Whois & Analysis for knowyourmeme.com

An Internet meme is an activity, concept, catchphrase or piece of media which spreads, often as mimicry, from person to person via the Internet.

Some examples include posting a photo of people lying down in public places (called "planking") and uploading a short video of people dancing to the Harlem Shake.

Know Your Meme (KYM) is a website and video series which uses wiki software to document various Internet memes and other online phenomena, such as viral videos, image macros, catchphrases, internet celebrities and more.

It also investigates new and changing memes through research, as it commercializes on the culture.

Originally produced by Rocketboom, the website was acquired in March 2011 by Cheezburger Network.

Know Your Meme includes sections for confirmed, submitted, deadpooled (rejected or incompletely documented), researching, and popular memes.

A viral video is a video that becomes popular through a viral process of Internet sharing, typically through video sharing websites, social media and email.

A website is a collection of related web pages, including multimedia content, typically identified with a common domain name, and published on at least one web server.

A website may be accessible via a public Internet Protocol (IP) network, such as the Internet, or a private local area network (LAN), by referencing a uniform resource locator (URL) that identifies the site.

A macro (short for "macroinstruction", from Greek 'long') in computer science is a rule or pattern that specifies how a certain input sequence (often a sequence of characters) should be mapped to a replacement output sequence (also often a sequence of characters) according to a defined procedure.

The mapping process that instantiates (transforms) a macro use into a specific sequence is known as macro expansion.

A facility for writing macros may be provided as part of a software application or as a part of a programming language.

In the former case, macros are used to make tasks using the application less repetitive.

In the latter case, they are a tool that allows a programmer to enable code reuse or even to design domain-specific languages.