memehood en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From meme + -hood.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The state of being a meme.
[…] I’m fascinated by the response to the video, by its eternal life in online memehood.
2017, Anthony Palumbi, Blood Plagues and Endless Raids: A Hundred Million Lives in the World of Warcraft, Chicago Review Press, →ISBN:Then the innocent question hit meme-hood, being applied to every new computer or gadget in the news.
2008 September 15, Mark Milian, “New ‘Crysis’ has same issues”, in Chicago Tribune, 162nd year, number 259, page 3, columns 1–2:This exercise in surrealism was destined for memehood.
2014, William Poundstone, Rock Breaks Scissors: A Practical Guide to Outguessing and Outwitting Almost Everybody, →ISBN:Key ingredients for memehood, generally, are the rapid and spontaneous sharing of the thing and some sort of cultural context.
2021 June 17, Stefanie Pettit, “Navigating the meme streets of social media”, in The Spokesman-Review, 139th volume, number 9, page N4, column 1:The original Steamed Hams scene appeared on a Simpson’s^([sic]) episode from the 1990s, and somehow developed a cult following by its reruns, that turned it into a meme. It’s been reworked into fanfiction and fully reanimated in the style of 1960s Soviet cartoons. It’s been overdubbed with opera and recut to resemble a Criterion Collection DVD of a François Truffaut movie. There’s embroidery of it. It’s surpassed memehood and become an artistic movement of its own.
2023 March 19, Talia Felix, “Steaming a Good Ham”, in Online Etymology Dictionary, archived from the original on 20 Mar 2023:And hence the actual details of the representing are sometimes just as much a candidate for memehood as the content represented.
1995, Daniel C[lement] Dennett, Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life, →ISBN, page 359: