I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me, and it'll happen to you, too
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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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All your base are belong to us. You are on the way to destruction. You have no chance to survive make your time. Ha Ha Ha Ha
Whelp, time to rewatch!
"Original": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qItugh-fFgg
This meme is so old Al Gore was still relevant as a politician and wasn't a meme himself quite yet.
Move ZIG.
For great justice
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Used to love the chuck Norris memes till i found out hes a MAGA dirtbag
Chuck Norris? Nope! Chuck Testa!
You thought that deer was alive? NOPE
Yo dawg, I heard you like memes
Remember when memes were “motivational posters” and were mainly kittens in fields
I did not come from Chuck Norris. I've been telling people he's a piece of shit for decades.
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Kids these days don't even know what memes are. For them webcomics and social media screenshots, even plain political ones without a shred of humor, are just memes. Everything is a meme now...
If we use the original definition of the word "meme", which is "a unit of cultural transmission" then yes literally everything is a meme.
It was coined to be analogous to the word "gene". One of the similarities is that the borders of genes and memes are fuzzy: when you split a gene in half, you get two genes. Both genes and memes are nested inside of themselves like a Russian doll.
The misdefinition of "meme" as "image macro on the internet" was ill informed, and is thankfully going out of style.
The term was originally coined by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 in, "the Selfish Gene".
The main problem with that definition of the word is that it's really hard to use. It requires both the speaker and the listener to be comfortable with the fungibility of data and code.
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If those are the past, what I think of as classics must be fucking paleontology.
ALL YOUR BASE!
What about all the different Nic Cage faces we would use?
That is not dead which can eternal lie.
Damn Daniel? That was like 10 years after all the rest.
This was the only one i dont recognize
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You buried the Mordor meme alive bro, get him out
Cool story bro.
No Advice Dog or Can I Haz Cheeseburgers?
Just yesterday I was at a cat cafe with two of my kids. My 9y/o is with me as we are petting a British “blue” shorthair and I tell it “you CAN haz cheesburger.” He laughs and is like “dad, what is that?” And I realize that that meme is practically ancient history for him. So I pull out the phone and show him the kernel of all he finds funny today.
When you accidentally killed yourself in BF Bad Company 2 it said Epic Fail on your screen.
Absolutely wild times
Am I the only one who remembers when there was a failed effort to replace Chuck Norris with Vin Diesel? Like the same jokes, but with different actors.
Or maybe I really did step through a wormhole into another dimension... 🤔
lolcats
"This headstone is so worn I can barely read it... 'Ate'... 'Ate My Balls'?"
Edit: For you youngsters, this was once the height of internet humour.
Grumpy cat an Nyan cat are missing. Pretty sure forrest gump was a meme at one point.
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Interesting tale, hermano.
When memes were more a feeling
No Grumpycat?
I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER?
Let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of memes...
I miss rage comics/memes
So where is the digital museum? There must be one right?
They should implement a 'history' or way to see pages made in order chronologically to kind of build out a timeline
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