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A meme is just something funny that you share, so anything someone finds funny and posts online or shares with one friend is sharing memes.

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Seems wrong to consider regular jokes as internet memes

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What are chain email jokes than the OG meme? If you take a picture of the joke and share it, you just memed it. Share it vocally, and yeah it’s not then.

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What if you write it again? And I meant that it doesn’t seem right even though it technically mighr be.

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A meme is just something funny that you share

By the technical definition, it doesn’t even have to be funny, it only needs to be quickly sharable

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Usually you wouldn’t share something that wasn’t funny/amusing though, there is that whole angle of sharing horrific stuff for shits and giggle though… so yeah it really doesn’t matter.

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Usually yes, but, at least in programming, “data is code, code is data” is a meme, in the sense that it’s sharable. And it’s not exactly funny, it’s just an idea.

But yeah, meme is used for intense-based jokes because it’s the norm

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