Video sharing also created memes such as 'Turn Down for What' and the 'Harlem Shake'. Around this time, rickrolling became popular and the link to this video was sent around via email or other messaging sites. When YouTube was released in 2005, video memes became popular. At the time, memes were just short clips that were shared between people in Usenet forums. Internet memes grew as a concept in the mid-1990s. Furthermore, Internet memes carry an additional property that ordinary memes do not: Internet memes leave a footprint in the media through which they propagate (for example, social networks) that renders them traceable and analyzable. Dawkins explained that Internet memes are thus a 'hijacking of the original idea', the very idea of a meme having mutated and evolved in this new direction. In 2013, Dawkins characterized an Internet meme as being a meme deliberately altered by human creativity-distinguished from biological genes and his own pre-Internet concept of a meme, which involved mutation by random change and spreading through accurate replication as in Darwinian selection. The concept of the Internet meme was first proposed by Mike Godwin in the June 1993 issue of Wired. The word meme was coined by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene as an attempt to explain how ideas replicate, mutate, and evolve (memetics). If you do use the sounds in a project a link back to this site would be greatly appreciated 🥰 About memes If you would like any sounds added please use the contact form. A huge collection of memes sounds that will be updated daily, This soundboard contains over 300 sounds.

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