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antimeme

noun

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from μῑμέομαι
  2. prefixed as antimeme — “anti- + meme”

Definitions

  1. A meme deployed to nullify or protect against another meme.

    • As an antimeme to both Christianity and these secular dominant ideologies, humanism in the West was, by the middle of the century able to gain dominance in what had become, effectively, a vacant niche.
    • Notable as well are periodic claims that memetics will make the world a better place, by creating an antimeme meme which will teach us to defend ourselves against the ravages of the selfish memes, ...

  2. A unit of information that prevents itself from being spread, either due to its contents,…

    A unit of information that prevents itself from being spread, either due to its contents, (e.g, a password or encrypted document,) or a secondary mechanism that prevents its transmission. (e.g, by erasing itself from any mind that it enters.)

    • SCP-055 is a "self-keeping secret" or "anti-meme". Information about SCP-055's physical appearance as well as its nature, behavior, and origins is self-classifying.
    • An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, discourages or prevents people from spreading it.

  3. An image macro which intentionally subverts one's expectations by not including a joke

    An image macro which intentionally subverts one's expectations by not including a joke; a meme antijoke.

    • my favorite parts of these viral memes are the antimemes that appear after we all get sick of them lol

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for antimeme. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA