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The first meme format was “Distracted Caveman.” Timeless.
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The first meme format was “Distracted Caveman.” Timeless.
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The word 'meme' was coined by Richard Dawkins in 1976, and internet memes spread in the 1990s and 2000s. There is no 'Distracted Caveman' as the first meme format.
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