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

The Lifecycle Of A Meme

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Internet memes originate and spread in a pretty routine form now. The general consensus is that most early memes begin in the deep, dark catacombs of 4Chan. The users of 4Chan are notoriously awful, but they are the ones to popularize a lot of the earliest memes.

Now, most memes begin on Reddit or Twitter, then they spread to other social media sites like Tumblr, Instagram, and Facebook. This lifecycle is well known to avid internet users and content creators. You have to go searching to find the freshest memes because once they get to major social media sites, they’re probably already dead.