memehood

English

Etymology

From meme +‎ -hood.

Noun

memehood (uncountable)

1. The state of being a meme.
   • 1995, Daniel C[lement] Dennett, Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life, →ISBN, page 359:

     And hence the actual details of the representing are sometimes just as much a candidate for memehood as the content represented.

   • 2008 September 15, Mark Milian, “New ‘Crysis’ has same issues”, in Chicago Tribune, 162nd year, number 259, page 3, columns 1–2:

     Then the innocent question hit meme-hood, being applied to every new computer or gadget in the news.

   • 2014, William Poundstone, Rock Breaks Scissors: A Practical Guide to Outguessing and Outwitting Almost Everybody, →ISBN:

     This exercise in surrealism was destined for memehood.

   • 2017, Anthony Palumbi, Blood Plagues and Endless Raids: A Hundred Million Lives in the World of Warcraft, Chicago Review Press, →ISBN:

     […] I’m fascinated by the response to the video, by its eternal life in online memehood.

   • 2021 June 17, Stefanie Pettit, “Navigating the meme streets of social media”, in The Spokesman-Review, 139th volume, number 9, page N4, column 1:

     Key ingredients for memehood, generally, are the rapid and spontaneous sharing of the thing and some sort of cultural context.

   • 2023 March 19, Talia Felix, “Steaming a Good Ham”, in Online Etymology Dictionary‎^[1], archived from the original on 2023-03-20:

     The original Steamed Hams scene appeared on a Simpson’s^[sic] episode from the 1990s, and somehow developed a cult following by its reruns, that turned it into a meme. It’s been reworked into fanfiction and fully reanimated in the style of 1960s Soviet cartoons. It’s been overdubbed with opera and recut to resemble a Criterion Collection DVD of a François Truffaut movie. There’s embroidery of it. It’s surpassed memehood and become an artistic movement of its own.