Etymology

antimeme

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Today it means: A meme deployed to nullify or protect against another meme. Full definition →

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From anti- + meme. In the sense of "an image macro which intentionally subverts one's expectations", first recorded in 2009 and now chiefly associated with the r/antimeme subreddit, created February 8, 2012.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.