An Internet meme is an idea that is propagated through the World Wide Web. The idea may take the form of a hyperlink, video, picture, website, hashtag, or just a word or phrase. The meme may spread from person to person via social networks, blogs, direct email, news sources, or other web-based services.
An Internet meme may stay the same or may evolve over time, by chance or through commentary, imitations, parody, or by incorporating news accounts about itself. Internet memes can evolve and spread extremely rapidly, sometimes reaching world-wide popularity and vanishing within a few days.
Their rapid growth and impact has caught the attention of both researchers and industry.3 Academically, researchers model how they evolve and predict which memes will survive and spread throughout the Web. Commercially, they are used in viral marketing where they are an inexpensive form of mass advertising.
Čitav svet i novo inernet društvo je prihvatilo koncept memija. Jedino izgleda ovde par autora muku muči i sprečava druge da shvate šta su memiji i da ih deli sa drugim poštovaocima memija.
