A meme is an internet phenomena. It is the spread of ideas usually joke on the internet that appeal to those who understand the meme or the humor behind it. One example of a meme is the facebook trend that was popular a few months ago. Many girls were circulating an email that stated,
“Something fun is going on. Write the color of your bra in your status. Just the color, nothing else. And send this on to ONLY women no men. It will be neat to see if this will spread the wings of cancer awareness. It will be fun to see how long it takes before the men wonder why the women have a color in their status…..LOL!”
I know that as a guy, I did not understand why all these girls were saying names of colors in their status updates. Eventually the email was leaked to a favorite website of mine that explained everything to me www.urlesque.com.
There are many memes out there, some are used as a form of awarness as this bra color one was but some are used as tools for promotion of a product. There are stories of people from internet viral videos making others after they were offered to make more that featured their product. I once was contacted by a producer to see if a video I had shot while on spring break could be used on his television show.
This goes to show how powerful things posted on the internet can be. There is no telling where your meme will end up.
