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-->-- '''Top Dollar''', ''Film/TheCrow''

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-->-- '''Top Dollar''', ''Film/TheCrow''
''Film/TheCrow1994''
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->"I think that a new kind of replicator has recently emerged [...]. It still in its infancy, still drifting clumsily about in its primeval soup, but already it is achieving evolutionary change at a rate that leaves the old gene panting far behind. The new soup is the soup of human culture. We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of ''imitation''. 'Mimeme' comes from a suitable Greek root, but I want a monosyllable that sounds a bit like 'gene'. I hope my Classicist friends will forgive me if I abbreviate mimeme to ''meme''."

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->"I think that a new kind of replicator has recently emerged [...]. It is still in its infancy, still drifting clumsily about in its primeval soup, but already it is achieving evolutionary change at a rate that leaves the old gene panting far behind. The new soup is the soup of human culture. We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of ''imitation''. 'Mimeme' comes from a suitable Greek root, but I want a monosyllable that sounds a bit like 'gene'. I hope my Classicist friends will forgive me if I abbreviate mimeme to ''meme''."
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->"I think that a new kind of replicator has recently emerged [...]. It still in its infancy, still drifting clumsily about in its primeval soup, but already it is achieving evolutionary change at a rate that leaves the old gene panting far behind. The new soup is the soup of human culture. We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of ''imitation''. 'Mimeme' comes from a suitable Greek root, but I want a monosyllable that sounds a bit like 'gene'. I hope my Classicist friends will forgive me if I abbreviate mimeme to ''meme''."
-->-- '''Creator/RichardDawkins''', [[TropeNamer providing the trope's name]] in ''The Selfish Gene''
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Also make a catchy chorus; something that can be repeated.\\\

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Also make a catchy chorus; something that can could be repeated.\\\
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Sing multiple layers; it helps if you [[SugarWiki/AwesomeArt animate it]].

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Sing multiple layers; it helps if you [[SugarWiki/AwesomeArt animate it]].''

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->'''[[ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} Jon]]:''' Have you ever made a simple observation while reading the paper, only to have a sinking feeling that a bunch of nerds will revisit it endlessly?
->'''Garfield:''' No, but do you know what I could really go for right now? A Dippin' Dots.
-->--''Webcomic/SquareRootOfMinusGarfield'', [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4090 Five-Minute Garfield]]

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->'''[[ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} Jon]]:''' Have you ever made a simple observation while reading the paper, only to have a sinking feeling that a bunch of nerds will revisit it endlessly?
->'''Garfield:'''
endlessly?\\
'''Garfield:'''
No, but do you know what I could really go for right now? A Dippin' Dots.
-->--''Webcomic/SquareRootOfMinusGarfield'', -->-- ''Webcomic/SquareRootOfMinusGarfield'', [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4090 Five-Minute Garfield]]Garfield]]

->''Just follow the recipe and gather the ingredients\\
Pick a topic people talk about on social media\\
Don't violate the terms of service, or your vid will be deleted\\
Also make a catchy chorus; something that can be repeated.\\\
[[TheInternetIsForCats CATS! CATS]]! [[DeliberatelyCuteChild Laughing babies]]! [[{{Slapstick}} People falling]]! [[MsFanservice Hot, hot ladies]]!\\
[[PreciousPuppy Sleepy puppies]]! Dancing babies! Kittens, [[SillySimian monkeys]], [[BestKnownForTheFanservice more hot ladies]]!\\
Put a lot of words in one verse, careful to annunciate it\\
Sing multiple layers; it helps if you [[SugarWiki/AwesomeArt animate it]].
-->-- '''WebVideo/{{Tobuscus}}''', "[[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zzKFbUxYJys&pp=ygUKdmlyYWwgc29uZw%3D%3D VIRAL SONG]]"

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