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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.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.


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[–] Vormadikter 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Largest Pest Epidemic in Europ; 1350 Birthday of Newton: 1642

Priorities? Privilege? Nae, Propaganda ;)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just because the largest outbreak was bot during newton's lifetime, many smaller ones were. The biggest would be the great pest from 1708 to 1714 with more than a million deaths.

So the meme is accurate enough.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Considering how casually we took covid after just a year or two, if it had been going on for the past 300 years, I don't think it would stop a guy from playing around with pieces of glass :D

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You're absolutely right about that ;)