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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 email, 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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"We asked the jury what they thought was right and they came to the right conclusion," Grumpy Cat's lawyer David Jonelis said, adding that it was likely the first time an internet meme had won a lawsuit.
An Internet meme is a meme that spreads through the Internet.
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He writes, "Innovation in education isn't about the latest gadget or app or how adept a student is at using a smartphone to consume the latest Internet meme. It's about how technological tools can empower students to become who they want to be and who we need them to be--the kind of students who ask, 'What can I improve?
In the next 21 months, IBHost.in expects that over 700 new domain extensions will launch including the non-profit focused .NGO and Internet meme inspired extensions like .NINJA and even .MEME itself.
You'd have to be living under a rock not to be familiar with memes, which are according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, "an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture." An Internet meme is spread via social media and email, and can be a video, visual, link, hashtag or website.
The comic is an interesting example of the ways nonmainstream ideologies are buoyed by social media and Internet meme culture.
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