However, this does not apply to the music itself, as the release date of older music already places it into a scene and period, which makes it easily identifiable. While it is important to acknowledge the general time and space where music memes originated, it is necessary to note that the form does not follow a fixed evolution. This was the most popular form memes took on the 4chan platform. A more comprehensive compilation of such (with context) can be found here.Īn example of an image macro, with text often being superimposed onto an image. Some videos (and music videos) in and of themselves became popular memes, such as Toto’s “ Africa” or Smash Mouth’s “ All Star”, with these particular subset of songs standing as some of the most enduring memes today. Image based memes (mainly image macros) were posted on the imageboard site 4chan (where the music related /mu/ subscription often regarded as the highest quality subsection), while video memes started to gain traction on YouTube.
However, it was not until the mid-2000s that internet memes would start reaching mainstream audiences. The word “meme” originated from Richard Dawkins’ 1974 novel The Selfish Gene, with the word being reinterpreted when the internet meme became a concept in the mid-1990s.
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