Now That We’ve Hit Peak Meme, Let’s Take A Deep Dive Into Meme Culture

No One Pee In The Meme Pool

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For a meme to survive and live a long and successful lifespan depends on its meme pool. Seriously, that’s an actual scientific term. A meme pool, like a gene pool, is the total of all memes in a population. Now, we think of a meme pool as the entire internet, but even the internet can have different meme pools like Wikipedia pages, social media pages, blogs, and more.

Back to Dawkins, in the old school version of a meme pool, memes can be exchanged in a mall or school. The success of a meme depends on its meme pool. Something could be very funny to users on Instagram but might not be as funny to Facebook users.