Tuesday, 20 September 2011

Meme

What is a meme?
A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals or other imitable phenomena. popular examples are things such a s the Rebecca Black 'Friday video' the Antoine Dodson bed intruder video and so on... 


Who creates them?
Bloggers and blog websites create memes 


A popular meme...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8fndX_7PqQ
Being a meme I came across the video on the internet which is how they are most popularly found. 
On you tube under the most viewed section. It was popular as it was published around the time that Inception a box office hit starring 'Leonardo Decaprio' came out so it was a widely searched thing at the time.