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Memes spread virally, in a manner similar to the SIR (Susceptible-Infectious-Recovered) model used to describe the transmission of diseases. [9] Once a meme has reached a critical number of individuals, its continued spread becomes inevitable. [10]
The Baidu 10 Mythical Creatures, alternatively Ten Baidu Deities, was a humorous hoax from the interactive encyclopedia Baidu Baike which became a popular and widespread Internet meme in China in early 2009. These ten hoaxes are regarded by Western media as a response to online censorship in China of profanity, and considered as an example of citizens' clever circumvention of censorship ...
"All your base are belong to us" is an Internet meme based on a poorly translated phrase from the opening cutscene of the Japanese video game Zero Wing. The phrase first appeared on the European release of the 1991 Sega Mega Drive / Genesis port of the 1989 Japanese arcade game.
Perhaps the most pervasive 9/11 meme of recent years is a simple one, a riff on one of the defining images of the 21st century. It's the photo taken during President George W. Bush's visit to a ...
Image credits: needless.mp3 Knowing that memes are a powerful medium for spreading ideas, we should be wary that sometimes those ideas can be far from innocent—dangerous, even. For instance, the ...
And as a disclaimer: While "memes" typically mean funny images or jokes on the internet, these 9/11 "memes" are just more so posts online that respectfully remember those lost during such an ...
In 2011, 9gag and 4chan disputed authorship of internet memes published on both websites, whereby each company claimed the memes originated from their own website. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] Ray Chan argued that "9GAG does not create memes or rage comics, but helps spread them."
Memes that replicate most effectively enjoy more success, and some may replicate effectively even when they prove to be detrimental to the welfare of their hosts. [9] A field of study called memetics [10] arose in the 1990s to explore the concepts and transmission of memes in terms of an evolutionary model.