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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.


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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They probably were going for that hello kitty psychological thing. For people not wanting to look it up, I believe it means hello kitty’s success as a symbol is in part due to her have a blank look that people transpose their own feelings/interpretations onto.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would also assume they wanted to use less ink colors.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Jokes on them. The printer will still stop working when "magenta" is low.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I can see that. He definitely went from 30's something hipster that was the in look a few years back to a more universal look. Someone else mentioned seeing a really happy smiling bird beak, which I can see little kids seeing (like a Rorschach test) instead of the mustache that adults see.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

How can they fail so hard at that?