You’re not wrong, it’s more “sharing to the masses”, emails can be sent to anyone, pictures online can be seen by anyone, texts now. But I do think it has to be “online”, I don’t think paintings and town criers and jesters quite meet “meme”. But images of them sure would -.-
But masses can also just be your circle of friends, online or irl.
Memes started with those email chains people kept sharing around.
A meme is something funny you share, usually in a picture, but even images of texts are memes.
Okay, so we’re at the “torches & onions” part of the timeline.
Hilarious.
You’re not wrong, it’s more “sharing to the masses”, emails can be sent to anyone, pictures online can be seen by anyone, texts now. But I do think it has to be “online”, I don’t think paintings and town criers and jesters quite meet “meme”. But images of them sure would -.-
But masses can also just be your circle of friends, online or irl.
Memes are the cheap & easy to understand pamphlets demanding that the king has his head mounted on a plaque with a funny quote attached?