this post was submitted on 26 Nov 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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[–] CosmoNova@feddit.de 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The actual term is satellites. Blame media and maybe engineers. People constructed so many manmade ones that natural satellites got the moons rebranding.

[–] smooth_tea@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

How is this getting upvotes? That's like saying your cow's name is actually "mammal". The post was not about a general term to label a group of things.

[–] denast@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Can't vouch for other languages, but at least in Russian, satellite (sputnik) is still in use alongside "moon"