For most of the population, the media system is, I think, a different one. It's not just the case that it tries to entertain them. It tries to entertain them throughmemes, which will intensify attitudes that support the interests of elites.
Relatedmemes tend to form mutually supporting meme-complexes such as religions, political ideologies, scientific theories, and New Age dogmas.
2014, James Lambert, “A Much Tortured Expression: A New Look At ‘Hobson-Jobson’”, inInternational Journal of Lexicography, volume27, number 1, page67:
The originalHobson andJobson stock comic characters have died out as ameme, as has the application of their names to the Muharram in India.
(Internet)Media, usually humorous, which is copied and circulatedonline with slight adaptations, such as basicpictures, video templates, etc.[from 1993]
He posted ameme that went viral within a few hours on social media.
He stuckmemes on the wall to campaign for the position of President.
Not everyone saw the comparison to Nazis as a "meme" - most people on the Net, as elsewhere, had never heard of "memes" or "memetics." But now that we're living in an increasingly information-aware culture, it's time for that to change.
I do...but my journal is a mess. It's mostly filled withmemes and my bitching about a house I am building.
2012, Greg Jarboe,You Tube and Video Marketing, 2nd edition:
The idea was to append Keyboard Cat to the end of a blooper video to "play" that person offstage after a mistake or gaffe, like getting the hook in the days of vaudeville. Thememe became popular, Ashton Kutcher tweeted about it to more than 1 million followers, and more than 4,000 such videos have now been made.
This latest Internetmeme is shocking. But most shocking of all is the person who started thememe isn't a person at all, but a cat who seems to have no regard for people's safety.
2013 February 8, Tim Jonze, “Harlem Shake meme: the new Gangnam Style?”, inThe Guardian[3]:
Harlem Shakememe: the new Gangnam Style? [headline]
2017 December 15, Jonah Engel Bromwich, “Life on the Meme Council: Meet the Internet’s Gatekeepers”, inThe New York Times[4],→ISSN:
Social networks produce inside jokes at a relentless pace. The best, worst, stupidest and funniest of those jokes becomememes, and either you get them or you don’t.
2019 December 31, AJ Willingham, “All the trends we loved and hated in the 2010s”, inCNN[5]:
Haha,memes are funny! Until they totally become racist. Pepe the Frog lived a very normalmeme life right up until online trolls turned him into a green thing of hate in 2016. It got so bad his creator symbolically killed him off in 2017.
2021 April 29, Marie Fazio, quoting Ben Lashes, “The World Knows Her as ‘Disaster Girl.’ She Just Made $500,000 Off the Meme.”, inThe New York Times[6],→ISSN:
He said that NFT sales had helped establishmemes as a sophisticated art form and “serious pieces of culture.”
Yesterday afternoon four kids went to the hospital for injuries resulting frommemeing in front of a local cafe. Faith Hilling, Taylor Swifting. These are things that will get you killed!
2018, Eric W. Saeger,Russian Nazi Troll Bots!:
One axiom commonly seen on /pol/ is "The Left Can'tMeme"; in other words, left-wing meme jokes aren't funny.
2016 October 31, Andrew Marantz, “Trolls for Trump”, inThe New Yorker[7], retrieved2 December 2017:
Scott Greer, a deputy editor of the Daily Caller, tweeted, “Cernovichmemed #SickHillary into reality. Never doubt the power of memes.”
2017 November 6, “David Moyes to West Ham “memed into existence by the internet””, inFootball Burp[8], retrieved2 December 2017:
David Moyes succeeding Slaven Bilić as West Ham United manager is beingmemed into existence by the internet, Football Burp understands.
2022 September 22, Jess Thomson, “‘Becoming a meme totally helps a show’: is TV being written with epic gifs in mind?”, inThe Guardian[9]:
“Succession’s language is so specific, unique and captivating that nearly every line is worthy of being ‘memed’, even if it’s just somebody saying ‘fuck off’ or ‘bad tweet!’” she says.
2024 March 5, Gabriella Paiella, quoting Messineo, “Why ‘Anatomy of a Fall’ Became One of the Most Memed Films of the Year”, inGQ[10]:
In my experience the films that typically getmemed are either really terrible (Madame Web), so huge that they’re everywhere (Barbie), or have a cast stacked with familiar faces so the memes cast a wide net for potential sharing.
2004 May 17, you, “Truth vs. Lies”, inalt.slack (Usenet):
actually, it wasn't my mental functioning. i'm justmeming.
2018 December 13, Aja Romano, “YouTube’s most popular user amplified anti-Semitic rhetoric. Again.”, inVox:
“[P]ewdiepie is, once again, doing exactly what neo-nazis want,” Kotaku reporter Nathan Grayson commented on Twitter in response to the incident. “[W]hether he’s justmeming or he ascribes to these values, it doesn’t matter. [W]hat matters is that he normalizes these ideas as jokes on THE platform where kids increasingly get their first exposure to the world at large.”
2019, Rachel Monroe,Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession,→ISBN:
Some of his fellow fascists thought he was just “meming and pranking”; others dismissed it as “some autistic phase.”
We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation. 'Mimeme' comes from a suitable Greek root, but I want a monosyllable that sounds a bit like 'gene'. I hope my classicist friends will forgive me if I abbreviate mimeme to meme. If it is any consolation, it could alternatively be thought of as being related to 'memory', or to the French word même. It should be pronounced to rhyme with 'cream'.
^Mike Godwin (10 January 1994), “Meme, Counter-meme”, inWired[1]: “Not everyone saw the comparison to Nazis as a "meme" - most people on the Net, as elsewhere, had never heard of "memes" or "memetics." But now that we're living in an increasingly information-aware culture, it's time for that to change.”
2011, David G. Atwood II,Into Hell I Rode, page32:
When my parents got a divorce my dad washed his hands of my mom and me. He just pretended neither she nor I existed. If it weren't for myMeme, I would have lost all contact with the Atwood family after the divorce.
2014, Sarah O'Malley,Touching the Edge of Heaven, page 3:
Then there was myMeme, my father's mother. She was one of the most wonderful, loving, craziest, funniest people I ever had in my life.
2019, Stine Bødker,Klar til kærlighed, Gyldendal A/S,→ISBN:
Hvis du lige har taget et fint billede og fundet på en sjov caption, så hav det klar til at dele, kort efter I bliver venner, så du er sikker på, at han ser det. Tag ham i et sjovt meme eller et billede af noget, som I har talt om. Det er en ret low-key måde ...
2019, Andreas von der Recke, Jacob Harlev, Mikkel Sandal Hansen, Patrick Walther Thomsen,#Youngster: 5 dogmer til at tiltrække og fastholde millennials, BoD – Books on Demand,→ISBN, page19:
Hvis det ikke var for ham, kunne vi nok skrive 2018 på denne bogs udgivelsesdato. Hvis du kan finde et godt meme (Google billeder: memes) at åbne samtalen med Mikkel på, har du vundet hans hjerte. Men han respekterer kun dem, der kan ...
meme(media, usually humorous, which is copied and circulated online with slight adaptations)
2011 December 18, Federica Colonna, “La Lettura”, inCorriere della Sera, page 9:
Imemi digitali sono contenuti virali in grado di monopolizzare l’attenzione degli utenti sul web. Un video, un disegno, una foto diventameme (termine coniato nel 1976 dal biologo Richard Dawkins neIl gene egoista per indicare un’entità di informazione replicabile) quando la sua «replicabilità», che dipende dalla capacità di suscitare un’emozione, è massima.
Digitalmemes are viral content capable of monopolizing the attention of web users. A video, a drawing, an image can become ameme (a term coined in 1976 by biologist Richard Dawkins inThe Selfish Gene, to indicate an entity of replicable information) when its "replicability", which depends on its capacity of arousing an emotion, is highest.
Williams, Herbert William (1917), “meme”, inA Dictionary of the Maori Language, page231
“meme” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011,→ISBN.
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