Contextualizebeta

memeification

noun

Etymology

From meme + -ification.

  1. derived from μῑμέομαι
  2. suffixed as memeification — “meme + ification”

Definitions

  1. The process of forming an Internet meme out of something.

    • “Trump Draws” was one of the earliest memeifications of newly-sworn President Trump, capturing the childlike delight that (at first) attended his signing of fancy documents with spiffy pens.
    • “Letterboxd has successfully tapped into the Gen Z phenomenon of ‘the memeification of everything’,” explains Rachel Lee of The Digital Fairy, a creative agency specialising in internet and youth culture.
    • “This,” Barbarin emphasized, “is what the memeification of politics looks like in practice.”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for memeification. 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