Thread:User talk:Nebuchadnezzar/Memes/reply (9)

Like I said, I've always been dubious and never really bought the idea - but equally have not read more than the most sketchy outlines or comments. It's an interesting metaphore, yes... it's just the way I hear people throwing it about "I will not subcum to your meme". "I'm over that meme now", seems almost a way for them (generally internet geeks and nerds like the folks on wiki or RW) to put some (any) idea into a classification as "popular idea everyone is buying into". Ie., in their parlance, right or wrong, "memes" are things you don't think about, you just have or do not have.

A meme is an idea. why did it have to become something *more* than a idea? I guess that's my problem.

Today I am talking about the "purpleization of downtown". it's an idea. when, why, or how does it become a "meme"?