Most memes are photos with captions that are supposed to be either funny or used as a way to ridicule a human behavior.
Memes can also be videos or verbal expressions.
Memes are a worldwide social phenomenon, according to Lifewire; they get spread around social media like flu and cold viruses.
Cecil Adams from theStraightDope.com said that memes are “either really, deep or really, really obvious.”
The world “meme” was coined by Richard Dawkins, an evolutionary biologist in 1976.
And comes from the Greek word “mimema,” which means “something imitated,” according to the American Heritage Dictionary.
