Meme Edit Meaning

1.

(noun)

1 : an idea, belief or belief system, or pattern of behavior that spreads throughout a culture either vertically by cultural inheritance (as by parents to children) or horizontally by cultural acquisition (as by peers, information media, and entertainment media)

2 : a pervasive thought or thought pattern that replicates itself via cultural means; a parasitic code, a virus of the mind especially contagious to children and the impressionable

3 : the fundamental unit of information, analogous to the genein emerging evolutionary theoryof culture

- meme pool (n.) : all memes of a culture or individual

- memetic (adj.) : relating to memes

- memetics (n.) : the study of memes

4 : in blogspeak, an idea that is spread from blogto blog

5 : an internet information generator, especially of random or contentless information

(Etymology : meme : derived from the Greek mimëma, 'something imitated', by Richard Dawkins in 1976)

Santa Claus is a more persistent meme than weasel frosting.

See Emme

2.

An item of pop culture propogated via word of mouth. Usually used in reference to the latest cool website that is propogated by e-mail.

Mahir, of "I kiss you" and "I invitate you to Turkey" fame.

"All your base are belong to us" the flash video, song, and Photoshopped photos.

Strong Bad and Trogdor the Burninator.

3.

"A unit of cultural information that represents a basic idea that can be transferred from one individual to another, and subjected to mutation, crossover and adaptation."

Kinda like a viral video that people keep making parodies and remakes of. =D

Pronounced (Meem; rhymes with dream)

Dude #1: Hey, "Unforgivable" is such a meme! Everyone's making a version of their own!

Dude #2: We should make "Old Greg" into a meme.

Dude #1: ....

Dude #2: ??? ......

Dude #1: No.

See meme, memes, meem

4.

Used to give a bit of pseudo-academic gravitas to stupid viral shit.

A 'meme' doesn't have to be funny, provocative or even make sense. Most memes fall into one of three categories:

- 'Quirky' stuff that isn't funny.

- Pathetic stuff that fills you with vicarious despair.

- Revolting pictures that could be presented to some alien jury as evidence that humanity is cancer.

All that is required for a meme to succeed is for a critical mass of basement dwellers to get in on it. This being done, it will be spread over bulletin boards everywhere like the pox. Much drama and the locking of thousands of discussions across the web will follow, for what is known to the trolling elite as 'lulz'.

This word defies easy definition. It lost touch with 'funny' long ago, and now looks suspiciously like the sort of drama-whoring same 'elite' correctly pans.

The meme having taken hold, they and similar circle-jerking gobfags proceed with a relentless propaganda onslaught on its behalf, which culminates in several hundred fucktarded spinoffs and maybe - if it's clean - a spot on the news.

At this point, the sneering pricks who first publicised the 'meme' declare it to be 'old' and begin to snipe at anyone still found to be using it.

Said pricks then go back onto 4chan to find 'new memes'. Maybe a cute animal saying something incongruous. Maybe four old men eating each other's shit. Maybe someone failing on Youtube. Rinse and repeat, FOR TEH LULZ you pitiful fur in the arteries of mankind.

Nobody will guess we're stupid, talentless and generally loathsome if we call it a meme.

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- Hey, I notice you've posted 500 of that Vietnamese amputee shitting blood into the mouth of a circus acrobat in the last 8 hours. When you get called out on it, you try to appear like you're too cool to care. Yet you nurture this picture like the son you will never have. What does this say about you?

- STFU faggot imgmungfeast/img

See tubgirl, lemonparty, goatse, o rly, lolcats, chris crocker

5.

In mexican spanish it means sleep.

"hacer la meme"

"to do the meme"

estoy muy cansado, voy a hacer la meme.

I'm very tired, I'm going to do the meme.

por favor no hagas la meme con mi esposa.

please don't do the meme with my wife.

See sleep, awake, meme, mexican, spanish

6.

Sister, or someone who is just like a sister.

Pronounced "may may".

The generally accepted spelling is Mei Mei from the Chinese word for little sister.

Origin: The sisters shout it at each other at the end of JOY LUCK CLUB.

Meme!!!!!

My brother just got married, so now I have a new meme :).

See mei mei, sister, sister-in-law

7.

A pervasive idea within a given culture. The idea may be spread through all channels of communication (word of mouth, photography, ad campaigns, television, &c.). The goal of the meme is to change the thought patterns of the populace.

-CNN's take on the war and how it's a good, just war.

-popular tv jingles