Meme Start

Meme Start

British scientist Richard Dawkins first considered, then rejected, the word meme, writing Mimeme comes from a suitable Greek root, but I want a monosyllable that sounds a bit like gene. The suitable Greek root was mim-, meaning mime or mimic. The English suffix -I indicate a distinctive unit of language structure, as in graphene, lexeme, and so on. He later defended his newly coined. It remains to be seen if Wellington emerges from the incident with a larger following or a group of haters prepared to turn her next unusual utterance into another mocking meme. Before internet memes gained popularity in the 21st century, British scientist Richard Dawkins coined the term "meme" in his book The Selfish Gene. Merriam-Webster defines a meme as "an amusing or interesting item such as a captioned picture or video or genre of things that is spread widely online, primarily through social media. The phrase has since evolved to characterize the internet memes we know today. He defined it as "a unit of cultural transmission.