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Internet memes spread rapidly through online communities like viruses, reaching large audiences quickly. They were first coined by Richard Dawkins to describe units of culture that are passed between generations, similar to genes. While some psychologists see internet memes as collective obsessions that spread quickly before declining, they are cultural artifacts that evolve online and bring amusement through shared experiences.

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Internetmemes

Internet memes spread rapidly through online communities like viruses, reaching large audiences quickly. They were first coined by Richard Dawkins to describe units of culture that are passed between generations, similar to genes. While some psychologists see internet memes as collective obsessions that spread quickly before declining, they are cultural artifacts that evolve online and bring amusement through shared experiences.

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Internet memes

An Internet meme is a cultural artifact that spreads rapidly, reaching a very


large digital audience within a short period of time. Because internet memes
spread through online communities much like a disease spreads through an
offline population, they are also referred to as viral content.

Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins coined the term meme in his 1976


book, "The Selfish Gene." As conceived by Dawkins, a meme is a unit of
culture that is passed from one generation to another and correlates to the
unit of physical heredity, the gene. Some psychologists maintain that internet
memes are the result of a collective obsession. By definition, a collective
obsession has three main characteristics: it spreads quickly, it is viewed as
ridiculous by people who do not share the obsession and once it peaks, it
loses popularity quite quickly.

Here are some latest trending memes:

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