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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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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 36 points 6 days ago (2 children)

And timeshares. And pyramid schemes.

I remember my parents doing one of those weird chain letter things where you'd copy the letter to a few other people, send a few quid to the people on the list, and within weeks you'd be sent thousands of pounds, if only the scheme didn't require more people than there were in the whole country.

[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

And the stock market, and the housing market. Boomers did actually ride a huge wave of capital appreciation.

They're talking about scams, so the things the dumb boomers dumped their cash on tonot get a 3x return on investment for the low low cost of being the luckiest and worst generation in history.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

And Reaganism.