Talk:Meme

Psychology and phisiology of memes

Most memes are caption memes. There is a need for the psychology behind what makes a meme. Nowdays, there are so many, that they all share a common trait:

• omission of words, which makes it innacurate
• playing with well known ideas and pop elements
• usually contains more emotions and logic
• most memes have a spelling or a grammar mistake
• many times there is no connection between the caption and image, but a parallel idea
• the humour is medium to harsh, slightly retrograde, and meant to feel umcomortable

Types of memes:

• memes with captions
• memes with overwritten text
• memes with replies or comments
• memes without images
• memes as gifs TudorTulok (talk) 09:52, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

Your ideas seem to apply specifically to Internet memes, that's a different article. Schazjmd (talk) 14:55, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 15 March 2022

add a link to "subreddits" to where it says subreddit where it says r/wallstreetbets Iambossofthegame (talk) 13:55, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

 Done ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 14:09, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 7 May 2022

Heinz von Förster introduced the term "meme" in 1948 in his essay "The Memory. A Quantenphysical Investigation". In it he understood the "meme" as the "carrier of the memory features". In analogy to the view developed by Delbrück, Schrödinger and others, to interpret the "gene" as the carrier of hereditary characteristics, as the quantum state of a large molecule, he saw the "meme" as a micro-complex capable of various quantum states. OHcr (talk) 14:49, 7 May 2022 (UTC)

 Not done for now: Please find a secondary source which says that Förster's usage is the one which "introduced" the term, as Förster's text is a primary source for its own text, and us saying that he introduced the term there would be an inappropriate interpretation thereof RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 01:22, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

let's put it another way:

Heinz von Förster used the term "meme" as early as 1948 in his essay "Memory. A Quantum-physical Investigation”. In it he describes the "meme" as "carrier of the memory features". In analogy to the conception developed by Delbrück, Schrödinger and others to interpret the "gene" as a carrier of hereditary properties, as the quantum state of a large molecule, he saw the "meme" as a microcomplex capable of different quanta states.[1]

Warren McCulloch recognized the importance of the article in 1949 and invited Heinz von Foerster to take part in the Macy conferences. https://archives.library.illinois.edu/thought-collective/cyberneticians/heinz-von-foerster/ OHcr (talk) 07:38, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

References

Please quote the page heading (so we know which page to look at) and some words from the text to see where "meme" is described. The archives.library.illinois.edu link does not appear to mention that term. Johnuniq (talk) 11:16, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

What is a Meme? /mēm/

 A meme /mēm/ is a picture with a caption that is usually very funny. Say that you were on Google and wanted to laugh, then you would go to the search bar and type, "Memes". A meme is a humorous picture or GIF with captions that is rapidly changed and spread online by internet users. 165.24.110.27 (talk) 18:43, 11 January 2023 (UTC)