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Catster Poll Results
What's your favorite kind of cat-related Internet meme or phenomenon?
| LOLcats (60.10%) |
| Cats on Twitter (3.89%) |
| Funny cat videos (16.30%) |
| Cute cat pix (12.65%) |
| Other (Leave a comment) (7.06%) |
Results based upon 411 poll voters
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Sockington and Pennycat on Twitter (with LOLcats as a close second)...
What's a "meme"?
HL
HL
I have no idea :- But I do like funny cat pix and movies!
Stuffonmycat.com
Meme is hard to describe. There are actually studies about memes and their evolution. It's an idea that evolves as part of a culture. In old times it was old wives tales, legends, jokes, expressions or anything that took on a life of itself and became part of that culture. Some say language arts and religious practices are a meme.
Meme can be very complicated or very simple and obvious.
Here we speak of internet meme. Since the world is conneted and word spreads super fast we get info that takes on a life of its own...like Ceiling Cat! Or Lolcats.
Everyone knows it. Like net or leetspeak.
We like Lolcats and Cats in Sinks =)
Meme can be very complicated or very simple and obvious.
Here we speak of internet meme. Since the world is conneted and word spreads super fast we get info that takes on a life of its own...like Ceiling Cat! Or Lolcats.
Everyone knows it. Like net or leetspeak.
We like Lolcats and Cats in Sinks =)
Catster is even better than cat videos!
A meme (pronounced /miːm/, rhyming with "cream"[1]), is a postulated unit or element of cultural ideas, symbols or practices, and is transmitted from one mind to another through speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena. (The etymology of the term relates to the Greek word mimema for "something imitated".)[2] Supporters of the concept regard memes as cultural analogues to genes, in that they self-replicate and respond to selective pressures.[3] Memeticists have not empirically proven the existence of discrete memes or their proposed mechanism, and memes do not form part of the consensus of mainstream social sciences. Meme theory lacks the same degree of influence granted to its counterpart, genetics.
Richard Dawkins first introduced the word in The Selfish Gene (1976) to discuss evolutionary principles in explaining the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena. He gave as examples melodies, catch-phrases, and beliefs (notably religious belief), clothing/fashion, and the technology of building arches.[4]
Meme-theorists contend that memes evolve by natural selection (in a manner similar to that of biological evolution) through the processes of variation, mutation, competition, and inheritance influencing an individual entity's reproductive success. Memes spread through the behaviors that they generate in their hosts. Memes that propagate less prolifically may become extinct, while others may survive, spread, and (for better or for worse) mutate. Theorists point out that memes which replicate the most effectively spread best, and some memes may replicate effectively even when they prove detrimental to the welfare of their hosts.[5]
A field of study called memetics[6] arose in the 1990s to explore the concepts and transmission of memes in terms of an evolutionary model. Criticism from a variety of fronts has challenged the notion that scholarship can examine memes empirically. Some commentators question the idea that one can meaningfully categorize culture in terms of discrete units.
Richard Dawkins first introduced the word in The Selfish Gene (1976) to discuss evolutionary principles in explaining the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena. He gave as examples melodies, catch-phrases, and beliefs (notably religious belief), clothing/fashion, and the technology of building arches.[4]
Meme-theorists contend that memes evolve by natural selection (in a manner similar to that of biological evolution) through the processes of variation, mutation, competition, and inheritance influencing an individual entity's reproductive success. Memes spread through the behaviors that they generate in their hosts. Memes that propagate less prolifically may become extinct, while others may survive, spread, and (for better or for worse) mutate. Theorists point out that memes which replicate the most effectively spread best, and some memes may replicate effectively even when they prove detrimental to the welfare of their hosts.[5]
A field of study called memetics[6] arose in the 1990s to explore the concepts and transmission of memes in terms of an evolutionary model. Criticism from a variety of fronts has challenged the notion that scholarship can examine memes empirically. Some commentators question the idea that one can meaningfully categorize culture in terms of discrete units.
my current favorite is "play him off, keyboard cat!"
also can't get enough of ICHC ((-:
also can't get enough of ICHC ((-:
simply put, memes are cultural genes. discrete packets of information that are self-replicating, with an aspect of natural selection in that some catch on, others don't-and go extinct.
language, religions, myths & legends, archetypal patterns...also lolcats, icanhaschzburgr (am i spelling that "right"?), internet abbreviations (LOL, BRB) especially those accidents that slip into type, most notably "pwned" or "pwnd", then there's: "shock and awe", MAD (mutually assured destruction, for those too young to remember the Cold War or just weren't paying attention), and the most dreaded invader, email chain letters.
language, religions, myths & legends, archetypal patterns...also lolcats, icanhaschzburgr (am i spelling that "right"?), internet abbreviations (LOL, BRB) especially those accidents that slip into type, most notably "pwned" or "pwnd", then there's: "shock and awe", MAD (mutually assured destruction, for those too young to remember the Cold War or just weren't paying attention), and the most dreaded invader, email chain letters.
We are huge I can has cheezburger fans. Though we love youtube kitty videos, like the Mean Kitty song & Norah the piano playing kitteh.
Twitter is a very close second for us though.
Twitter is a very close second for us though.
Moderncat.net, my fav
I love the kitty bloggers. They have so much to meow about!
Ummm...Catster?!?!?! Duh... MOL
The Daily Kitten
Cats in Boxes, Stuff on my Cat, moderncat.net
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Sockinton on twitter & Icanhascheezburger.com
I didn't type this my Hooman did.
Stuff on My Cat!
June 16th 2009 at 7:29 pm