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

[Ben Zimmer]

Here's a clip of Taylor Lorenz on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" trying to explain
the whole "memer" thing to Mika Brzezinski.

https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1228346401932836867

It's a real "ok boomer" moment. Not coincidentally, Taylor was also the one
who brought "ok boomer" to the pages of the Times.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/29/style/ok-boomer.html


On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 10:42 AM David Barnhart <dbarnhart at highlands.com>
wrote:

> Thanks
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Feb 14, 2020, at 9:30 AM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
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> > Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> > Poster:       Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at GMAIL.COM>
> > Subject:      Re: heard on the news this morning.
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> >
> > 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_
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> A person who relies on memes to communicate?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Any evidence would be much appreciated.
> >>
> >>

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