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this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2023
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Not really Richard Dawkins' original definition of the term when he created it was on the lines of
One of the earliest internet memes was just to photoshop "All Your Base Is Belong To Us" on everything.
4chan used to be the internet meme factory where ideas were copied and mutated before they broke out to the wider internet to go viral.
So that means technically, the idea that people shouldn't be posting screenshots of tweets and calling them memes is a meme.
Spreading is in the definition. A comic can become a meme, but not until it has spread.