this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2023
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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.


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[–] DharmaCurious@startrek.website 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Can someone explain to me why these two movies are linked? I keep seeing references to them together.

[–] flames5123@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They came out on the same day and are drastically different, so the meme was to watch them both on the same day.

[–] DharmaCurious@startrek.website 2 points 2 years ago

Ahh! Okay. Thank you for clarifying!

[–] headset@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] jayrodtheoldbod@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago

Somebody made the joke that the Barbie marketing team did their job so well that they ended up doing the marketing for a whole other movie on top of Barbie, and they were right.

Oppenheimer marketing was shit, too. Like oh by the way, new Christopher Nolan movie.

[–] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 3 points 2 years ago

it smells to me like the doings of some marketing agency.

a few years from now everyone's feeds will be stuffed with video essays about that one genius business strategy of the company that pushed Barbenheimer