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That’s basically straight from Richard Dawkins, who literally invented the term like 50 years ago.

A meme is to information ideas what a gene is to genetic information.

Edit: my word choice was bugging me.

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50 years ago the internet wasn’t even a thing. Also that dude is yet another old guy.

It is lazy to just post a screenshot. At least convert it into a actual meme. There are plenty of templates that would work.

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So you’re just a troll, cool.

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Aren’t we using that old guy’s term?

See where you’re coming from, this is easy to defend:

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Temba, his arms wide.

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What if I told you that your post isn’t a meme, that memes are supposed to have banner text or footer text. Just having a picture with text on isn’t a meme, so your post doesn’t belong in !memes@lemmy.world?

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