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Meme
From Encyclopedia Dramatica
The word meme (Pronounced: meme) is a term coined by Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene. Originally used to describe packets of cultural information, it was adopted by the internet to describe viral lulz or frunz. Its original meaning is no longer used except by sociology majors.
Meme is commonly used by people who aren't retarded because it is in fact shorter to write the word "meme" than to write out "internet phenomena" or "something that will wind up on G4 tomorrow for all of the nerds to fap all over". It is well known that the only people that care about internet memes are sad fucks with no life.
Sometimes bloggers refer to memes as a word game or short quiz taken and posted as comment bait. The more comments a user receives about their results the higher the chances are of that thing spreading. Then most often Memes are taken by fucking Idiots and totally fucked up and or overused which eventually leads to the death of a meme, but here is an example of the lifespan of a meme.
[edit] The Lifespan of a Meme
- A meme is born
- The meme becomes popular local to its origin
- Compounded overuse causes the meme to be burned into collective memory and distributed across the internet
- The meme has reached the bottom of the internet
- In some cases the meme has gone even lower and surfaced IRL
- Those that gave birth to the meme are filled with regret
- The meme lives on, spreading, becoming more and more deluded over time
- The meme ends up on Snorg Tees
- The meme has transformed into cancer
- The meme then must be tossed into the fires of Mount Doom by a rather unsuspecting hobbit for its evil to be banished
- Nobody gives a shit
- OM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM
- ????
- Profit!
However there are memes that deviate from this, and they usually move on to developing a personality. A couple examples of this are Caturday, where everyone posts cat macros on Saturday morning, and Pedobear, who surfaces once the scent of loli is in the air. A current list of memes is available at the bottom of this page.
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