A meme is any idea that spreads and reproduces itself through a population. It has nothing to do with jokes or templates, except that the internet has caused image templates to be propagated and used in the symbolic communication of ideas.
Some image templates are examples of memes. They are not the defining trait of memes, or even the dominant form of them.
A meme is any idea that spreads and reproduces itself through a population. It has nothing to do with jokes or templates, except that the internet has caused image templates to be propagated and used in the symbolic communication of ideas.
Some image templates are examples of memes. They are not the defining trait of memes, or even the dominant form of them.
But it kind of didn’t?
Lots of things that happened before you were born, kiddo
Good chance I’m older than you, crypokiddo