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An idea behavior style or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture memes discrete units of knowledge gossip jokes and so on are to culture what genes are to life.

Meme the the. Verb used without object memed meme ing or mem ing. Nancytheripper or nancypelosirocks to fans and. A cultural item that is transmitted by repetition and replication in a manner analogous to the biological transmission of genes. An example would be how viruses spread to different organisms.

On april 26th 2019 redditor peng donny posted a meme based on an image macro that combined the phrase with a still image of pripyat from the intro of the game shown below. One idea is that culture builds in a way similar to living things. A meme is a virally transmitted image embellished with text usually sharing pointed commentary on cultural symbols social ideas or current events. Find funny memes instantly.

Memes change as they go creating controversy and sculpting society. The word meme is a shortening modeled on gene of mimeme from ancient greek μίμημα pronounced míːmɛːma mīmēma imitated thing from μιμεῖσθαι mimeisthai to imitate from μῖμος mimos mime coined by british evolutionary biologist richard dawkins in the selfish gene 1976 as a concept for discussion of evolutionary principles in explaining the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena. Meme makers of the internet however would seem to disagree. As soon as the speech was rent in two pelosi s actions became a hashtag.

In the following year the image macro saw a moderate spread in memes primarily on reddit. Just as biological evolution is driven by the survival of the fittest genes in the gene pool cultural evolution may be driven by the most successful memes. The meme received over 33 000 upvotes in six months. A meme is typically a photo or video although sometimes it can be a block of text.