IRL meme
From Encyclopedia Dramatica
An IRL meme is similar to a meme on the internets execept it is IRL. Due to the fact that IRL memes cannot be transmitted by anything more advanced than the old media, they tend to stay within one local group. Much as memes are in-jokes with the entire internet, IRL memes are in-jokes with a smaller social group.
Examples of popular IRL memes
- Disco
- Final Fantasy VII
- Racism
- Religion
- Yoyos
- Sex
- "That's what she said!"
Transition memes
Sometimes old memes on the internet can become IRL memes among geeks, or vice-versa.
Some memes that have entered the real world include:
Some memes that have come to the internets from the real world:
WTF does that mean?
Most IRL memes mean nothing to people who aren't involved, such as:
- Cats in the kitchen
- MY NAME IS DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- 8E
- Why? (Level?)
- Legs aren't the only things you can break.
- Hotdogs
- Keving
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