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[-] epidemian@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago

it’s not a meme unless it goes viral.

If you want to be pedantic, it'd be good to know that that's not what a meme is. A meme is a unit of cultural information—analogous to a gene being a unit of genetic information. A meme may not go viral, just like a gene might not be successfully copied onto other generations, but it's still a meme nonetheless :)

[-] alekwithak@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Yeah yeah I've read Dawkins :P My definition is based on earlier internet when things were what they were and became a meme as they were shared. Of course a popular image macro haz become meme but so can a questionnaire (wtf was wrong with us??)

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