exactly, the meme is the viral image, not some text based joke lol, inertia was wrong

the first meme was killroy was here according to some but there's been plenty more

the bible is a meme, jesus is a meme

the letter A and arabic numbers are a meme

the alphabet from the phoenicians are THE meme

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilroy_was_here

This actually may have been the FIRST real meme in modern times simply because it was during a time when people were actually traveling around the world en mass for w2 and there was a lot of commotion, i remember seeing this in a bathroom in the london museum in 2006, so yeah its crazy how the same social stuff online now was visible with newspapers and diffusive paper information blah blah blah blah