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What is the Cultural Impact of Memes? (Types of Memes/ whats a meme (Dank,…
What is the Cultural Impact of Memes?
Relationship to biology
“there is a distinct difference between cultural memes and the internet memes that many of us are familiar with.”
“internet memes aren’t nearly as successful. They spread fast but they mutate wildly.”
“Memes are stored in the brain and are passed on by imitation.”
Recreating is so important to survival, we have evolved to be able to do it so well. Some examples are noe going to the bathroom in drinking water. It isn’t something encoded in our DNA but we all know not to do that. Meme.
Types of Memes/ whats a meme
Dank
“an ironic expression used to describe online viral media and in-jokes that are intentionally bizarre or have exhausted their comedic value to the point of being trite or cliché.”
“The term Internet meme refers to the phenomenon of content or concepts that spread rapidly among Internet users.”
“the word meme, became a meme, something repurposed and appropriated through time.”
Impact on Society
“you have to spend time with internet memes in order to understand them”
“the ability to replicate memes is so beneficial that our genes have adapted to make us really good at it. We are now so good at it, that most of the memes we spread don’t benefit our survival at all.”
“Popular web sites such as knowyourmeme.com, memedump.com, or memebase.com view them as a form of art and provide accounts of the origin and evolution of famous memes.”
“…if we contribute to the culture of the world with ideas, they can live to infinity, even if our genes have already been dissolved.”
The History
“A meme-idea could be described as an entity that can be transmitted from brain to brain, the differences in how people represent it are not part of the meme-idea.”
what exactly is a "meme"
gene + mimeme = Meme
where "meme" came from
Dawkins, Richard, (1989). The selfish gene. Oxford ; New York :Oxford University
Press,
“the word meme, became a meme, something repurposed and appropriated through time.”
the definition
Controversies
“He's green with buggy eyes, and he's a frog. He's the creation of a cartoonist named Matt Furie. And for about a decade, Pepe was just an internet character used to punctuate jokes. “
“You cross the line when you use memes and images and order to threaten harm against a certain segment of society.” JONATHAN GREENBLATT
Thesis
: Memes are an essential part of culture. In both biological and social aspects. A meme isn't an image or a video, but rather an ideology.