Meme
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| Image with text used to make a serious point, often humourously, shared online. |
A meme is shared on the Internet usually with an image accompanied by (usually simple) text employed to convey a deeper message. Memes often employ cartoons, familiar images reworked anew, humour, pop culture references, and/or satire.
Etymology
The word was coined by British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in his 1976 work The Selfish Gene. He used it to refer to a unit of cultural information spread by imitation, drawing from the Greek word "mimema", meaning "imitated".
Memetic warfare
Memetic warfare is a modern form of information and psychological warfare that involves the propagation of Internet memes on social media. Memetic warfare has been seriously studied as an important concept with respect to information warfare by NATO's Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence. Jeff Giesea, writing in NATO's Stratcom COE Defense Strategic Communications journal, defines memetic warfare as "competition over narrative, ideas, and social control in a social-media battlefield. One might think of it as a subset of 'information operations' tailored to social media[1]
Meme gallery
- See also: Cartoon #Cartoon gallery
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A meme from 2022 about Volodymyr Zelensky solicitation of donations.
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A meme highlighting the growing awareness that mask wearing was useless as a means of preventing viral spread, and that COVID-19 was not a random occurrence, but a malevolent structural deep event.
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A meme with the party politics trolley problem.
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Another meme featuring the trolley problem with a moral high ground.
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Gollum Van Rompuy.
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Kleptocracy, fun for almost everyone* (the 000.1%).
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Now do AIPAC...
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Propaganda customer.
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Syria, old and new.
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The only real difference is the marketing strategy.
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This is how government works - eggs.
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This is how government works - JFK.
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Voluntaryist flag + handshake: If you feel threatened by people wanting to be left alone - you're probably not the good guy.
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We deserve better psyops.
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Your political parties are not loyal to you.