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My face when (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Technically it wasnt a meme till I uploaded it to lemmy. The definition of a meme is:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think that "spread" in that definition is meant to be past tense. Posting an image, at least originally, didn't make it a meme. What made it a meme was people resharing over and over to the point it was like an icon that most people knew. Like Rick rolling was a meme. Whereas the billions of other posts that year which weren't popular, were not.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Almost like a memetic virus, eh?