Explore what memes are and what the phenomenon of meme coins is all about.

The meme was thoroughly analyzed.

Good morning.
This is mitsui from web3researcher.

Today I will write a discussion about "meme coins". In the extreme, everything is consequential and depends on each specific case, but still, as a researcher, I wanted to try to verbalize this phenomenon in my own way. It is a hypothesis at this point and may change in the future, so I hope you will enjoy it as an opinion.

This article is not about "which meme coin will win," but about the phenomenon of meme coins, defining the phenomenon and discussing the possibilities.

"Table of Contents"
📕Dictionary Definitions｜What is a Meme
🧐Personal Definitions｜What is a Meme
👀Perspectives｜The Future of Memes
💥Perspectives｜Memes will be at the Heart of Business
💴Introduction｜What are Meme Coins
🧵Summary and Considerations｜Meme Coins are CultureFi, on the cutting edge of value creation.

📕辞書的定義｜What is a meme?

First,wikipediahere is an interesting excerpt from on the meaning of "meme " .

Memes are social and cultural information such as habits, skills, and stories. According to Hideyuki Nakajima, a researcher of artificial intelligence, in "The Encyclopedia of Japan," memes are cultural self-replicators, and memes are not metaphors but entities, just like genes. According to "The Selfish Gene," memes are types of brain circuits. Examples of memes replicated outside the brain include clothing, vases, arches, religious behavior, scientist's lectures, and articles.

Cultural information is copied from brain to brain through conversations, people's behavior, books, rituals, education, mass media, etc. Memes are a concept to analyze this process in terms of evolutionary algorithms.

A meme is a term coined by animal behaviorist Richard Dawkins, and is the basic unit of information of a culture that is transmitted and replicated from brain to brain through imitation. There are multiple definitions of memes depending on the theorist, but this definition by Dawkins is the first definition of a meme.

Tsutomu Sakura also defined the following categories of memes.

1. Fad meme:something that is already widespread. Those that have become established move into the habit or tradition meme.

2. Habit meme:something that is repeated without being conscious of it.

3. Traditional memes:those maintained by conscious activity.

4. Code meme:something that has received formal approval as a norm. Laws, rules, etc.

5. Trick memes:artificially created with the intention of spreading.

6. Evangelistic memes:those that include a call to share with others.

7. Legend & Story Meme:something that cannot be determined if it is factual or not. Or fiction.

8. Memes about memes:rethinking an issue from a meme's perspective. Metameme.

🧐Personal Definition｜What is a meme?

Memes as Internet culture may be used in a slightly different sense, but this time we will consider meme coins happening in the web3 world based on their original meaning.

As a result of learning about the above definition of memes and memetics, I personally understand the following

Although not entirely exhaustive, the chain (heredity) in human society includes both physical and cultural heredity, the former being passed down physically from parents as genes, and the latter being passed down as intangibles from the community as well as the parents.

In other words, memes are "cultural heredity in human society.