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- Milner, Ryan M. (7 October 2016). The World Made Meme: Public Conversations and Participatory Media (1 ed.). The MIT Press. doi:10.7551/mitpress/9780262034999.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-262-03499-9.
- Nowotny, Joanna; Reidy, Julian (31 December 2022). Memes - Formen und Folgen eines Internetphänomens [Memes: The Form and Impact of an Internet Phenomenon] (in German). transcript Verlag. pp. 51–110. doi:10.1515/9783839461242-003. ISBN 978-3-8394-6124-2. Retrieved 18 November 2025. (An English edition also exists but is not yet available online.)
- On the Origins of Memes by Means of Fringe Web Communities
- DAVISON, P. (2012). The Language of Internet Memes. In Mandiberg M. (Ed.), The Social Media Reader (pp. 120-134). NYU Press. Retrieved November 2, 2020, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt16gzq5m.13
- Where Are Our Covid Memes Now?
- https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3998/mpub.12013603.13?seq=2

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Change "An Internet meme, or meme" to "An Internet meme, or simply "meme"". ~2025-40948-68 (talk) 18:47, 15 December 2025 (UTC)[]

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Not done: No reason given for the proposed change; the existing wording seems fine to me. Day Creature (talk) 19:15, 15 December 2025 (UTC)[]

The first image on this page is a GRAPH

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on a page about memes, the first image appears in the second subsection of the article, and it is a GRAPH. A boring one, too. What happened to taste? ~2025-43875-80 (talk) 16:20, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[]

"Great Meme Reset" listed at Redirects for discussion

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The redirect Great Meme Reset has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 January 8 § Great Meme Reset until a consensus is reached. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 16:37, 8 January 2026 (UTC)[]

"The Great Meme Reset" listed at Redirects for discussion

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The redirect The Great Meme Reset has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 January 8 § The Great Meme Reset until a consensus is reached. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 16:37, 8 January 2026 (UTC)[]

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In the History section, the phrase “the Chinese social network TikTok” is used. This should be changed to just, “the social network TikTok,” as it being Chinese holds no meaning to the article and makes it seem anti-Chinese for some reason, as it’s just about memes.

Similarly, in the paragraph on NFTs in the copyright section, both the phrases “was used hundreds of times without permission” and “sell the original copy” are greatly misleading, and should be changed to “had attained widespread internet usage” and “sell a copy” instead. ↑ Reasoning: Saying ‘hundreds’ implies that the meme was far less popular than it was, and ‘without permission’ confers the idea that most memes reach their popularity with permission. In addition, the original copy of the image is a digital file. Because of how digital files work, unless you sell the device it was taken on, you’re selling a copy. I understand that the article is attempting to be impartial towards NFTs but it comes across as biased and, frankly, extremely misleading towards the matter at hand. ^[1] ^[2] Into another nightmare (talk) 05:24, 20 January 2026 (UTC)[]

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Done with slightly different wording for the changes to the "Non-fungible tokens" section. Day Creature (talk) 18:09, 20 January 2026 (UTC)[]

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