Have you seen those pictures together with a funny captions in the social media? They call those as "memes".
A meme (/ˈmiːm/; meem) is "an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture." A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices that can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena. The word meme is a shortening (modeled on gene) of mimeme (from Ancient Greek μίμημα Greek pronunciation: [míːmɛːma] mīmēma, "imitated thing", from μιμεῖσθαι mimeisthai, "to imitate", from μῖμος mimos "mime").
In our modern world, these memes becomes offending, sarcastic, truthful and funny. Imagine someone who will make a meme for you like the photo below. How would you feel? If I'm that person, I will be offended and hurting inside because I don't think I deserve that. I honestly laughed when I saw that picture and that's why it's very offending in her part. I'm not KJ about this. I just want to tell the truth that not all were happy with these kind of memes.
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| A meme for Janet Napoles |
Memes were also sarcastic. You will see in Facebook that some users make use of memes just to have a comment sarcastically.
Some memes also shows true concepts and honest facts or observations of any things, events or situations.
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| A meme showing the fact of what teachers do |
Most of the time, memes just entertained the people by exaggerated captions.
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| This scene come from the new show in Kapamilya station - "The Legal Wife" |
No wonder why these memes became one of the trending photos in the social media. Nevertheless, people should be very considerate in making these memes.
Source: Wikepedia
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Source: Wikepedia
Photos: Google Images
