I want to see the full phylogenetic tree including the pepe and wojak genera
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lol we should go all the way back to the Soviet soy jack memes :)
I miss forever alone.
Actually, the word "meme" was introduced as a reference to the word "gene". A "meme" would be a similar concept but in a cultural (rather than biological) realm.
it is "a unit of cultural transmission"—the cultural equivalent of a gene
https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/meme-word-origins-history