Memes and terms

A meme is a miserable pile of secrets, or anything that is used and reused beyond it's life expectancy. Formal meaning for meme is "a unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another."

Some memes are deliberately created, called forced memes, especially labeled this way if they fail to catch on. Some are borrowed from other sources, usually from sites like SomethingAwful, 2chan, and 2ch. Many memes come about entirely by accident. Major GETs on /b/ are a common source of memes, and the vast majority of 4chan's new memes originate from /b/.

Despite 4chan's memes being a defining element of the board's culture, the mods often seem to find them annoying. The term itself was coined by the evolutionist [[:w:Richard Dawkins], and its correct pronunciation rhymes with "gene" ("meem"). "Mem" is also an alternate pronunciation. If you pronounce it "mim", you're a newfag. If you pronounce it "meemee" or "mehmeh", you're a faggot.

Copypasta may be considered a meme when it is so common that the original and all mutations can recognize be recognized by the masses.

List of memes and terms

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• *Translator's Note
• /a/
• /a/day
• /b/
• /co/
• /d/
• /k/
• /m/
• /mlp/
• /o/
• /r/
• /rs/
• /v/
• /z/
• 3D Custom Girl
• 4chan mod memes
• 4chan Party Van
• 4chan Wordfilters
• 8U
• 9000
• ???????
• A manly but sensitive fox
• A master is out
• Abuse hand
• Admiral Ackbar
• Advice Dog
• AERIS DIES
• Age and Sage
• AIDS
• AIIIR
• Aishiteruze Baby
• Akagi
• Akanishi Jin
• Alexander Rybak
• All of Cosine's vaginas look horribly infected
• All your base are belong to us
• AMIRITE?
• An Hero
• Andy
• Andy Sweetie
• Angry Marines
• Anon's nice day
• Anonymous
• Anonymous of (place)
• Anonymous Posting
• AOL Police
• Apple
• ARCADE BUMSTEAD
• Are they still on Namek?
• ASCII art
• Assdip-Chan
• Avril Lavigne
• Babelfish
• BABY FUCK BABY FUCK
• Barrel roll
• Bart, get out! I'm piss!
• Bel-Air
• BLACK PEOPLE ARE VAMPIRES
• Blackbob Niggerpants
• Blank check
• Blockatiel
• Blue Ozzy
• Boromir
• Brazil
• Break the support disk
• Bricks
• Bridget
• Brushie Bat
• C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER
• Cabbage
• Cancer
• Candlejack
• CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL
• Captain Picard
• Castlevania
• Cats
• Centipedes, in my vagina?
• Chii turns on, Chii turns off
• Chikane Himemiya
• Child Abduction
• Chocolate Rain
• Chris Benoit
• Cockmongler
• Convention
• Cool Dude
• Cosplay
• Courage Wolf
• Cover-Tom
• Covercat
• CP
• Cracky-chan
• Cute, not pedo
• Deaths of 4chan
• Decantering
• Delayclose.jpg
• Deliberately broken links
• Delicious Cake
• Dental Plan
• DESU
• Devil Machine
• Diamond
• Dickgirl
• DINOBOT HAS SPOKEN, MY RIGID GRILL STRUCTURE
• Disaster Kid
• Divided by zero
• DO IT FAGGOT
• DO NOT WANT
• Donut Penis
• DOOM: Repercussions of Evil
• Double Princess
• DRACULA PENIS
• Dragonforce
• Drama
• DRR... DRR... DRR...
• Duckroll
• Dunno lol ¯\(º o)/¯
• E-penis
• Emo
• Emotes
• Epic Fail Guy
• Excuse me wtf r u doin
• F5
• Facepalm
• Fag
• Fansubbers = stupid
• Fanta Sea
• FBI
• FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
• Fgsfds
• Fixed
• Forever alone
• Fortune
• Four Chan Magazine
• FUCK THAT! You're going home!
• Furry
• Futallaby
• Gaijin 4koma
• GAR
• Gaston
• Gb2
• Gendo Ikari
• Genuflect
• George Zimmer
• GIF
• Giovanni
• GMask
• Good Naruto, you look kind of cool
• Grinbitch
• Guitar Ninjas
• Gununus
• HA HA HA! Oh, wow
• HABEEB IT
• Happy Negro
• Headsigh
• Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Hive Mind
• Homo thread
• Hopkin Green Frog
• I see what you did there.
• IF THIS IS TRUE THEN HERE IS WHAT YOU DO
• ILLEGAL IN CANADA
• Image macro
• In before
• Internet
• Internet. Serious Business.
• IRC
• It's a trap
• Jailbait
• Jake J. Brahm
• Jay Naylor
• Jun Watarase
• Kansai-ben
• Leekspin
• LOL
• LOL WUT
• Loli
• Lolicatgirls
• Longcat
• LURK MORE
• Lust penis
• Mai Waifu
• Memes
• Misty
• Moderators
• Moonspeak
• Moot
• MS Paint
• Multi-Track Drifting
• My Little Pony
• Nanomachines
• Natsuki Orsiko
• Nevada-tan
• Never Forget
• Newfag Summer
• Nice Boat
• Nigra
• No girls on the Internet
• NO U
• Nutbladder
• O RLY?
• Octonator
• OH GOD SHANA IS HOT
• OH SHI
• Original content
• Original poster
• Overchan
• Party Hard
• Pedobear
• Pee Fight
• Photoshop
• Picture Related
• PIG DISGUSTING
• Pimp
• Plot armor
• Pool's Closed
• Poonmaster
• Portal
• Potent Potables
• Promotions
• Push Button Receive Bacon
• QUALITY
• Raptor Jesus
• Razor the Hedgehog
• Rei-chan
• Richard Stallman
• Rip Taylor
• Ronery
• Rules
• SaiGar 2008
• Sanyo chan
• Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
• School Days
• Seaking (FUCK YEAH!)
• Sharpie in Pooper
• SHOOP DA WHOOP
• Sinistar
• Sky's the limit
• Slaughterama
• Slipshine
• Slowpoke
• Snakes
• Spengbab
• Steve Irwin
• Stick it in her pooper
• Technology
• The Caturday Nap
• The Internet is Serious Business
• The Muppet Show
• Theme days
• TIME PARADOX
• TITS OR GTFO
• Tl;dr
• Touchdown! Thurman Thomas!
• Traps
• Tripcode
• Tsundere
• Tuffdawgz
• V
• Verihand and Verisign
• VTEC JUST KICKED IN YO
• VTech Massacre
• W.T. Snacks
• Waha
• Weeaboo
• White Knight
• WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
• XBOX IS HUEG
• Xenon
• Y HALO 2 U
• Y HELO THAR
• Yami
• Yandere
• Yaranaika
• Year of the *
• Yotsuba
• You should be able to solve this.
• Your resistance only makes my penis harder!
• Yume Nikki
• Zoom

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