People on Tumblr Created A Meta Meme That Drove The Whole Internet Community Nuts

Although "meme" is a relatively new word, its not as modern as you imagine. The concept was made up back in 1976 by a biologist Richard Dawkins, and he used it in his book “The Selfish Gene.” He word “meme” is coined from the Greek word “mimeme” (a thing being imitated) and the word “gene” (genetics). His intention was to make a word to perfectly depict how ideas spread and mutate in similar ways as genes do.

And that is how the strange image formats and their countless variations got their name. The same as the animals evolved to the point that they look totally different from their ancestors, so are memes evolving, and they are often combined into some incredible forms. One Tumblr thread took it one step up and started a totally confusing grid meme: