The General TV Spot, 'Bad Luck Brian' Featuring Shaquille O'Neal, Kyle Craven.

Where does Bad Luck Brian come from? The original Bad Luck Brian meme was posted to Reddit in the subreddit /r/AdviceAnimals on January 23, 2012. It reads “Takes driving test. Gets first DUI.” It received some attention, but later on the same day, a significantly more popular Bad Luck Brian meme was posted.

Origin. On January 23, 2012, at 2:15 UTC, Ian Davies uploaded a photo to Reddit of his friend Kyle Craven. Craven and Davies both attended Archbishop Hoban High School in Akron, Ohio. The photo which became Bad Luck Brian was originally taken for the high school's 2005-06 yearbook.

Richard Dawkins Origins and early memes The word meme was coined by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene as an attempt to explain how aspects of culture replicate, mutate, and evolve (memetics).

Richard Dawkins The term meme (from the Greek mimema, meaning “imitated”) was introduced in 1976 by British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in his work The Selfish Gene.

Explain why Brian thought he had both good luck and bad luck. He though he had good luck because he was alive after the crash, but bad luck because his parents divorcing is what ultimately led to him being in a plane that crashed in the first place.

Luck refers to that which happens to a person beyond that person's control. This view incorporates phenomena that are chance happenings, a person's place of birth for example, but where there is no uncertainty involved, or where the uncertainty is irrelevant.

Meme theory (or memetic theory - with an “e”) explains the development of culture through the imitation of things: ideas, behaviors, and styles that are encoded as memes so they can be easily imitated. A meme is the cultural counterpart to a biological gene.

What is the origin of the term meme? The term meme was introduced in 1976 by British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. He conceived of memes as the cultural parallel to biological genes and considered them as being in control of their own reproduction.

The definition of a meme depends on the context. It is a scientific concept, first coined by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in the 1970s.

The original dancing baby was created by three animators as a freelance assignment. In 1996, we didn't even know what a meme was and the video didn't see a lot of company until social media exploded decades later.

We find out that the Secret is the fact that his mother is having an affair--Brian saw her with another man in a station wagon while he was riding bikes with Terry. The Secret happens well before Brian's parents' divorce, and Brian's father never finds out, but Brian knows it's the cause.