memeworthy

memeworthy

English

Etymology

meme +‎ -worthy

Adjective

memeworthy (comparative more memeworthy, superlative most memeworthy)

1. (Internet slang) Deserving of Internet memes.

   Clips from 1980s cartoons are usually pretty memeworthy.

   • 2013, Evgeny Morozov, To Save Everything, Click Here: Technology, Solutionism, and the Urge to Fix Problems that Don’t Exist, Penguin UK (→ISBN)

     Facebook's filters are also designed to notice the already popular, frequently clicked items while disregarding other, less memeworthy ones.

   • 2015, Frederick Luis Aldama, Latino/a Literature in the Classroom: Twenty-first-century approaches to teaching, Routledge (→ISBN)

     ... but they are far from memeworthy. One question that social media can help us ask our students is: what can poetry (and literature more generally) do in ...

   • 2017, Randa Abdel-Fattah, The Lines We Cross, Scholastic Inc. (→ISBN)

     That was kind of memeworthy. I'm impressed.” “Your mum and I were over at Joe's the other night. Twenty years he's been there, Michael.

   • 2021, Justin Starr, Water and Wastewater Pipeline Assessment Technologies: Classification Systems, Sensors, and Results Interpretation, CRC Press (→ISBN), page 19:

     ... opened up under the rear wheels of a bus during morning rush hour, producing memeworthy images that have given the city an image it would like to shake.