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Meme

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They Live - Plandemic.jpg
A meme about COVID-19 features the movie They Live.
Image with text used to make a serious point, often humourously, shared online.

A meme is shared on the Internet usually with an image accompanied by (usually simple) text employed to convey a deeper message. Memes often employ cartoons, familiar images reworked anew, humour, pop culture references, and/or satire.

Etymology

The word was coined by British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in his 1976 work The Selfish Gene. He used it to refer to a unit of cultural information spread by imitation, drawing from the Greek word "mimema", meaning "imitated".

Meme gallery

See also: Cartoon #Cartoon gallery


 

Examples

Page nameDescription
"Dancing Nurses"One of the most peculiar parts of the COVID-19 propaganda effort saw thousands of nurses dancing in choreographed routines - something that blatantly clashed with one of the other PR-messages, the one of "overwhelmed hospitals".
"Let's Go Brandon!"A euphemismic slogan which arose from a failed corporate media attempt to censor anti-Biden sentiment
He Will Not Divide UsHollywood endorsed "artistic exhibition", set up in opposition to the presidency of Donald Trump. which was trolled. An infamous event in internet history.
Trump Derangement SyndromePerjorative term used to describe irrational psychological "trauma" inflicted from Donald Trump.
White RoseCOVID-19 resistance group taking the power of memetic warfare to the streets, via the medium of stickers.

 

An official example

Name
"Dancing Nurses"
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