I think the middle cover would make a good one for a special edition if they ever do a english version.
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Show posts MenuQuote from: Thunders McQueen on 11 February, 2013, 01:12:43 PM
"Meme" is as much the process as the subject, Tips. Basically put, religion is a meme because it's the process of spreading an idea like an infection, but (insert name of current pop singer) is also a meme, as is Star Wars, X Factor, or anything else that develops an awareness in the public consciousness after "going viral" - meme is just a fancy way of saying "a notion or a bit of knowledge that has been passed from one person to another", and you are correct that text-speak has been after-the-fact rationalised as a meme, but it isn't an attempt to excuse it, it's just a label used to explain the scientific process of people copying each other's behavior. Correct spelling and grammar, being something we learn, is just as much a meme.
In the context of this thread, the meme is an in-joke combined with several other in-jokes to pretty much be baffling in isolation, much as the board's own in-jokes* would be baffling to complete newcomers, but it could be worse - you want to take a butchers at YTMND, a comedy website that comes with its own wiki to explain why you should be laughing, usually because someone has made a reference to something that existed once. It's pretty much Family Guy taken to its logical conclusion.
* Sc**o, "like driving a car into a bus queue", arsom, etc