Re: OT: Vice media Alienstock documentary


Message posted by Nick on November 17, 2019 at 19:36:21 PST:

I'm sure that you know what a meme is, but here it is:

Today, the word is sometimes used to describe ideas deemed to be of passing value. Dawkins himself described such short-lived ideas as memes that would have a short life in the meme pool. Meme is an abbreviated form of the Greek word "mimeme," which means "something imitated."


meme
/miːm/
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noun
noun: meme; plural noun: memes

1.
an element of a culture or system of behaviour passed from one individual to another by imitation or other non-genetic means.


2.
an image, video, piece of text, etc., typically humorous in nature, that is copied and spread rapidly by Internet users, often with slight variations.

Attached link: Meme on Wikipedia

In Reply to: OT: Vice media Alienstock documentary posted by Joerg (Webmaster) on November 02, 2019 at 21:38:39 PST:

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