22+ Read The First Word Meme

Evolutionary biologist richard dawkins coined the word meme rhymes with team in his bestselling 1976 book the selfish gene while he had no idea of its future internet related context he used the word meme to describe an idea behavior or style that rapidly spreads from person to person in a culture.

Read the first word meme. First words is a tumblr tag associated with a series of short dialogue scripts and webcomics humorously illustrating a parent s experience of hearing the first word of a child though instead of it being a common first word such as mom or dad the word conveys a message that is unexpectedly dark or insulting. The meme asserts citing an unnamed cambridge scientist that if the first and last letters of a word are in the correct places you can still read a piece of text. We ve unjumbled the message verbatim. A meme could consist of a single word or a meme could consist of the entire speech in which that word first occurred. According to this meme which claims to be based on cambridge university research we re able to read that passage because our brains process all of the letters in a word at once. Make he is about to say his first words memes or upload your own images to make custom memes. Caption a meme or image make a gif make a chart make a demotivational flip through images.

The meme as a unit provides a convenient means of discussing a piece of thought copied from person to person regardless of whether that thought contains others inside it or forms part of a larger meme. The first published case of the word meme pronounced meem not me me dates back to richard dawkins 1976 book the selfish gene. Aside from a shared first name sun a 23 year old chinese american doesn t exactly match the stereotype of a middle aged middle class white woman who to use sun s words acts like she can. Dawkins referred to it as a mimeme a word derived from greek that means that which is imitated the word was then abbreviated to just meme due to its similarity to the word gene. The concept of the internet meme was first proposed by mike godwin in the june 1993 issue of wired in 2013 dawkins characterized an internet meme as being a meme deliberately altered by human creativity distinguished from biological. Meme status submission year 2013 origin tumblr tags baby fandom text post about.