memeverse

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English

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Etymology

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From meme +‎ -verse.

Noun

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memeverse (uncountable)

  1. The sphere of Internet memes.
    Synonym: memosphere
    • 2012 June 4, Matt Labash, “The Meme Generation”, in The Weekly Standard, volume 17, number 36, Washington, D.C.: Clarity Media Group, →ISSN, page 26:
      When it comes to the memeverse, the academy isn’t playing. This is serious business. [] In fact, some scholar somewhere, as we speak, is probably ginning up a doctoral dissertation on Goatse (a pioneer of Internet meme culture who is famous for planting his own two hands in the deep recesses of his derriere).
    • 2017 December 27, Michael Andor Brodeur, “The meme class of 2017”, in The Boston Globe[1]:
      Like the dream state, the memeverse has a way of assembling familiar colors, shapes, and forms from the reality we more consciously occupy; but the images it conjures and captures (and captions) are unstable — they change shape, or shift premise, or take off on a tangent and turn into something else.