• MindTraveller@lemmy.ca
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          23 days ago

          Always has been. A meme is a self replicating unit of information. The meme exclusionists are just engaged in historical revisionism.

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              23 days ago

              Not really, no.

              A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme

              The comic strip format could be characterized as a memetic style of communication that has spread by imitation from person to person.

              Such is not true of ferns, for example.