>>279837858
It certainly was one use of the word, but that was REAL long ago to be fair, nothing modern day, at least outside of cultures where this creature exists.
>Words often shift in meaning.
I obviously get that and it's fine, but it's still annoying to see how the meaning of certain things change for whatever reason.
Not related, but reminds me of the usage of "fag" or "faggot", may it be the original meaning or how the brits use it.

>>279837931
>banter --> inside joke --> fad --> meme --> shitposting template --> cancer
I'm not 100% sure 'bout that one, at least for teh first two parts of it. Banter and inside jokes are purely personal, a private matter. Fads and memes meanwhile are very public leaning, if you get what I'm going for here.
>overused word with no definition
While I'm sick of that word, I'm equally sick of all the nu-term bullshit, creating a need of sorts of the term "buzzword". It's all "cancer" as you mentioned.
>kamfbegriff
Not once heard of this one, likely for the better.

>>279838065
>Its not in MGS2 at all
What are you talking about? It's all over the game, especially the ending? Kojimbo himself even describes the game's theme to be "memes", which is pretty clear when looking at the dialogue where they specifically mention and directly use the word.
>meme is used exclusively for online
meme is being used in real life by the same retards that STILL say "lol" out loud in public, in real life context for real life events. The word of the meaning has changed due to this normalization
>almost always has an actual reason for existing
I mean, duh. Every single stereotype has a reason to exist as well, there is always a bit (or a lot) of truth behind every single one of them.
>It's pretty interesting
To be fair, just about anything is interesting, especially on a psychology level (for me). The issue is that a lot of these things can also be extremely annoying if no damaging.