Antimeme
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A meme deployed to nullify or protect against another meme.
"I know it's every citizen's civic duty to keep his antimeme vaccinations up to date. But some perverse streak inside me (possibly, now that I think about it, an anti-antimeme meme) made me keep postponing my appointment until it was just too late."
- 2 A unit of information that prevents itself from being spread, often by erasing itself from any mind that it enters.
"SCP-055 is a "self-keeping secret" or "anti-meme". Information about SCP-055's physical appearance as well as its nature, behavior, and origins is self-classifying."
- 3 An image macro which intentionally subverts one's expectations by not including a joke; a meme antijoke. Internet
"my favorite parts of these viral memes are the antimemes that appear after we all get sick of them lol"
Example
More examples"I know it's every citizen's civic duty to keep his antimeme vaccinations up to date. But some perverse streak inside me (possibly, now that I think about it, an anti-antimeme meme) made me keep postponing my appointment until it was just too late."
Etymology
From anti- + meme. In the sense of "an image macro which intentionally subverts one's expectations", first recorded in 2009 and now chiefly associated with the r/antimeme subreddit, created February 8, 2012.
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