I was going to link this story. Tale of our times.
Kid, early 20's lives with roommates in an apartment in Tampa. They are all neo-Nazis. Kid converts to Islam because neo-Nazism wasn't stupid enough. Neo-Nazis give kid a hard tim.
Kid takes gun and kills roommates. Except one. He takes cops back to the apartment. Other roommate is there, sad because his neo-Nazi roommates are ded.
Kid tells cops that he was also trying to defuse a terror plot - Neo-Nazis have explosives in the garage.
Plot twist: Neo-Nazis really DO have explosives in the garage!
Kids these days have ruined "memes"
This is one the the originals. I don't even know what a meme is anymore.
I was going to link this story. Tale of our times.
Kid, early 20's lives with roommates in an apartment in Tampa. They are all neo-Nazis. Kid converts to Islam because neo-Nazism wasn't stupid enough. Neo-Nazis give kid a hard tim.
Kid takes gun and kills roommates. Except one. He takes cops back to the apartment. Other roommate is there, sad because his neo-Nazi roommates are ded.
Kid tells cops that he was also trying to defuse a terror plot - Neo-Nazis have explosives in the garage.
Plot twist: Neo-Nazis really DO have explosives in the garage!
Kids these days have ruined "memes"
This is one the the originals. I don't even know what a meme is anymore.
I was going to link this story. Tale of our times.
Kid, early 20's lives with roommates in an apartment in Tampa. They are all neo-Nazis. Kid converts to Islam because neo-Nazism wasn't stupid enough. Neo-Nazis give kid a hard tim.
Kid takes gun and kills roommates. Except one. He takes cops back to the apartment. Other roommate is there, sad because his neo-Nazi roommates are ded.
Kid tells cops that he was also trying to defuse a terror plot - Neo-Nazis have explosives in the garage.
Plot twist: Neo-Nazis really DO have explosives in the garage!
Kids these days have ruined "memes"
This is one the the originals. I don't even know what a meme is anymore.
memeplay noun \ˈmēm\ Definition of meme for English Language Learners : an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from one person to another in a culture : an amusing or interesting picture, video, etc., that is spread widely through the Internet
Definition of meme 1 : an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture Memes (discrete units of knowledge, gossip, jokes and so on) are to culture what genes are to life. Just as biological evolution is driven by the survival of the fittest genes in the gene pool, cultural evolution may be driven by the most successful memes. — Richard Dawkins 2 : an amusing or interesting item (such as a captioned picture or video) or genre of items that is spread widely online especially through social media … the band encouraged fans to make memes to advertise the U.S. release of their EP … — William Gruger The grumpy cat meme frowned its way onto the Internet in September 2012 and never turned its dissatisfied head back. Since then, the image of the cranky cat has grown more and more popular in direct proportion to appearing less and less impressed by fame. — Anastasia Thrift memeticplay \mē-ˈme-tik, mə-\ adjective … the exhibition seeks to give a sense not only of Holmes's origins but of the real-world milieu in which Conan Doyle set him and of his memetic spread through the culture. — Sam Leith Did You Know? In his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, British scientist Richard Dawkins defended his newly coined word meme, which he defined as "a unit of cultural transmission." Having first considered, then rejected, "mimeme," he wrote: "‘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.’" (The suitable Greek root was mim-, meaning "mime" or "mimic." The English suffix -eme indicates a distinctive unit of language structure, as in "grapheme," "lexeme," and "phoneme.") "Meme" itself, like any good meme, caught on fairly quickly, spreading from person to person as it established itself in the language.
Origin and Etymology of meme alteration of mimeme, from mim- (as in mimesis) + -eme
memeplay noun \ˈmēm\ Definition of meme for English Language Learners : an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from one person to another in a culture : an amusing or interesting picture, video, etc., that is spread widely through the Internet
Definition of meme 1 : an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture Memes (discrete units of knowledge, gossip, jokes and so on) are to culture what genes are to life. Just as biological evolution is driven by the survival of the fittest genes in the gene pool, cultural evolution may be driven by the most successful memes. — Richard Dawkins 2 : an amusing or interesting item (such as a captioned picture or video) or genre of items that is spread widely online especially through social media … the band encouraged fans to make memes to advertise the U.S. release of their EP … — William Gruger The grumpy cat meme frowned its way onto the Internet in September 2012 and never turned its dissatisfied head back. Since then, the image of the cranky cat has grown more and more popular in direct proportion to appearing less and less impressed by fame. — Anastasia Thrift memeticplay \mē-ˈme-tik, mə-\ adjective … the exhibition seeks to give a sense not only of Holmes's origins but of the real-world milieu in which Conan Doyle set him and of his memetic spread through the culture. — Sam Leith Did You Know? In his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, British scientist Richard Dawkins defended his newly coined word meme, which he defined as "a unit of cultural transmission." Having first considered, then rejected, "mimeme," he wrote: "‘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.’" (The suitable Greek root was mim-, meaning "mime" or "mimic." The English suffix -eme indicates a distinctive unit of language structure, as in "grapheme," "lexeme," and "phoneme.") "Meme" itself, like any good meme, caught on fairly quickly, spreading from person to person as it established itself in the language.
Origin and Etymology of meme alteration of mimeme, from mim- (as in mimesis) + -eme
First Known Use: 1976
I'm not going to pronounce something wrong just because some 1970s hippy can't spell. Fuck em
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This is one the the originals. I don't even know what a meme is anymore.
By the way, it's "me me" not "meem" fucking kids
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meme
MEME Defined for English Language Learners
memeplay
noun \ˈmēm\
Definition of meme for English Language Learners
: an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from one person to another in a culture
: an amusing or interesting picture, video, etc., that is spread widely through the Internet
Definition of meme
1
: an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture
Memes (discrete units of knowledge, gossip, jokes and so on) are to culture what genes are to life. Just as biological evolution is driven by the survival of the fittest genes in the gene pool, cultural evolution may be driven by the most successful memes. — Richard Dawkins
2
: an amusing or interesting item (such as a captioned picture or video) or genre of items that is spread widely online especially through social media
… the band encouraged fans to make memes to advertise the U.S. release of their EP … — William Gruger
The grumpy cat meme frowned its way onto the Internet in September 2012 and never turned its dissatisfied head back. Since then, the image of the cranky cat has grown more and more popular in direct proportion to appearing less and less impressed by fame. — Anastasia Thrift
memeticplay \mē-ˈme-tik, mə-\ adjective
… the exhibition seeks to give a sense not only of Holmes's origins but of the real-world milieu in which Conan Doyle set him and of his memetic spread through the culture. — Sam Leith
Did You Know?
In his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, British scientist Richard Dawkins defended his newly coined word meme, which he defined as "a unit of cultural transmission." Having first considered, then rejected, "mimeme," he wrote: "‘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.’" (The suitable Greek root was mim-, meaning "mime" or "mimic." The English suffix -eme indicates a distinctive unit of language structure, as in "grapheme," "lexeme," and "phoneme.") "Meme" itself, like any good meme, caught on fairly quickly, spreading from person to person as it established itself in the language.
Origin and Etymology of meme
alteration of mimeme, from mim- (as in mimesis) + -eme
First Known Use: 1976