What's a meme?
Meme rhymes with seem. A meme is any combination of words and/or still or moving pictures that should be, as students say, "relatable." Any one meme has countless variations, or iterations, which is one reason they spread so quickly because they can be applied to so many different scenarios while also keeping the same format or main image / words in each version. Memes rely on a profound understanding of pop culture and/or other memes and thus are polysemous, offering layer-on-layer of meaning.