Y U NO LIKE MEMES?
Posted by Stephanie Huynh | May 14, 2012
For some reason, I always get people asking me what a “meme” is, maybe it’s because I work in a digital agency or maybe it’s because I speak in lol half of the time (whatever, I can’t help it – it’s like a second language to me). When friends and family members do ask me about memes, I almost feel like an “ambassador” and get really nervous explaining what exactly what it is…I only want to give them the best definition without overwhelming them with my self-proclaimed loved for them. But what IS a meme? Stuff you find on the internet? Internet fads? A cat? (It’s probably a cat.) According to Wikipedia, a meme is “an idea, behavior or style that spreads from person to person within a culture.” I think this is the original definition in the old-timey sense, so I’d take it a step further and say that it’s not just an idea or behavior that spreads in general, but that memes spreads digitally. ON THE INTERNET.
