An Internet meme, or meme, is a cultural item that spreads across the Internet, now primarily through social media platforms. Internet memes manifest in a variety of formats, including images, videos,
A lolcat image macro, a meme style especially popular in the mid-and-late 2000s
An example of the Doge meme, popular in 2013 and similar in style to earlier lolcats
Example of a "deep-fried" meme, featuring distortion and saturated colors
Some Internet memes have been criticized for being deliberately meaningless and nonsensical, such as the 6-7 meme.
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. A meme
Internet meme
…of memes include their tendency to be parodied, their use of intertextuality, their viral dissemination, and their continual evolution. The term meme was originally introduced by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene to describe a conceptual unit of cultural transmission, analogous to…
Richard Dawkins coined the word meme in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene.
Album cover of Abbey Road (1969) by the Beatles, on which the band members cross the road in front of the Abbey Road Studios in a row
Imitating the cover of Abbey Road has become popular with fans and London visitors.
The four actresses of the Japanese media franchise Milky Holmes reenact the Beatles cover in 2010, extending the original Beatles meme by their film costumes.