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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.

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Airplane! is the perfect comedy (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/memes@sopuli.xyz

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[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

Mel Brooks sort of put the fork in Westerns. They were maybe dying anyway, but after Blazing Saddles they had to change pretty significantly.

He also got everyone to laugh at all the little polite racist themes that were super common in Westerns. He hung a pretty big lamp on that stuff. You couldn't do it again, because we'd all just laughed at how stupid it was.

As for people who say it's too offensive for today's audience, idk that they ever realized they were being laughed at, not with.