I'm afraid that many people have no idea what a meme is and misuse it constantly. Here is the proper definition.
mēm
A meme is an element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means, especially imitation.
Example:
>a humorous image, video, piece of text, etc. that is copied (often with slight variations) and spread rapidly by Internet users.
Origin
1970s: from Greek mimēma ‘that which is imitated,’ on the pattern of gene .
Reddit is not a meme
I am not a meme
Things you don't like are not memes
Calling something a meme is not an insult
Thanks for reading I hope this clears things up for you.
>>458925
No, meme is just the thoughtform version of the word "thing" which means "Any idea, concept, thought, that I can't think of a better word for."
Examples include:
philosophy/quarantine/sound/isolation/apocalypse/faith/opportunity/crime/
subconscious/idealist/stubbornness/adolescence/domination/paradise/light/
perjury/prisoner/affair/unity/innocence/jealousy/mischief/parvenu/music/
decadence/stranger/irony/madness/strife/disaster/language deadlock/ignorance/
alcohol/economy/motivation/memory/principle/judgment/individual/privilege/
malevolence/affection/disappointment/skull/indignation/privacy/spoil/nature/
misdemeanor/art/irritation/echo/inspiration/life/metaphor/encouragement/genius/
scandal/intervention/dream/obscenity/poet/eclipse/medium/pursuit/compromise/
obsession/rock/beauty/anesthesia/hope/moaner/peace/destruction/solitude/moment/
message/necessity/planet/brain/revelation/money/construction/fame/
soul/misery/envy/fountain/imitation/time/backlash/history/factor/provocation/
enlightenment/muse/disease/perspiration/purity/confusion/drive/expectation/
universe/god/annoyance/despair/flower/wealth/depression/hate/quarrel/
rejection/experience/permission/virtue/supreme/assertion/guilt/winderness/
victim/propaganda/rapture/distraction/sex/reflex/suicide/anthem/restraint/
fanaticism/superstition/dignity/egotism/mask/degeneration/era/star/machine/
dynamism/reality/underdog/love/death/
>>458930
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HObEhxvPhyI
This is important
>>458925
Smart frogposter
>>460821
Cute Squiglyposter.
>>458925
Actually meme comes from a text of 1976 and basically means "an idea transmitted from one mind to another"
So memes are basically every idea that can be communicated
Reddit is not a meme, but they shout memes all the time
Same with 4chan, same with Facebook, etc.
>implying language isn't constantly transforming
dumb frogposter
>a cultural item in the form of an image, video, phrase, etc., that is spread via the Internet and often altered in a creative or humorous way.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/meme
>>460935
You're a fucking meme 2bh
>>458925
dumb frogposter
>>460917
"Reddit" is a meme though. So is any word in any language, and so is "Patriotism". These are all ideas transmitted from one mind to another.
Everything is a meme.
>>458925
OP is a meme
Dumb frogposters are a meme
is this a reddit meme?
>>462353
Yes
I've said it before and I'll say it again:
The word "meme" is literally the worst thing to ever happen to the internet. Ever.
If I could go back in time, I would find Richard Dawkin's mother when she was pregnant with him and kick her in the womb as hard as I could to give her a miscarriage.
>>458930
>>460935
>>460939
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>>462351
I want people like you to leave. You're barely capable of putting a fucking sentence together without spouting shitty buzzwords that have long since lost all meaning, raped to death by hoards of braindead 14 year olds over on /v/.
And I'm not going to be cliche and tell you to go kill yourself. What I want you to do is turn around away from your computer screen and face the wall. Then just talk to the wall. Banter with it for a bit, insult it, call it a meme wall. Have a meme conversation with your meme wall. Feel that meme frustration well up in your little meme brain as your meme wall refuses to respond to you in a fulfilling meme way. And I want you to bang your meme head up against that meme wall until your meme face starts meme bleeding and you meme yourself into unconsciousness and wake up in a meme hospital surrounded by your worried meme family who look at you in meme bewilderment and meme shame.
Now you know what it feels like for other people to have to talk to you. Fuck off.
>>464365
Maybe if you stopped posting frogs people would take you seriously.
dumb frogposter
"Memes are a meme" DJ Khaled aka 'm00t'
aha benis XD
>>464365
I read the first sentence and I understood everything you were trying to say. Why did you write more than the first sentence?
A meme is basically an idea that is easily transferable from one mind to another. Think "catchphrases." Memes are created when a large group of users come to identify with a particular image or slogan. Their continued [mis]use will bring about the destruction of the universe.
>>464528
It's worth noting that there's ALWAYS a better word than "Meme" for a concept except in the academic way Metal Gear Solid uses the word. "Patriotism" is a great example of a meme, but pic related is an "Image Macro".
The very words one forms one's speech with are memes.
>>462723
Was it called 'cultergen' before him?
>>460935
Language shouldn't change the meanings of previous words, it makes understanding things written in the past harder.
>>464818
No
>>464829
"Shouldn't" doesn't mean squat. What is and what ought to be are constantly at odds. Language does evolve even if it shouldn't.
>>464981
Evolution via laziness isn't evolution at all. It's devolution. Which is exactly what is happening. Language is devolving into a puddle of shit.
>>465267
Search Results
dev·o·lu·tion
ˌdevəˈl(y)o͞oSH(ə)n/
noun
noun: devolution
the transfer or delegation of power to a lower level, especially by central government to local or regional administration.
synonyms: decentralization, delegation; More
redistribution, transfer;
surrender, relinquishment
"the devolution of power to the regions"
formal
descent or degeneration to a lower or worse state.
"the devolution of the gentlemanly ideal into a glorification of drunkenness"
Law
the legal transfer of property from one owner to another.
Biology
evolutionary degeneration.
Origin
late 15th century (in the sense ‘transference by default’): from late Latin devolutio(n-), from Latin devolvere ‘roll down’ (see devolve).
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Would you care to explain yourself, you colossal hypocrite?
>>465267
Evolution makes things worse all the time.
>>465267
You pedantic piece of shit, language has been evolving since its inception. It's not our fault you and your friends speak like apes, and that makes you think that the whole world is illiterate. Use some logic, you worthless primate.
>>458925
is this you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IVJVTUNl0I
>>465286
"Devolution" didn't always mean "bad evolution" you monkey.
>>465286
Wew lad, excellent use of vagueness and unsupported assertions :^)
Almost got me.
>>464365
This is a great meme story. Meme Pat yourself on your meme back and go have a meme beer.
