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"ref": "2002, Rita Carter, Exploring Consciousness, page 242",
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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",
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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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"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",
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"ref": "2013 February 8, Tim Jonze, “Harlem Shake meme: the new Gangnam Style?”, in The Guardian",
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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",
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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",
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"ref": "2018, Eric W. Saeger, Russian Nazi Troll Bots!",
"text": "One axiom commonly seen on /pol/ is \"The Left Can't Meme\"; in other words, left-wing meme jokes aren't funny.",
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"ref": "2016 October 31, Andrew Marantz, “Trolls for Trump”, in The New Yorker, retrieved 2017-12-02",
"text": "Scott Greer, a deputy editor of the Daily Caller, tweeted, “Cernovich memed #SickHillary into reality. Never doubt the power of memes.”",
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"ref": "2017 November 6, “David Moyes to West Ham “memed into existence by the internet””, in Football Burp, retrieved 2017-12-02",
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"ref": "2022 September 22, Jess Thomson, “‘Becoming a meme totally helps a show’: is TV being written with epic gifs in mind?”, in The Guardian",
"text": "“Succession’s language is so specific, unique and captivating that nearly every line is worthy of being ‘memed’, even if it’s just somebody saying ‘fuck off’ or ‘bad tweet!’” she says.",
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"ref": "2024 March 5, Gabriella Paiella, quoting Messineo, “Why ‘Anatomy of a Fall’ Became One of the Most Memed Films of the Year”, in GQ",
"text": "In my experience the films that typically get memed are either really terrible (Madame Web), so huge that they’re everywhere (Barbie), or have a cast stacked with familiar faces so the memes cast a wide net for potential sharing.",
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"ref": "2004 May 17, you, “Truth vs. Lies”, in alt.slack (Usenet)",
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"ref": "2018 December 13, Aja Romano, “YouTube’s most popular user amplified anti-Semitic rhetoric. Again.”, in Vox",
"text": "“[P]ewdiepie is, once again, doing exactly what neo-nazis want,” Kotaku reporter Nathan Grayson commented on Twitter in response to the incident. “[W]hether he’s just meming or he ascribes to these values, it doesn’t matter. [W]hat matters is that he normalizes these ideas as jokes on THE platform where kids increasingly get their first exposure to the world at large.”",
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"ref": "2019, Rachel Monroe, Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession",
"text": "Some of his fellow fascists thought he was just “meming and pranking”; others dismissed it as “some autistic phase.”",
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"ref": "2011, David G. Atwood II, Into Hell I Rode, page 32",
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"ref": "2014, Sarah O'Malley, Touching the Edge of Heaven, page 3",
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