Antique Memes Roadshow

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A simpler time (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/antiquememesroadshow@lemmy.world

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[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'll bow to their judgement that it's a meme, but I was thinking of visual memes. This one probably wins as far as internet memes in general goes.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

You made me look up the origin of the word meme

"When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain, turning it into a vehicle for the meme's propagation in just the way that a virus may parasitize the genetic mechanism of a host cell." Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, 1976