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[Loud Whispers]

No, no it is not.

[Putnam]

It follows it very closely. The term candy is a meme. A meme is a piece of information that passes through a group like a gene. It fits.

[AutomataKittay]

It follows it very closely. The term candy is a meme. A meme is a piece of information that passes through a group like a gene. It fits.

I think a better description of meme is 'virus'. A viral idea that somehow clamps into the mind and get pumped out to others.

And yes this circus analogy is most surely a meme.

[GreatWyrmGold]

It follows it very closely. The term candy is a meme. A meme is a piece of information that passes through a group like a gene. It fits.

I think a better description of meme is 'virus'. A viral idea that somehow clamps into the mind and get pumped out to others.

And yes this circus analogy is most surely a meme.

Not too bad, I guess. I need to read more Dawkins.

[adasdad]

IMO, Adamantine shouldn't be a spoiler, but HFS should be. In fact, we should go out of our way to convince newbies that mining Adamantine is perfectly safe, to ensure as much fun as possible.

this.

[Loud Whispers]

It follows it very closely.

Up until the point where it isn't a meme.

[GreatWyrmGold]

It follows it very closely.

Up until the point where it isn't a meme.

You do know what a meme is, right?

[Loud Whispers]

It follows it very closely.

Up until the point where it isn't a meme.

You do know what a meme is, right?

You know what the internet defines as a meme is different right?

[Sizik]

Internet memes are basically inside jokes with a very large "inside".

[Putnam]

Yes, and "circus" and "cotton candy" are both most definitely memes, like Homestuck's stairs or got tigers.

[Loud Whispers]

Internet memes are basically inside jokes with a very large "inside".

1. It's not a joke, or an inside joke. It's a colloquial term.
2. That's also not what a meme is.

[Putnam]

It's a joke, colloquial term, and a meme. The definition is broader than you think.

[Loud Whispers]

It's a joke, colloquial term, and a meme. The definition is broader than you think.

So "piping hot" is a meme. Got it.

[GreatWyrmGold]

It follows it very closely.

Up until the point where it isn't a meme.

You do know what a meme is, right?

You know what the internet defines as a meme is different right?

Now I do.

[Starver]

Hmm... if enough people believe that a meme is something which a meme is not, and find it useful to identify the not-meme as a meme so much so that this not-meme meaning of the term meme becomes dominant...  is that a meme?

(Also, on a related (unrelated to the topic at hand) note, I personally seek to restore "decimation" to its originally intended meaning (at least in quantity, if not to full-on purpose).  I believe that what I need to do is 'memetically engineer' the term so that it out-competes its inferior modern usurper-strain...  But something tells me that I should not be satisfied with merely decimating the latter's proportion of infiltration, for I need much more than a 10% eradication of the Young Pretender meaning to the term!!!)