We are first introduced the idea of "meme" in Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene. Dawkins explains this idea as a cultural transmission or a unit of imitation. Some "examples of meme are tunes, ideas, catch phrases, clothes, fashions." (192) They "propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which, in the broad sense, can be called imitation." (192)
The website www.9gag.com, itself is full of memes. This website point is to entertain with humor its viewers. They show the same pictures, to make of fun of different real life scenarios. Examples of these memes, are shown below. They are not only seen on 9gag, although. They are able to be published throughout other world wide websites like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, etc. Its originality, starts to fade, and sooner or later, there is more than just one meaning.
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