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[–] Krono@lemmy.today 22 points 20 hours ago (5 children)

Any self-respecting "meme historian" would refer to themselves as a memeologist.

They would know the history of the word "meme" and that it is explicitly intended to be analogous with the word "gene".

We don't call them gene historians, we call them genealogists.

[–] affenlehrer@feddit.org 4 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

What about geneticists? Can you crispr/cas memes?

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 20 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] affenlehrer@feddit.org 6 points 15 hours ago

Beautiful abomination

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