meta-meme

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.

"Why is the minion saying 'Hey Beter'?"
"It's a meta-meme, you dip."

by pitnicker April 5, 2017

meta-meme

A meta-meme is a meme after it's gone through the meme circle of life. It means that the meme was popular a long time ago, turned into a normie meme and died, and has now proceeded to resurrect as an extremely edgy and funny meme. Meta-meme can also just be spelled metameme, or for short, meta

i.e. "Bro that damn daniel edit you made is so funny"
"I know right, it's a meta-meme now"

by yourmom1738 May 22, 2017

meta-meme

Meta-Meme is all, Choking on a clown, Anne Frank, Cancer, Corn-On-The-Cob, Poster, Japan, Apples, and Chef. A meta-meme is everything you could ever want. it will cure your mothers testicular cancer, and it will cure your dads EbolAids. I am so alone and want to die.

Why didn't you do your homework? Dude, It's a meta-meme

That doesn't make sense. Its a meta-meme

by BillCosbyChild420666911 June 24, 2016

meta-memelord

Meme lover who takes all memes ironic.

*sees meme*
great irony in this meme
*sees another meme*
more ironly weeewo
*sees even more memes*
OWOWOWOOWOW SO IRONIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-wow this guy takes all memes literally ironic? what a meta-memelord

by TavrosNitro April 10, 2016

Metameme

An unstated conclusion.

A counterpart to enthymeme: an unstated premise.

My phone's battery is almost dead. I have a meeting in an hour.
The metameme is the unstated conclusion that I should find a charger for my phone.

Sometimes the conclusion is an unpleasant or unflattering conclusion that the speaker doesn't wish to convey directly:
You've lost weight! You look so much better now.
Metameme: you were overweight and unattractive before.

by TownWombat April 22, 2024

Metamemetic Theory

The study of the higher-order rules and conditions that govern which memes spread and how meme ecosystems evolve. It doesn't look at individual memes, but at the "physics" of the memetic environment: platform algorithms that boost outrage, cognitive biases that make us susceptible to certain ideas, network structures that accelerate virality, and the evolution of anti-memes (ideas designed to suppress other ideas). It’s the ecology and epidemiology of thought itself.

Example: A Metamemetic Theory analysis of a political election wouldn't focus on a specific campaign slogan (a meme). Instead, it would model how the algorithmic amplification of anger on social media creates a fitness landscape where simplistic, divisive memes outperform complex, nuanced ones, systematically shaping the entire informational environment in which the election occurs.

by Nammugal February 5, 2026