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A mini-meme, also referred to as a "sub-meme" or "meta-meme", is a meme from/within another meme, or the media from which said meme originated.

In other words, it's basically a somewhat-popular-but-not-as-well-known meme that originates from another popular meme, much like the offspring of celebrities who bite off their famous parent's success.

There are also other definitions of what a mini-meme is. A mini-meme can refer to a meme that is too small or not as well-known that it doesn't deserve to be recognized as an ordinary meme; being labeled as a sub-class meme. An example would be phrases/quotes (i.e. "What is this I don't even"). Another way of defining a mini-meme would be a meme that has spawned from smaller communities on the internet, such as chans catered to a specific fandom, and is exclusively used in that particular community (i.e. "Delicious Doll Joints", which is a mini-meme used in Desuchan).

Many mini-memes have their roots from YouTube Poop and YTMND.

Examples

• Advice Aeralik, which is an Advice Dog variation of Aeralik, a mini-meme exclusive to EQ2Flames
• For great justice or "MOVE ZIG", originates from All Your Base Are Belong To Us
• Furseiseki, a 7chan meme, which is a yiffed-out version of Suiseiseki
• General channer misspellings of words like moar, evar, teh, etc.
• Many memes that started off from YTMND pages
• Other exploitable content from the media of YouTube Poop Memes (i.e. "Or was it the bagel?", a mini-meme spawned from the Mama Luigi meme.)
• Some of the many memes from Touhou

Images

The force push .gif, an infamous mini-meme

~Yiffu

Related Pages

4chan

Meme

YouTube

YTMND

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