Born only in 1976, the word meme (coined by Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene) has become so popular that almost every netizen knows what it is or can even do one himself.
It was Dawkin’s attempt to “explain how ideas replicate, mutate, and evolve [memetics].”
Today, we all understand meme as a humorous anything: photo with a caption, a short video, witty phrase, etc. that is posted and re-posted (often with slight variations) rapidly on the Internet. Many become viral.
Although meme is fairly new, its origin is old: mimema, a Greek word meaning “imitated.”
Some of the funny memes are satires about what the pandemic has dumped on us; they make me enjoy the grace of laughter.
This series, for those who are familiar with American celebrities, dramatizes—by using two famous names in one photo—what has happened to our demeanor as we drudge through the pandemic mud, or even just to survive.
It features a familiar photo of the president sleeping under a mosquito net, uploaded by people close to him to show what a simple life he leads. But the meme creator has found a way to make it funny and to editorialize on the president’s work ethics.
“Humor can be one of of our best survival tools.” Allen Klein
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