The mind in your past has ceased to exist. The content of that email remains in one mind, it just a different one, by your definition.

They do need to receive it and read since it has to at the very least enter their minds and ideally they have to think it’s funny/interesting/worth sharing/etc.

There’s still only one mind involved in your scenario.

I don’t think I agree. I’d define an “internet meme” as an inside joke (in the very broadest of senses) shared on the internet. There needs to be a certain number of people who agree that it’s funny and worth repeating and propagating for it to qualify. Like the original idea definition of a “meme”, really, where an idea only becomes a cultural unit once it leaps from one mind to another. Also, Milhouse is not a meme.

True. Alrighty, I’ll accept that in the very original Dawkinsian sense, this can be considered a meme, if you squint. I still think it goes against the spirit of the community because the context is the internet in which the word means something else.

I know what Dawkins wrote but that definition is so all-encompassing to be unhelpful outside a specific area of discussion which is why in everyday parlance it’s not used.

I was there, Gandalf, I was there 3000 years ago. It wasn’t a meme.

Please enlighten me as to how this counts in any way as a meme.

Edit: yes, except for, very specifically, the Dawkinsian sense, if one insists.

“I don’t know what it is but I think it’s funny”? What?

… oh yeah, there’s no yellow paint. Huh. I hadn’t noticed.

I know exactly what you mean but I’m the wrong peson to talk about that because I adore Thirteen and everything she does. Except for when she humanely kills spiders.

I mean, you could read the thing.

Since we’ve obviously all read the article before commenting, I thought I’d post a short snippet as a reminder that the author has considered the question.

Would the market for organic food be the behemoth that it is if the choice of label had been something like “synthetic pesticide-free”?⁷

Edit: direct quote from article

Clavicular x JD Vance x Jake Paul

How to tag this on AO3? Does it count as a crackship?

In fact, bad for their overall health.

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excellent 5/7 perfect score no notes

Sounds like the end of season 1, no?

You did do the office job though, yes?

Sure, try again over here. Just make sure not to have a meltdown again.