What Is a Meme?

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The definition of a meme is something that is passed on from person to person. This can include behaviors and ideas, and some examples might include fashions, colloquial language, and even religions. Most people will associate the word meme with the type that you find shared on social media platforms.

With millions of people logging into social media platforms every day, popular memes will get shared very quickly between countless people. Some are so popular that they are instantly recognizable inf their format and some have even become an integral part of popular culture. We have listed some of the most popular of all internet memes.

1. Elf On The Shelf

The Elf on a shelf meme originally came from a kid’s Christmas book that was published in 2005. The book tells a story of how elves would go into peoples’ homes and watch over kids, reporting back to Santa telling him whether they were naughty, or nice. The book is written in a rhyming style, as typified by the title. Elf on the Shelf first became an internet Meme in December 2016. The original showed an action figure of the Ash Ketchum character in the trash, with the title: You’ve heard of Elf on the Shelf: leading people to guess the meme was Ash in the Trash. Since then, countless memes on the same theme have been created.

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