Editing Meme (section)

==Internet culture==
{{Main|Internet meme}}
{{see also|List of Internet phenomena}}
An "Internet meme" is a concept that spreads rapidly from person to person via the [[Internet]].<ref name="usatoday">{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2003-07-28-ebay-weirdness_x.htm |newspaper=USA Today |first=Karen |last=Schubert |title=Bazaar goes bizarre |access-date=5 July 2007 |date=2003-07-31 |archive-date=2 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120702142144/http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2003-07-28-ebay-weirdness_x.htm |url-status=live}}</ref> Memes can spread from person to person via [[social network]]s, [[blog]]s, direct [[email]], or news sources. Sending [[meme]]s as a form of affection is known as [[pebbling]].<ref name="Edelman">{{cite news |last1=Edelman |first1=Amelia |title=Always sending memes to your loved ones? It's called 'pebbling.' Here's why experts say the trend has its pros and cons. |url=https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/always-sending-memes-to-your-loved-ones-its-called-pebbling-heres-why-experts-say-the-trend-has-its-pros-and-cons-100021620.html |access-date=12 July 2024 |work=Yahoo Life |date=26 June 2024}}</ref>

In 2013, Dawkins characterized an Internet meme as one deliberately altered by human creativity, distinguished from his original idea involving mutation "by random change and a form of Darwinian selection".<ref name=Wired20130620>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-06/20/richard-dawkins-memes |title=Richard Dawkins on the internet's hijacking of the word 'meme' |last=Solon |first=Olivia |date=June 20, 2013 |magazine=Wired UK |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130709152558/http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-06/20/richard-dawkins-memes |archive-date=July 9, 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Internet memes are an example of Dawkins' meme theory at work in the sense of how they so rapidly mirror current cultural events and become a part of how the time period is defined. Limor Shifman uses the example of the 'Gangnam Style' Music video by South Korean pop-star, [[Psy]] that went viral in 2012. Shifman cites examples of how the meme mutated itself into the cultural sphere, mixing with other things going on at the time such as the [[2012 U.S. presidential election]], which led to the creation of [[Mitt Romney]] Style, a parody of the original Gangnam style, intended to be a jab at the 2012 Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Pettis |first=Ben T. |date=19 August 2021 |title=Know your meme and the homogenization of Web history |journal=Internet Histories |volume=1-17 |issue=3 |pages=263–279 |doi=10.1080/24701475.2021.1968657 |s2cid=238660211 |url=http://mediarxiv.org/urgy7/ |access-date=28 February 2023 |archive-date=17 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230317201249/https://mediarxiv.org/urgy7/ |url-status=usurped}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Denisova |first=Anastasia |title=Internet Memes and Society: Social, Cultural and Political Contexts |publisher=Routledge |date=2019 |isbn=9780429469404 |location=New York |pages=13–26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Shifman |first=Limor |date=26 March 2013 |title=Memes in a Digital World: Reconciling with a Conceptual Troublemaker |journal=Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication |volume=18 |issue=3 |pages=362–377 |doi=10.1111/jcc4.12013 |doi-access=free|hdl=11059/14843 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>

===Meme stocks===
{{Main|Meme stock}}
Meme stocks, a particular subset of Internet memes in general, are listed companies lauded for the social media buzz they create, rather than their operating performance.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fool.com/investing/stock-market/types-of-stocks/meme-stocks/ |title=What Are Meme Stocks? |date=23 September 2021 |website=[[The Motley Fool]] |first=Nicholas |last=Rossolillo |access-date=8 October 2021 |archive-date=13 November 2021  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211113155252/https://www.fool.com/investing/stock-market/types-of-stocks/meme-stocks/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Meme stocks find themselves surging in popularity after gaining the interest of individuals or groups through the internet.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rossolillo |first=Nicholas |title=Top Meme Stocks of 2023 |url=https://www.fool.com/investing/stock-market/types-of-stocks/meme-stocks/ |access-date=23 April 2023 |website=The Motley Fool}}</ref> [[r/wallstreetbets]], a [[Reddit#Subreddits|subreddit]] where participants discuss [[stock trader|stock and option trading]], and the financial services company [[Robinhood Markets]], became notable in 2021 for their involvement on the popularization and enhancement of meme stocks.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Phillips |first1=Matt |last2=Marcos |first2=Coral Murphy |date=4 August 2021 |title=Robinhood's shares jump as much as 65 percent, like the meme stocks it enabled. |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/04/business/robinhood-stock-price.html |access-date=15 June 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last1=Popper |first1=Nathaniel |last2=Browning |first2=Kellen |date=29 January 2021 |title=The 'Roaring Kitty' Rally: How a Reddit User and His Friends Roiled the Markets |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/technology/roaring-kitty-reddit-gamestop-markets.html |access-date=15 June 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> One of the most commonly recognized instances of a meme stock is [[GameStop]], whose stocks saw a sudden increase after a [[Reddit]]-led idea to invest in 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Brown |first=Abram |title=Robinhood Stock's Surprise Supporters: Investors From The Reddit Group Who Hated The Company |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2021/08/05/robinhood-stock-reddit-meme-stock-wall-street-bets/ |access-date=23 April 2023 |website=Forbes}}</ref>