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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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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 100 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Y'all gonna pretend that while COVID-19 had us all hiding at home, a bunch of y'all didn't learn to knit, play guitar, bake bread, and all sorts of other things to pass the time and not think about the apocalypse going on outside?

Shit, Bo Burnham made a god damned masterpiece during lockdown.

[–] derpo@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay good point but now you’re not allowed to try my sourdough

[–] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] derpo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I could never say no to you, TacoButtPlug 🌮 I also have been growing this rosemary that goes great with it. Let me know when you’re heading over

[–] nero@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now there's a fiddler for the kitchen party!

[–] Falmarri@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

I'm not pretending anything, I had a great pandemic

[–] Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He also invented a new math, moving things, and universal gravity.

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He invented gravity whoah

Where would we be without him??

[–] idiomaddict@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago
[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

I remember I watched Brian Cox do some maths. Think it was rocketry.

He had a bit of paper explained everything and said "In only a couple of minutes I have managed to work out what is required to get to the moon. I can only do this because Newton gave me the second law of motion, if I had to derive the second law myself I wouldn't be able to do it in a lifetime. Newton was a genius"

It really put it into perspective for me. I wish I could find the clip.

[–] Destraight@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What was he supposed to do? Get smarter and invent a cure? He was playing it smart already by isolating himself 60 miles away from anybody else

[–] sewerkat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Privilege is when you do something creative while im quarantine

[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isaacs Newton creates the first gay agenda, 1672 (colourised)

The LGBTA agenda, ty.

Throw out some recognition of the Ace King.

[–] Vormadikter@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Largest Pest Epidemic in Europ; 1350 Birthday of Newton: 1642

Priorities? Privilege? Nae, Propaganda ;)

[–] Norgur@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just because the largest outbreak was bot during newton's lifetime, many smaller ones were. The biggest would be the great pest from 1708 to 1714 with more than a million deaths.

So the meme is accurate enough.

[–] FlyingPiisami@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Considering how casually we took covid after just a year or two, if it had been going on for the past 300 years, I don't think it would stop a guy from playing around with pieces of glass :D

[–] Norgur@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

You're absolutely right about that ;)

[–] SquareBear@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

He discovered Pink Floyd.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 year ago

Check your history. Color came into the world around 1855

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 8 points 1 year ago

What should he have been doing instead?

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have isolated ultra violet it's antimicrobial now get me some opium some brightly colored oil paintings and leave me be

[–] snowyday@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

For a brilliant historical fiction account of life and science during that period, read Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, The System of the World) for a brilliant