it's the viralness itself that i find annoying personally
it's a way for people to be radically the same as others, rather than being original

A meme in its most literal meaning is just an idea that spreads and evolves

An internet meme though is really just an inside joke

a meme implies transformation of the base idea, I would argue it's completely the reverse as "being the same as others"

do u kno de wey, cluck cluck cluck

it's lemmings behavior

Y'all arguin?!

The word's meaning has changed a lot over the years. Some people are convinced it just means an image with text. When was the last time you heard the term 'image macro' though?

一般人がいっぱい

meme means an idea

it's a consept

Yes I just said that's the word's literal meaning

the usage of image macros is just because in 4chan you post images

and it was the easy way to spread them

there's text memes since forever too

well we're talking in the context of real life memeing which has more to do with expressions and behavior

Not sure what the point you're trying to make here is Belial.

expressions are usually community specific

Has anyone really been far as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

lol i like that one

All your base are belong to us!

the classics

today I learned the swastika meme in Asia

卍・まんじ

it's used for "cool" "powerful" and "posing for photos"

Fun fact - a specific term for a counterclockwise swastika is sauwastika

I think a meme is only really a meme while it grows and lives and is recontextualized, what I posted doesn't really count as a meme, as I'm doing nothing to recontextualize the idea. it's merely a reference

reversed it's usually used for "sexy"

Funnily enough language is a meme which is why the word meme has been able to evolve as new uses for it were found to be useful.

in that case it's the only useful meme i can think of

Memes as the term was originally intended are the genes of culture.

ewwwww.

"Genes of culture"

Ewwwwwwww

You actually said that eewwwwww

i'm not a big fan of culture, except when i agree with it

That's the simplest way to describe it as conceptualized by Richard Dawkins.

could there theoretically be a society without a culture?

Basically the thinking is that ideas that get spread throughout society, and useless and harmful ideas are discarded and useful ones are kept and improved upon, so our ideas go through a process of natural selection

I guess a society could exist without a dominant or unifying culture, but that would just mean plenty of subcultures

i guess