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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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[–] accideath@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They are indeed usually in inches but that’s probably bleeding back to Europe from the US. And most people don’t actually know how much that would be in metric. It’s sometimes listed but no one I know actually uses those numbers. We just know that 65 is bigger than 55, etc. If we want to know if it fits in our living rooms, then we look at the actual size in cm. I also couldn’t think of anything else that’s imperial, at least here in Germany.

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It's a diagonal measurement so it's literally only useful for comparing screens.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 months ago

As long as they're the same ratio 🤪

[–] accideath@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Yep. Which is probably why no one bothered to use metric.