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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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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 6 points 20 hours ago

I just pulled it from

54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level (20% are below 5th-grade level).

If we looped in science deniers, climage deniers, flat earthers and chemtrails it could go quite high, but that's a difficult task as many of those overlap in the <6th grade venn diagram.