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countermeme

countermeme noun: a meme posted in opposition to or as a mockery of another meme.

Noun

countermeme (plural countermemes)

  1. A meme posted in opposition to or as a mockery of another meme.
    • But the GOP and its phalanxes were ready with a countermeme. Enter Unskewedpolls.com. That website, run by Dean Chambers, a Republican blogger and Romney supporter from Virginia, claims to correct polls that Chambers says give too much weight to Democratic votership. Six-point Obama leads turn into...2012 October 4, John Timpane, “Political polls ignite meme war between Democrats and Republicans”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, P.A.: The Philadelphia Inquirer, LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC...
    • Replies to the tweets tried to undermine the image by posting other memes countering the original's idea, or by mocking it. In this case, three countermemes were posted, all hijacking and repurposing the original meme, other memes posted by the ADL, or Matt Furie himself.2018 June 14, Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon, Axel Pérez Trujillo Diniz, “Colonizing Pepe: Internet Memes as Cyberplaces”, in Space and Culture, volume 24, number 1, SAGE Publishing, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC

Examples of countermeme in a sentence

  • But the GOP and its phalanxes were ready with a countermeme.2012 October 4, John Timpane, “Political polls ignite meme war between Democrats and Republicans”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer...
  • The post brought in half a million likes, and launched a wave of countermemes under the same audio tag, a slowed down version of Dissolve's familiar hook.2020 July 18, Russell Brandom, “TikTok turned his song into a creepy meme — until fans took it back”, in The Verge, archived from the...

Forms of countermeme

pluralcountermemes

Origin of countermeme

From counter- + meme.

Questions about countermeme

What does countermeme mean?
Countermeme means a meme posted in opposition to or as a mockery of another meme.
How do you use countermeme in a sentence?
But the GOP and its phalanxes were ready with a countermeme.
What part of speech is countermeme?
Countermeme is a noun.
What is the plural of countermeme?
The plural of countermeme is countermemes.

Words near countermeme in the dictionary

  1. countermeetings
  2. countermeets
  3. countermelodic
  4. countermelodies
  5. countermelody
  6. countermeme
  7. countermemes
  8. countermemo
  9. countermemoir
  10. countermemoirs
  11. countermemoranda

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