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From my online gaming experience, Gen Z seems to be adopting new usage of ‘meme’ that is decoupled it from virality. It’s used to discredit something as being a
by antiterra 4y ago
From my online gaming experience, Gen Z seems to be adopting new usage of ‘meme’ that is decoupled it from virality. It’s used to discredit something as being a joke, falsehood or myth.
Wiktionary documents this usage since 2018:
> (Internet, slang) A myth circulating as truth, such as ineffective practices presented as effective.
> it’s a meme degree
> jogging is a meme
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/meme https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/meme
- onionisafruit 4y agoMeme seemed to be evolving to simply mean an image with some text on it. I’m glad for this new direction. At least it is related to the original meaning.
- LordDragonfang 4y agoThat definition is already antiquated, since that shift had already mostly happened by around 5 years on most internet platforms (internet culture evolves quick these days). As other commenters have mentioned, it's now "evolving" to be more or less synonymous with "joke"
- Shared404 4y ago> it's now "evolving" to be more or less synonymous with "joke" Or disinformation: A: $GROUP_I_DONT_LIKE is doing $BAD_THING B: dude, that's literally just a meme Which, thinking about it, is back around to almost the original definition.
- MichaelCollins 4y agoAn idea circulating through the population is more than sufficient to qualify it as a meme. "Virality", meaning prolific spreading, was never a necessary condition. Some memes are popular but some aren't, that has always been recognized. Also jogging is quite literally a meme, from the 60s and 70s. That's when the pairing of the term and activity became popularized and spread through the population.