contain very few, if any, pages and should mainly contain subcategories. This category contains articles on ...