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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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[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is the lowest point, not like, supporting genocide?

[–] HeurtisticAlgorithm9@feddit.uk 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They're currently doing both, so I would say this is lower yeah

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I would love to see a documentary about this at some point.

I feel like Disney is generally known to fit the “big evil corporation” stereotype, but surely this wasn’t always the case.

When did perception change? What where the first big fuckups?

Perception changed as info flowed more freely. They've been evil quite a long time (at the least the 1970s), our very ridiculous intellectual property laws (mostly copyright but also other facets) are the direct result of Disney lobbying (and directly bribing) US govt lawmakers at multiple levels of govt.

It was only post internet that their leverage on media channels weakened enough for it to start being discussed