You can see it better, as well as add more hits (wiki-style) here. And internet memes are questionnaires that people tag each other to do. These are fads or hits, not memes.
My understanding of the word 'meme' is that it is something reproduced and copied over and over within a community. That can refer to those questionairres OR to videos, images, and the like. Rickrolling or saying 'DO NOT WANT' are also memes. It's a hard word to define, but I know one when I see one.
John and El are is right, a meme is any idea replicated (coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene). An internet meme is any meme that happens on teh intertubes. Calling those questionnaires "memes", which is a use I've mostly seen on Livejournal and the like, isn't exactly wrong but it's like calling Internet Explorer "The Internet".
There is a difference between "meme" and "Blog Meme". Even if we ignore the vacuity of the former in the field of cultural evolution, it has a much more broader meaning than the latter term, which is highly specific.
I disagree, internet memes are just ideas replicated. "The internets" is a good example that's on there. They don't have to be questionnaires.
wow, you forgot the cirocco and wil drama during the early 1990s.
Oh my god.
From 'The Spirit of Christmas' on, thats my life.
My understanding of the word 'meme' is that it is something reproduced and copied over and over within a community. That can refer to those questionairres OR to videos, images, and the like. Rickrolling or saying 'DO NOT WANT' are also memes. It's a hard word to define, but I know one when I see one.
Awesome!
There is an "ate my balls" reference. I am satisfied.
John and El are is right, a meme is any idea replicated (coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene). An internet meme is any meme that happens on teh intertubes. Calling those questionnaires "memes", which is a use I've mostly seen on Livejournal and the like, isn't exactly wrong but it's like calling Internet Explorer "The Internet".
There is a difference between "meme" and "Blog Meme". Even if we ignore the vacuity of the former in the field of cultural evolution, it has a much more broader meaning than the latter term, which is highly specific.