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If you're looking to educate yourself on what memes are, well, you've come to the wrong place. But I'll try my best to get you hooked up into this bizzare world of the internet. Before you get to know how memes become their viral self we must first off explain what is actually a meme.

The word meme comes from Richard Dawkins himself, found as a term to explain the way cultural information spreads. With the Internet, there is a cultural background behind the screen, which is pretty cool to think that a bunch of sarcastic, ironic guys on a keyboard make a whole culture.
Just remember, memes are pronounced with the same rhyme as "teams", not "may-mays", if you say the latter unironically (there's the ironical pronounciation of memes used by the meme users themselves), you're probably gonna get crucified.
So, this culture has memes, elements and behaviors passed on from person to person, rather than by genetics, but by imitation and exposure. When people say "internet memes" they almost always refer to one type of media specifically, the one with humorous content. This is because the biggest impact and clicks that posts get is the ones that get a chuckle out of you. These memes can be about any topic, from first world problems to philosophy to politics.
Normally, these memers are mostly Millenials and below, as the internet culture originates from them and the next generations, as well as because they're generally in love with them! But the average age of meme users is increasing, though, as Generation X and Baby Boomer users discover the entertainment fun of spreading memes to their spreads.

It's also noticeable how these memes evolved during time into complete other things, like Spicy Memes, or Dank memes... But that's for another post.

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If you're looking to educate yourself on what memes are, well, you've come to the wrong place. But I'll try my best to get you hooked up into this bizzare world of the internet. Before you get to know how memes become their viral self we must first off explain what is actually a meme.

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Memes are cultural symbols and social ideas that spread virally, primarily with the intent to make people laugh.

The meme content itself is usually something minor, for example, jokes about dad, urban legends, TV shows (including shows like , which has generated its own genre of memes), movie references, and human and animal oddities. In rare cases, memes can include profound art and music curiosities or even philosophical ideas.

Memes are infectious, enticing people to spread them via social media, text, email, and photo and video sharing. Here are 50 noteworthy memes and viral videos that have captured our attention.

Grumpy Cat was a beloved housepet from Arizona whose real name was Tardar Sauce. The kitty had a disorder called feline dwarfism, leaving her with a distinctive underbite that gave off a pouting facial expression. This little beast became the poster cat for sarcasm and faux negativity. Thousands of captioned meme photos have been created using Tardar's seemingly grumpy face. Tardar, who passed away in 2019, actually was a very happy and friendly cat, which makes the sarcasm memes even richer!

Norwegian comedy and music duo Ylvis asked the burning question, "What sound do foxes make?" Sure enough, they not only provided the answer but presented it via a preposterous dance video that went viral. This musical meme has gotten a lot of traction since its 2013 inception.

This absurd gallery features people attaching human behaviors and captions to photos of housecats. If you like Gary Larson's Far Side cartoons, you are bound to like LOLcats.

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About

Memes are broadly defined as culturally transmitted information, or ideas and beliefs that can be spread from one organism, or group of organisms, to another. A key component to the meme concept is that the information is able to self-replicate, and in turn undergoes a type of natural selection, much like biological genes and viruses.

Origin

The word was coined by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene (shown below). The book focused on the importance of self-replication in evolution, and pointed to the gene as the unit of biological information that is subject to selection pressures. He postulated that perhaps not only biological information undergoes natural selection, and that anything that is capable of replicating itself would also be susceptible to selection pressures, like ideas and beliefs. The word "meme" was used to label this type of self-replicating cultural information, and it was derived from the Greek word mimema, which translates to "something imitated".

Spread

With the commercialization of the internet in 1995, modern memes gradually became more strongly associated with internet memes. Internet memes are associated with media, catchphrases, and more general trends that spread throughout various outlets on the World Wide Web like chat clients, blogs, social networking sites, email, forums and image boards. They're often used to point out how trends online evolve and change over time, creating various new derivatives.

Russian Anti-Meme Law

The Russian Anti-Meme Law refers to the Russian government's ban on impersonating or sharing doctored image macros of public figures that are deemed out-of-context in relation to their personality or reputation in real life. The policy was introduced in early April 2015 as a direct result of a court decision in Moscow which ruled the unauthorized use of Russian singer Valeri Syutkin's images as an internet meme to be an infringement of his privacy. However in other areas of the world, the ban showed a Streisand Effect as satire and memeification towards Russia's President Vladimir Putin showed an increase.

#MemeGate

#MemeGate refers to an online feud between YouTubers LeafyIsHere and Ethan Klein of h3h3productions starting in late March 2016. The primary causes of the disagreement centered on accusations that LeafyIsHere cyberbullyied young and disabled vloggers and that Klein was hypocritical and preached sanctimonious views.

Various Examples

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Videos

KnowYourMeme

Know Your Meme is a database style website run by the Cheezburger Network. Although the site has a small support team, the site is largely dependent on crowdsourcing for the documentation of memes as they develop and for the submission of viral media as it spreads.

Encyclopedia Dramatica

Encyclopedia Dramatica (or ED) is a satirical internet-culture based wiki similar to wikipedia created in late 2004 dedicated to documenting and categorizing internet memes and other cultural phenomenon. It is famous for having NSFW content that is largely uncensored. Originally hosted at encyclopediadramatica.com, it was turned into the "safe for work" Semantic Mediawiki OhInternet. Most of the articles were salvaged from the website and are available for download, and a new wiki EncyclopediaDramatica.se (previously EncyclopediaDramatica.es, .se, and .ch) has been set up containing most of the old articles, and is constantly being updated with new articles.

TV Tropes

TV Tropes is a wiki devoted to the documentation of "tropes", which are tools of the trade for storytelling in movies, television shows, literature, memes, and other forms of media. These conventions and devices are used in all forms of fiction, and should not be confused with clichés.

The Internet

The Internet is a system of interconnected computer networks linking billions of machines worldwide using the TCP/IP Internet protocol suite. Use of the Internet in the West expanded rapidly throughout the 1990s, growing over 100x within two decades. The Internet is the source of internet memes and is naturally the subject of numerous memes.

Fandoms

A fandom is a social group based around a particular interest and comprised of individuals who share that interest. On the internet, the term is typically used to refer to the fans of media franchises. It is often associated with fanfiction, as well as fan-made art and music. Fandoms are known for spawning large varieties of memes and in-jokes.

Meme Elitism

Meme Elitisim is an online ideology rooted in the opposition to the popularization of memes among non-underground communities and the mainstream media. While elitism has been a staple element of online communities since the days of Usenet newsgroups, such disdain for the promulgation of meme culture can be seen as a countermovement to the growing influence of social media in the Internet culture which began in the late 2000s. Those who pertain to this belief tend to have ties with online communities that thrived before the arrival of Web 2.0 and view themselves as arbitrators of what a meme can be and cannot be.

Ironic Memes

Ironics Memes is a subculture surrounding memes that are used satirically, usually by being deliberately humorless, crude, or overused, as a way to both criticize meme or meme elitism cultures, which has been considered by some to have become overused and unfunny with time, usually due to The Family Guy Effect, as well as to catch those with less Internet experience off guard. The use of ironic memes often includes intentional overuse of older Internet phenomena, such as 1337 speak or rage comics, as well as the use of the word "meme" as a replacement for some parts of speech, usually nouns or verbs.

Various meta memes exist that make use of the word meme or memes within their own memes.

Meme Lord / Meme Master

Meme Lord is an internet slang term used to refer to someone who shows a strong passion for memes. The alternate term Meme Master is often used as a synonym. Meme Master was first used on March 2nd, 2006, by user Duffergeek on his blog. In his post titled C'est la même meme he posts various facts about himself and near the end says "1. Leslie - Go Go Meme Master!"

Memeing

Memeing is an internet slang verb that means to create or spread a meme. In 2013, the verb evolved to also mean communicating through memes. On May 3rd, 1996, Matthew Aaron Taylor first used the term memeing in the title Fiction, AL, and the Memeing of Life for an online article about memes on the site Telepolis.

Meme Overload

Meme Overload is internet slang which indicates that multiple internet meme references have been made. It often refers to images and videos, but can also be seen as a subgenre of online remix culture largely driven by the hyperinflation of online media and in-jokes in general.

Meme Magic

Meme Magic is a slang term used to describe the hypothetical power of sorcery and voodoo supposedly derived from certain internet memes that can transcend the realm of cyberspace and result in real life consequences. Since its coinage on the imageboard 8chan, the fictitious concept has gained popularity on 4chan's /pol/ (politically incorrect) board and been heavily associated with several in-jokes and shitposting fads on the site, including Ebola-chan, Baneposting, and Donald Trump.

Dank Memes

Dank Memes is an ironic expression used to mock online viral media and in-jokes that have exhausted their comedic value to the point of being trite or cliché. In this context, the word "dank," originally coined as a term for high quality marijuana, is satirically used as a synonym for "cool."

Search Interest

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[10] Guy (also known as "Really High Guy" and "Stoner Stanley") is an advice animal image macro series featuring a photo of a young man who appears to be under the influence of marijuana. The captions typically portray stereotypical stoner behavior, similar to Stoner Dog, such as giving invalid answers to misunderstood questions and craving junk food.

Origin

On November 25th, 2011, Redditor randomdave posted a photo of a red-faced young man (below left) to the marijuana enthusiast r/trees subreddit titled "Being at a [10] is not always pretty." The same day, the picture was submitted by redditor Ahahaha__10 with the caption "Texts the person next to them / 'I want hopsital'" (below right) in a post titled "The happened to a friend of mine on his first ever bong rip."

Etymology of [10]

The name is derived from the scoring system used by members of the r/trees subreddit, also known as "ents", that indicates the relative level of intoxication with [1] being the lowest and [10] being the highest.

Spread

Shortly after Redditor Ahahaha__10 submitted the first image macro, Redditor vivalocaaa created a Quickmeme page using the photo called "[10] Guy." On November 30th, 2011, a post titled "10 Guy ordering a cheeseburger" reached the front page of Reddit, accumulating over 3,000 up votes within 6 days.

On December 2nd, compilations of "Really High Guy" examples were posted to the Body Building forums and the Internet humor site BuzzFeed. On December 5th, a slideshow of [10] Guy image macros was posted to the media hosting site Sharenator titled "High High Schooler." On March 31st, 2012, additional photos of [10] Guy surfaced on the "Stoner Comics" Tumblr blog.

On April 6th, 2012, several examples were posted to the Internet humor site Ebaumsworld by user yzman87.

The meme continued to spread on sites like FunnyJunk, Memebase and Tumblr under the tags "10 guy" and "really high guy." As of April 20th, 2012, the Quickmeme page has over 10,400 submissions and a Facebook page for "10 Guy" has 133 likes.

Notable Examples

Derivatives

[10] Keanu

The face of [10] Guy has been photoshopped into the Conspiracy Keanu template.

10 Koala

On April 29th, 2012, Redditor theofficialtevo submitted an image macro to the /r/trees subreddit, which featured [10] Guy with the caption "Dude. You're a koala" followed by a photograph of a similar-looking koala with the caption "when?" (shown below, left). Prior to being archived, the post received over 1,900 up votes and 70 comments. On May 9th, Redditor grantly0711 submitted an image macro using the same setup to the /r/AdviceAnimals subreddit, which featured the caption "Dude. Eucalyptus. / I can lick what?" (shown below, right). The post accumulated 467 up votes but only 7 comments before it was archived.

10 Dog

On February 1st, 2013, Redditor hairy_potter submitted an image post to the /r/funny subreddit, featuring a photograph of his dog under the influence of anesthetic after a surgery (shown below, left). The post received over 47,900 up votes and 830 comments prior to being archived, as well as several image macros portraying the dog as a stereotypical stoner (shown below, middle), similar to the character of Stoner Dog. The same day, Redditor Kuonji submitted a post titled "10 Dog at the park" to the /r/AdviceAnimals subreddit, featuring an image macro of the dog photo with the caption "A squirrel is just / a tennis ball thrown by God" (shown below, right), which received more than 9,300 up votes and 60 comments within the first week.

In the following days, more than 150 instances of Dog image macros were submitted to the /r/AdviceAnimals subreddit and at least 200 instances can be found on the Quickmeme page for Dog. On February 5th, UpRoxx published a slideshow post featuring notable examples from the series.

Search Interest

Search query volume for "10 guy" rose in November of 2011, the same month the images began circulating on Reddit.

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an element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means, especially imitation.
a humorous image, video, piece of text, etc., that is copied (often with slight variations) and spread rapidly by Internet users.
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A meme (/miːm/ MEEM) is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture—often with the aim of conveying a particular phenomenon, theme, or meaning represented by the meme. A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices, that can be transmitted from one mind to ...
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Memes are broadly defined as culturally transmitted information, or ideas and beliefs that can be spread from one organism, or group of organisms, to another. A key component to the meme concept is that the information is able to self-replicate, and in turn undergoes a type of natural selection, much like genes.
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Apr 4, 2018 - Here they are: the Greatest Internet Memes, distinguished by popularity over the last 15 years on the Web. Check out Grumpy Cat, Chuck Norris, Lady Gaga, the dancing baby and more!
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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 blog to blog 5 : an internet information generator, especially of random or contentless information (Etymology : meme : derived from the Greek mimëma, ...
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I hope my classicist friends will forgive me if I abbreviate mimeme to meme. If it is any consolation, it could alternatively be thought of as being related to 'memory', or to the French word même. It should be pronounced to rhyme with 'cream'. ^ Mike Godwin (1994-01-10), “Meme, Counter-meme”, in Wired : “Not everyone saw ...
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Adjective[edit]. même (plural mêmes). (used before the noun) same. Je l'ai acheté le même jour. I bought it the same day. (used after the noun) very. Ah, la personne même que je voulais voir! Ah, the very person I wanted to see!
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In 2016, memes had such a strong run they became bigger than Jesus. This year? Dozens of heavy hitters sought to steal the thrones of yesteryear's web royalty. Whether it was a screenshot, a GIF, or a heavy dose of sarcasm, the internet didn't disappoint when responding to 2017's insanity. (It helped that ...
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He called it the meme, and it became his most memorable invention, far more influential than his selfish genes or his later proselytizing against religiosity. “Memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which, in the broad sense, can be called imitation,” he wrote. They compete ...
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