Memas - what is it in the modern world? Almost a cancerous tumor of the Internet space. Because, based on the original meaning that appeared in the Greek language - “likeness” - the meme is distinguished by a peculiar replication or the ability to create its own copies.
Of course, it is clear that memas is not a living creature from distant galaxies, which can, by spraying poisonous jets around it, create copies of its own organism. This process resembles cancer cells, which gradually fill each particle of the body. In the real case, it is a hotbed of the same thoughts and associations in the heads of hundreds, thousands, millions of people.
History of occurrence
The concept of meme in 1976 was invented by British scientist Richard Dawkins. However, this does not mean that before he began to study this phenomenon, memes, the significance of which is sometimes underestimated, did not exist from the very beginning of the formation of human society.
The ancient people certainly had characters who could easily be depicted on a rock with a “shameful” inscription. In fact, culture and religion in their general representation are nothing more than memplexes - complexes of interconnected memes. Some of these "old men" have come down to us through the depths of the "deaf" centuries.
The fastest and most popular channel for transmitting information is the Internet network. That is why more and more quickly a meme is created in virtual reality. Perhaps while you are reading this article, a couple more memes have entered the language cloud.
Memas - what is it?
1994 contributed to the emergence of such a thing as a media virus. In terms of its semantic load, this concept can be equated with memes, which means a lot, given the similarity of the high degree of impact of such information on human minds. Speaking within the framework of modern reality, the media virus and the Internet meme are similar phenomena. In Western countries, these phenomena are given one big term - the internet phenomenon, which means “Internet phenomenon”.
Why and how does it work?
For those who live in a tank, it is incomprehensible that this is memes. In fact, the process is simple: some user on the forum makes a post with a funny inscription, and the next person notices this photo with a “funny” inscription and starts trolling everything around, modifying the original memeas by changing the inscription or background. We can say that the process of creating memes is a large-scale human interaction to create new reasons to laugh.
So, like a viscous poisonous mixture, information seeps into all intellectual holes and creates total chaos in the fragile minds of adolescents. It is not for nothing that memes are considered an infectious disease of social culture.
Making memes
The process of replication of memes occurs according to a terribly simple scheme. It all starts with one person. His hearing aid distinguishes at first a certain number of samples of available memes. Having passed through the structure of nerve endings, the resulting meme is either a wholly-owned copy of an already existing viral variant, or it becomes a generated source mutation.
Memas, gaining as many variations and derivatives as possible, becomes truly successful and held in the eyes of the public, it is not a shame to show a friend to inform about his progress. There is one great nightmare method. It is called "mixing memes." This way memes appear is characterized by horrific results, forcing people around to think carefully about the effects of drugs on the human brain.
The origins
The birth of memes is a process of “cooking” in various communities and Internet dumps, which proudly call themselves forums, YouTube, image boards and so on. It is in crowded places that people with underdeveloped brains appear stupid, meaningless pictures. However, to be honest, there are decent memes based on highly intelligent humor and associations. But the percentage of these is extremely small.