37 Facts About Internet memes

An Internet meme, commonly known simply as a meme, is an idea, behavior, style, or image that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms.

Dank Internet memes have emerged as a new form of image-macros, and many modern Internet memes take on inclusion of surreal, nonsensical, and non-sequitur themes.

Rage comics are a subcategory of Internet memes which depict a series of human emotions and conclude with a satirical punchline; the sources for these Internet memes often come from webcomics.

Internet memes spread online through influences such as popular culture.

In utilizing affect as a visual vernacular, internet memes create a culture of unspoken referential importance.

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Internet memes usually are formed from some social interaction, pop culture reference, or situations people often find themselves in.

The phenomena of viral Internet memes is a users-to-users experience demonstrating the participatory culture on online platforms.

Internet memes scripting macros evolved for meme en- and decoding, facilitating their spread.

Internet memes have been examined by Dancygier and Vandelanotte in 2017 for aspects of cognitive linguistic and construction grammar.

The concept of the Internet memes meme was first proposed by Mike Godwin in the June 1993 issue of Wired.

Dawkins explained that Internet memes are thus a "hijacking of the original idea", the very idea of a meme having mutated and evolved in this new direction.

Furthermore, Internet memes carry an additional property that ordinary memes do not: Internet memes leave a footprint in the media through which they propagate that renders them traceable and analyzable.

At the time, Internet memes were just short clips that were shared between people in Usenet forums.

Early in the Internet's history, memes were primarily spread via email or Usenet discussion communities.

Dank Internet memes can refer to those which are "exceptionally unique or odd".

The image became popular and began to be used in Internet memes; according to Chris Grinter, a lepidopterist from the California Academy of Sciences, moth Internet memes gained recognition because of the inexplicability surrounding moths' attraction to lamps.

Many Internet memes have several layers of meaning built off of other memes, not being understandable unless the viewer has seen all previous memes.

An example of these Internet memes is the "E" meme, a picture of YouTuber Markiplier photoshopped onto Lord Farquaad from the film Shrek, photoshopped into a scene from businessman Mark Zuckerberg's hearing in Congress.

Internet memes are seen as cost-effective, and because they are a fad, they are therefore used as a way to create an image of awareness or trendiness.

Marketers, for example, use Internet memes to create interest in films that would otherwise not generate positive publicity among critics.

Brands' use of Internet memes has disadvantages when considering people's perception of a brand.

Internet memes are a medium for communicating comical images and or phrases for mass online audiences.

Early examples of political Internet memes can be seen from those resulting from the Dean Scream.

Indeed, a fifth of all political Internet memes posted during the election referenced a political policy which was part of a political parties mandate, while messages promoting people to vote were shared more than 160,000 times, suggesting Internet memes have a small role to play in increasing voter turnout.

Satirical Internet memes that express political opinions are effective in not only informing others but driving political debate and engagement with politics by offering an easy and even fun way to talk about important issues.

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All internet memes that were created and shared during the movement were very important in mediated discussions surrounding the OWS.

Eligibility of any Internet memes to get copyright protection depends on the copyright law of the country in which such protection is sought.

Some most popular formats of Internet memes include cinematographic stills, personal or stock photographs, rage comics, and illustrations meant to be a meme, and the copyright implications differ for each of these different formats.

Rage comics and Internet memes created for the sole purpose of becoming Internet memes would normally be original works of the creator and therefore, the question of infringing other copyright work does not arise.

Many Internet memes are transformative in nature as they have no relation to the original work and the motive behind the communication of the meme is personal, in terms of disseminating humor to the public; such Internet memes, being transformative, would be covered by fair use.

However, copying Internet memes that are made for the sole purpose of being Internet memes would not enjoy this protection as there is no transformation—the copying has the same purpose as the original meme which is to communicate humorous or entertaining anecdotes.

Purpose and character of use weigh in against Internet memes which have been used for commercial purposes because in those cases, the work has not been created for the communication of humor but for economic gain.

However, as Internet memes are transformative, this factor does not have much weight.

Rage comics and Internet memes created for the purpose of being Internet memes are an exception to this because the target audience for both is the same and copied work could infringe on the potential market of the original.

Ben Lashes, who managed numerous Internet memes, said sales of these as NFTs had made $2 million and established Internet memes as serious art.

The section uses the phrase "whether or not possessing artistic quality", the Internet memes that are rage comics or those such as Keyboard Cat would enjoy protection as they are original creations in the form a painting, drawing, photograph or short video clip, despite not having artistic quality.

Since Internet memes are generally meant for comedic value and have no intention to supplant the market of the original creator, they fall within the ambit of this section.