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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.


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[–] Im_old@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

you should really read "the laundry files" by Charles Stross. It's a whole series of stories on this topic basically

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Seconded. This is an excerpt from a comment I made the other day about it:

If you like making fun of quiverfull ministries, programming, Eldritch horrors, British humor (humour?), spy thrillers, agitated engineers, vampires that don't exist, bloodthirsty elves, and a thinly veiled story about anthropomorphic climate change then this is the series for you.

Entities from other realities are listening and waiting for our computers to summon them.