If O’Brien transports a meme to a new community does the transporter transmit the original pixels or are the pixels copied and then the original destroyed?

WE ARE THE MEMERS. YOUR MEME WILL BE ASSIMILATED. ITS MEMETIC UNIQUENESS WILL BE ADDED TO OUR COLLECTIVE MEMERY. RESISTANCE IS NOT A MEME.

When Riker attempts to purge his computer history, all but the most essential systems have to shutdown in order to conserve processing power for the next 18 hours.