[Ads-l] heard on the news this morning.

[Ben Zimmer]

I'm guessing you heard Taylor Lorenz of the New York Times talking about
Mike Bloomberg paying "some of the most influential memers on the Internet"
for sponsored posts.

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2020/02/13/new-york-times-taylor-lorenz-on-bloombergs-meme-ad-purchases.html

Here's her Times article on the topic, which also uses "memers":

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/13/style/michael-bloomberg-memes-jerry-media.html

And she's used "memers" in the past, when writing for the Daily Beast and
the Atlantic.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/he-started-messaging-me-when-i-was-16-female-memers-slam-content-zones-creator
https://www.thedailybeast.com/memers-take-over-brooklyn-for-irl-party
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/07/why-some-of-instagrams-biggest-memers-are-locking-their-accounts/564995/
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/04/instagram-memers-are-unionizing/587308/

--bgz

On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 8:13 AM David K. Barnhart <dbarnhart at highlands.com>
wrote:

> _Memeer_ or _meme-er_
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> A person who relies on memes to communicate?
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> Any evidence would be much appreciated.
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