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Internet meme
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Internet meme
An image, video, story or joke that is voluntarily passed from one Internet user to another via e-mail, blogs and social networking sites. Considered a form of art, Internet memes are created to promote individuals, groups, movies, art, music and products, as well as to perpetrate a hoax or just be funny. They can disappear in days or last for years. See meme.


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Internet memes involve a catchphrase or concept that spreads quickly from person to person, and the latest to take off is Play Him Off, Keyboard Cat - starring the amazingly talented, and now sadly deceased, Fatso.
All Your Base, Tron guy, the Flying Spaghetti Monster and other internet memes are all featured in the E4 Book of Internet Humour pixels," you could actually print it out, if you made a really really big effort.
These phenomena - known as internet memes - are spread from one person to another in a similar way to viral emails.
 
 
 
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