Memehood

And hence the actual details of the representing are sometimes just as much a candidate for memehood as the content represented.

Then the innocent question hit meme-hood, being applied to every new computer or gadget in the news.

This exercise in surrealism was destined for memehood.

[…] I’m fascinated by the response to the video, by its eternal life in online memehood.

Key ingredients for memehood, generally, are the rapid and spontaneous sharing of the thing and some sort of cultural context.

The original Steamed Hams scene appeared on a Simpson’s^([sic]) episode from the 1990s, and somehow developed a cult following by its reruns, that turned it into a meme. It’s been reworked into fanfiction and fully reanimated in the style of 1960s Soviet cartoons. It’s been overdubbed with opera and recut to resemble a Criterion Collection DVD of a François Truffaut movie. There’s embroidery of it. It’s surpassed memehood and become an artistic movement of its own.