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"ref": "2002, Rita Carter, Exploring Consciousness, page 242",
"text": "Related memes tend to form mutually supporting meme-complexes such as religions, political ideologies, scientific theories, and New Age dogmas.",
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"ref": "2014, James Lambert, “A Much Tortured Expression: A New Look At ‘Hobson-Jobson’”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 27, number 1, page 67",
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"ref": "2005, darklily, “OT: Livejournal”, in soc.sexuality.general (Usenet)",
"text": "I do...but my journal is a mess. It's mostly filled with memes and my bitching about a house I am building.",
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"ref": "2012, Greg Jarboe, You Tube and Video Marketing, 2nd edition",
"text": "The idea was to append Keyboard Cat to the end of a blooper video to \"play\" that person offstage after a mistake or gaffe, like getting the hook in the days of vaudeville. The meme became popular, Ashton Kutcher tweeted about it to more than 1 million followers, and more than 4,000 such videos have now been made.",
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"ref": "2013 February 8, Tim Jonze, “Harlem Shake meme: the new Gangnam Style?”, in The Guardian",
"text": "Harlem Shake meme: the new Gangnam Style? [headline]",
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"ref": "2017 December 15, Jonah Engel Bromwich, “Life on the Meme Council: Meet the Internet’s Gatekeepers”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
"text": "Social networks produce inside jokes at a relentless pace. The best, worst, stupidest and funniest of those jokes become memes, and either you get them or you don’t.",
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"ref": "2021 April 29, Marie Fazio, quoting Ben Lashes, “The World Knows Her as ‘Disaster Girl.’ She Just Made $500,000 Off the Meme.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
"text": "He said that NFT sales had helped establish memes as a sophisticated art form and “serious pieces of culture.”",
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"(Internet) Media, usually humorous, which is copied and circulated online with slight adaptations, such as basic pictures, video templates, etc."
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"sense": "media copied and circulated online",
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"singular"
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"plural"
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"definite",
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"first-person",
"plural"
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"definite",
"first-person",
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"definite",
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"definite",
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"plural"
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"locative",
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"locative",
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"first-person",
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"singular",
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"genitive",
"singular",
"third-person"
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"genitive",
"plural"
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"first-person",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
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]
},
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"genitive",
"plural",
"second-person"
]
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"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
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