“Meta” is a term for the dominant strategies, character choices, weapon builds, or playstyles that gives the player the highest chance of success in a particular game.
“The meta right now in Marvel Rivals is triple support characters and characters like Magneto and Emma Frost as tanks.”
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Meta is when someone acts overly self-aware and performative just to look good, often playing the “I’m so honest” card while subtly throwing their friends under the bus to avoid blame. A pick-me strategy disguised as reflection.
After the group project failed, Alex got all meta about it and somehow turned everyone else’s mistakes into a lesson about personal growth.
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Get the Meta mug.Meta-meme is a meme which transcends all other memes. It's ironic in content as well as form. At first it usually doesn't make much sense, but that's only because it's memeing itself. Once you understand its memetics, you understand the whole meme culture.
Usually very distorted, misspellt and shiny, a meta-meme combines elements of different mostly ironic or pre-ironic memes.
Usually very distorted, misspellt and shiny, a meta-meme combines elements of different mostly ironic or pre-ironic memes.
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Dude, that guy is such a fuckin' meta slave. He played Zoolock all the way to legend 3 season in a row.
by Diamond III Scrublady July 31, 2016
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he was a top tier character that basically was generally used by many in Brawl tournaments. His victory theme was burned into most of us.
he was a top tier character that basically was generally used by many in Brawl tournaments. His victory theme was burned into most of us.
by Hardstuck Internet January 3, 2015
Get the meta knight mug.The act of cringing at somebody who is deliberately aware of what makes you and most people cringe. They themselves may even cringe at it. Yet, that certain somebody continues to write an entire essay about it.
Journalist: Now before you start to cringe at the mere word 'tik tok', we did a meta-analysis of all tik toks published after covid-19 and found that a large portion of tik toks are actually more educational than the standard high school curriculum.
Me: Ugh, meta-cringe.
Me: Ugh, meta-cringe.
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