{"id":49384,"date":"2021-04-17T15:50:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T19:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=49384"},"modified":"2021-04-17T15:50:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T19:50:31","slug":"where-have-all-the-memes-gone-short-time-passin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=49384","title":{"rendered":"Where have all the memes gone? Short time passin’"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has just occurred to me I’ve forgotten what a “meme” is. And the reason I’ve forgotten? How long has it been since you saw the word “meme” or an example of one of ’em used on social or anti-social media? Not even the word “meme”<\/a> is popping up nowadays.<\/p>\n

I’m defining “nowadays” as, oh, starting maybe last month or so. Because before then, memes were proliferating without control, growing like bamboo or creepily hi-speed creepers. Emerging from the ground like cicadas.<\/p>\n

The Wikipedia entry reports, “Proponents theorize that memes are a viral phenomenon<\/a> that may evolve by natural selection in a manner analogous to that of biological evolution<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Could COVID-19 have squished the evolution of the meme? You know, one virus overwhelms another virus. If my observation is correct, maybe the fast-evolving meme is going the way of dinosaurs<\/a>. But, I mean, fast.<\/em><\/p>\n

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