Cartoon vs Meme - What's the difference?
cartoon | meme |
(comics) A humorous drawing, often with a caption, or a strip of such drawings.
(comics) A drawing satirising current public figures.
(arts) An artist's preliminary sketch.
(animation) An animated piece of film which is often but not exclusively humorous.
* 12 July 2012 , Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
A diagram in a scientific concept.
Any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another in a comparable way to the transmission of genes.
*1976 , (Richard Dawkins), The Selfish Gene :
*:Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches.
*2002 , Rita Carter, Exploring Consciousness , p. 242:
*:Related memes tend to form mutually supporting meme-complexes such as religions, political ideologies, scientific theories, and New Age dogmas.
(Internet, slang) Something that is copied and circulated online with slight adaptions, including quizzes, basic pictures, video templates etc. A meme can be a photo or artwork, usually with text, often codified with a distinct white block lettering text on the image. If a particular, standardized image is used, there is a protocol to how it should be used
* 2005 , "darklily", OT: Livejournal'' (discussion on Internet newsgroup ''soc.sexuality.general )
*2012 , Greg Jarboe, You Tube and Video Marketing , 2nd edition:
*:The idea was to append Keyboard Cat to the end of a blooper video to "play" that person offstage after a mistake or gaffe, like getting the hook in the days of vaudeville. The meme became popular, Ashton Kutcher tweeted about it to more than 1 million followers, and more than 4,000 such videos have now been made.
*2013 , The Guardian , (headline), 8 Feb 2013:
*:Harlem Shake meme : the new Gangnam Style?
As nouns the difference between cartoon and meme
is that cartoon is cartoon (comic strip) while meme is mother.cartoon
English
(wikipedia cartoon)Noun
(en noun)- The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon , lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.
Synonyms
* (humorous drawing or strip) comic strip, strip cartoon * (satire of public figures) caricature, political cartoonAnagrams
* ----meme
English
(wikipedia meme)Noun
(en noun)- I do...but my journal is a mess. It's mostly filled with memes and my bitching about a house I am building.