Creepypasta: Horror fiction stories circulating on the Internet, frequently told in a first-person perspective as if reporting events that really happened.Character Catchphrase: A quotation that a fictional character is famous for frequently saying.The Catchphrase Catches On: When a famous catchphrase or other quote gets repeated outside its original context.Candle Jack: A meme in which anyone who says the name of a particular Freakazoid! villain gets abducted mid-sentence.Atheist Professor Copypasta: A copypasta meme concerning an Urban Legend about a Straw Atheist college professor.When adding to one of the subpages, please write the meme, then add the explanation of the meme inside a labelnote titled "Explanation." Explanation This is just the example. note Unless, if the authors are deliberately trying to invoke it. played straight, exaggerated, downplayed, justified, because it never "gets played" intentionally to begin with, just like other Audience Reactions. Note that Memetic Mutation cannot be played with e.g. It's explained in detail, in plain language, in Neal Stephenson's 1992 novel Snow Crash. The Trope Namer (for the word meme) is Richard Dawkins, who suggested a Mind Virus-like model of society: that cultural information is inherited and reproduced, occasionally with minor mutations, in a similar way to genetic information. These are probably the most common source of Surreal Humor. On the other hand, if you just want to learn who starts many of these, see Fountain of Memes. These are all examples of great resources for the memes themselves and the enigmatic culture around them, but beware the interstitials. If you'd like to keep up with the memes of the day, go to Know Your Meme, or Teh Meme Wiki on Fandom, or The LURKMORE Wiki ( NSFW), or the fine folks at Encyclopedia Dramatica (even more NSFW). However, certain memes are only popular to a certain group.įor in-universe examples, see Instant Web Hit. It can be an instance of The Catchphrase Catches On, which is when a phrase or saying from fiction becomes popular as an expression used in Real Life. Some forgotten or Discredited Memes are even resurrected thanks to the Popularity Polynomial. When this is the case you get an Ascended Meme. Furthermore, some memes reference something common, but become catchy enough to be associated with only a single new thing.ĭepending on how strongly the production company is tied with fandom, sometimes a meme can escape the space it originally spread in and get referenced in the medium it parodied through Bonus Material or Popularity Power.
Memes often spread regardless of content, taste or sensibilities, while the original source may be the only ones who know enough about the source material to use it ironically. Fandoms are liable to spread a "meme" version of a character which is totally (oftentimes deliberately) at odds with the original depiction, such as a cheerful version of a dark or scary character, a sexy version of a character featured in a Jekyll & Hyde episode, or an unlucky-yet-annoyingly-optimistic version of a normally depressed, tragic character.Īnother quirk of memes depends on where they're initially propagated. Because we are not interested in being muddled, dated, and beyond humor.įandom being what it is, this also applies to characters.
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Which means we don't want them in TV Tropes articles. If not used carefully, it can get to the point that its origins and original meaning become muddled and completely mutilated beyond any point of recognition or humor. Sociology notwithstanding, on The Internet, a "meme" (rhymes with "cream") is usually described as a catchy derivative of some aspect of pop culture parodied and repeated over and over, essentially being a cross between a catchphrase and an inside joke. Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, Chapter 11
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