User:Scaryszary/Internet meme

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The word meme was coined by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene as an attempt to explain how ideas replicate, mutate and evolve (memetics).

The word meme was coined by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene as an attempt to explain how ideas replicate, mutate, and evolve (memetics).

The earlier forms of image based memes include the demotivator, image macro, photoshopped image, LOLCats, advice animal, and comic.

The earlier forms of image-based memes include the demotivator, image macro, photoshopped image, LOLCats, advice animal, and comic.

The photoshopped image is closely related to the macro image, but often is created without the use of text, mostly edited with another image.

The photoshopped image is closely related to the macro image but often is created without the use of text, mostly edited with another image.

] Modern memes began to arise first in the form of "dank" memes, a sub-genre of memes usually involving meme formats in a different way to the image macros that were in large use before.

Modern memes began to arise first in the form of "dank" memes, a subgenre of memes usually involving meme formats in a different way to the image macros that were in large use before.

This term originally meant a meme that was significantly different from the norm, but is now used mainly to differentiate these modern types of memes from other, older types such as image macros

This term originally meant a meme that was significantly different from the norm but is now used mainly to differentiate these modern types of memes from other, older types such as image macros

This image of a moth became popular, and began to be used in memes

This image of a moth became popular and began to be used in memes

According to Chris Grinter, a lepidopterist from the California Academy of Sciences, these memes took off because people find moths' attraction to lamps quite strange and this phenomenon is still not completely explained by science.

According to Chris Grinter, a lepidopterist from the California Academy of Sciences, these memes took off because people find moths' attraction to lamps quite strange, and this phenomenon is still not completely explained by science.

The increasing trend towards irony in meme culture has resulted in absurdist memes not unlike postmodern art

The increasing trend towards irony in meme culture has resulted in absurdist memes, not unlike postmodern art

Examples of memetic marketing include the FreeCreditReport.com singing ad campaign, the "Nope, Chuck Testa" meme from an advertisement for taxidermist Chuck Testa, Wilford Brimley saying "Diabeetus" from Liberty Medical[citation needed] and the Dumb Ways to Die public announcement ad campaign by Metro Trains Melbourne.

Examples of memetic marketing include the FreeCreditReport.com singing ad campaign, the "Nope, Chuck Testa" meme from an advertisement for taxidermist Chuck Testa, Wilford Brimley saying "Diabeetus" from Liberty Medical[citation needed], and the Dumb Ways to Die public announcement ad campaign by Metro Trains Melbourne.