Richard Dawkins coined the term in 1976

Yes, but prior to meme becoming the term to refer to these pictures, they were largely known as image macros on /b/, which is the home of the cock mongler.

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Exactly right. Image macros, demotivational posters, or whatever else they were called back then are now all memes.

All image macros are memes, but not all memes are image macros.

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I…didn’t say they were?

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