A new Pope Francis meme using Twitter’s tiled image format to make it look like the pontiff is holding up various things, ranging from The Lion King’s Simba to Baby Yoda has divided opinion on social media. “The pope meme is not funny. If you’re Catholic (or anyone who desires to have a modicum of Read more
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Summing up a religion one meme at a time
Tuesday, May 6th, 2014
A “meme,” as defined by Richard Dawkins in 1976, is an idea, belief or behaviour that is spread through a given culture or social system via social or information sharing. Internet memes generally take the form of an image over which text is written and are, for the most part, intended to be humorous, often Read more