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An internet meme is a concept, activity, or piece of media that spreads rapidly online through blogs, social media, and social networking sites. Memes are helped along as people post and repost popular memes. Examples include LOLCats, Rickrolling, and planking. The term was first used by Richard Dawkins to describe non-DNA based units of cultural transmission. Internet memes often parody existing memes and spawn new memes.

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