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

Ben Zimmer bgzimmer at GMAIL.COM
Fri Feb 14 14:29:48 UTC 2020


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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