• @samus12345
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    37 months ago

    I think of spam as a term that originated from that skit more than a meme.

      • @samus12345
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        67 months ago

        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
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          57 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