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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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[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Or is it the large companies' and the capitalist system's fault for not focusing on general wellbeing, instead looking at profit for everything, even if that means pollution?

[–] Hond@piefed.social 17 points 20 hours ago

Yup, bashing on arbitrary "generations" is stupid. The whole "okay, boomer" meme manifested after thousands of ridiculous articles about blaming the youth for buying less diamond rings or whatever. It just turned around the absurdity. That was the funny part. Just seriously blaming our elderly is stupid the same way.

[–] fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net 2 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

And which generation voted for politicians that let the capitalist system run amok?

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 20 hours ago

The corporate lobbiests. Unless you're seriously arguing that swapping the Presidents from their era until now would have actually made a significant difference.

You aren't seriously arguing that, right?

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net 2 points 16 hours ago (2 children)
[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 hours ago

Both of these parties are run by the kind of politicians you're talking about.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 16 hours ago

All did, but disproportionately