What is a Meme?

An Internet meme is a cultural phenomenon that spreads from one person to another online, promoting laughter and comical relief.

A meme spread online could be just about anything that is voluntarily shared, including phrases, images, rumours and audio or video files. An Internet meme might originate and stay online. However, frequently memes cross over and may spread from the offline world to online or vice-versa.

Meme’s are usually also related to that of a virus or flu like disease as they spread from person to person, except instead of being transferred through the air like the flu or a virus would be, it’s transferred over social networking sites such as facebook.

A typical Meme should be a short and sweet. Nothing too fancy or people won’t understand the joke and it won’t spread like a virus – as you want it to. With a Meme your main goal is to get an audience to laugh and feel good, if the general design of a Meme is overly complicated it’ll stray from the purpose of creating laughter.