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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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I like your logic (media.piefed.zip)

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[–] MrSelfDestruct@piefed.zip 22 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

"The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb."

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

And is still thinner than taco balls' new volcano cheese sauce! Great for eating while being snackrificed to a volcano!

[–] hakase@lemmy.zip 12 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

This version was coined in the 1990s

[–] ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Seems maybe to come originally fromsome guy's interpretation of an Arab interpretation of the passage:

H.C. Trumbull contrasts the expression with a comparison of blood and milk in the Arab world:

We, in the West, are accustomed to say that "blood is thicker than water"; but the Arabs have the idea that blood is thicker than milk, than a mother's milk. With them, any two children nourished at the same breast are called "milk-brothers," or "sucking brothers"; and the tie between such is very strong. […] But the Arabs hold that brothers in the covenant of blood are closer than brothers at a common breast; that those who have tasted each other's blood are in a surer covenant than those who have tasted the same milk together; that "blood-lickers," as the blood-brothers are sometimes called, are more truly one than "milk-brothers," or "sucking brothers"; that, indeed, blood is thicker than milk, as well as thicker than water.[16]

(From the Other Interpretations section)

[–] dingus@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (3 children)

I feel like everyone just makes this shit up

[–] cecinestpasunecommunication@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

Yes that's most of why people say shit. Then you make up something badass and some other asshole steals it and suddenly its a cultural thing.

[–] forgetfulmeat@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

That's every quote.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Yes.

That... that is what creativity is.

Its not always... sensible, or ... broadly liked... but yeah, people things up... is creativity.

If you're quoting some old famous saying?

Somebody, at some point, said that for the first time in history.

[–] dingus@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

I think you're missing my point. People love to give random "corrections" of things that may or may not be correct themselves. It seems like people just love to mindlessly parrot things.