Meaning of meme | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any unit of (originally cultural) information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another in a comparable way to the transmission of genes
2. Any unit of (originally cultural) information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another in a comparable way to the transmission of genes.
3. granny; nana
   informal
4. Media, usually humorous, which is copied and circulated online with slight adaptations, such as basic pictures, video templates, etc. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
5. Media, usually humorous, which is copied and circulated online with slight adaptations, such as basic pictures, video templates, etc.
   Internet
6. A specific instance of a meme, such as an image macro or a video, often with humorous superimposed text
7. A specific instance of a meme, such as an image macro or a video, often with humorous superimposed text.
   Internet
8. Something which is deceptive; a trick, a ruse
9. Something which is deceptive; a trick, a ruse.
   Internet, derogatory
10. Something not to be taken seriously; a joke
11. Something not to be taken seriously; a joke.
    Internet, derogatory
12. A work produced and shared in response to a prompt or suggestion within an online group.
    Internet

Equivalents

Examples

“Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches.”

“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 through memes, which will intensify attitudes that support the interests of elites.”

“Related memes tend to form mutually supporting meme-complexes such as religions, political ideologies, scientific theories, and New Age dogmas.”

“The original Hobson and Jobson stock comic characters have died out as a meme, as has the application of their names to the Muharram in India.”

“He posted a meme that went viral within a few hours on social media.”

“He stuck memes 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 with memes and my bitching about a house I am building.”

“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. The meme 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 Internet meme is shocking. But most shocking of all is the person who started the meme isn't a person at all, but a cat who seems to have no regard for people's safety.”

“Harlem Shake meme: the new Gangnam Style? [headline]”

“Social networks produce inside jokes at a relentless pace. The best, worst, stupidest and funniest of those jokes become memes, and either you get them or you don’t.”

“Haha, memes are funny! Until they totally become racist. Pepe the Frog lived a very normal meme 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.”

“He said that NFT sales had helped establish memes as a sophisticated art form and “serious pieces of culture.””

“This meme generator lets you make your own memes by adding a caption to existing images, or by uploading your own image.”

“I'm always posting memes on the groupchat.”

“It's a meme degree, you know. Good luck getting a job from that.”

“I can't believe I fell for the bulking meme.”

“Jogging is a meme.”

“kink meme”

“anon meme”

“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 my Meme, I would have lost all contact with the Atwood family after the divorce.”

“Then there was my Meme, my father's mother. She was one of the most wonderful, loving, craziest, funniest people I ever had in my life.”

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