What qualifies as a meme?

It seems everything is a meme these days.

Richard Dawkins came up with it in his work "The Selfish Gene"

Basically, a "meme" is an idea passed from one person to another, in doing this, the idea 'survives' similar to how genes are passed.

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YourBuddyRandall · 26-30, M

@Howdy I don't think the things I'm telling you are common knowledge. I just happen to be interested in language and how ideas spread.

Howdy · 36-40, M

@YourBuddyRandall That's outside my field of interest. I was being sarcastic, though. Kids are stupid.

YourBuddyRandall · 26-30, M

@Howdy Some people in every generation are stupid. That's varience.

Sicarium · 46-50, M

I'm screenshotting this and turning you into a meme.

Howdy · 36-40, M

@Sicarium This is the greatest day of my life!

CountScrofula · 41-45, M

An image/video/gif (etc) which is copied and spread around the internet.

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