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[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

More like a fiction tale that people take seriously. But also, maybe a meme in the original meaning of the word, before it became funny internet pictures

[-] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

I had both Dawkin's definition and internet memes in mind as I wrote this, since I don't think they're so different in the end. A meme (even in the modern sense) doesn't have to be a funny image: In can be a practice, like rickrolling; a text like copypastas, a story -true or fictional, like "operation baja-blast" or creepypastas. Some combine several of these things, like the meme "loss.jpg" contains the comic's story, it's pannels, and the behaviour of hiding the loss symbol or finding it. All of these things are also what religions are made off!

[-] TheQuietCroc@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Internet memes are Dawkins memes, you don't have to think they're not different when that's the case.

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