And, not to get too meta, just look at how the idea of a meme (itself a meme) has changed. Funny online memes are like digital genes, carrying information from person to person, being altered and progressed as they go. Here are ten such memes, those that were so dank they changed history. With obvious placement on or around high-traffic and high-visibility areas, many graffiti phrases spread from creator to viewer to creator, just as online memes do today. Serving as the inspiration for a major currency system, the doge meme proves the potential of memes to effect sweeping change on previously stagnant systems.

Source: The Nation July 11, 2021 07:07 UTC