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It's not really, but what a meme is has kind of transcended to "any image on the internet".
Memes have to be pictures?
"Birds aren't real" is a meme in my book.
Fair enough. I mostly just meant to highlight that it's kinda used for anything on the internet lately.
I remember reading the selfish gene maybe a decade ago... iirc a meme is really just any idea, that like a gene, can replicate and spread, and has a "fitness" to its environment that means it either spreads easier, or dies out. It applies to any idea / mental construct, from art, music, even to sayings, philosophies or moods.