[ravenstine]

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. I know I've inherited personality quirks, tics, and ways of speaking from notable figures because either I thought they were funny or simply because their tics and catch phrases have a quality much like that of an "earworm". Mimicry certainly doesn't have to indicate a psychological condition beyond perhaps having a bad habit, which everyone has every now and then. The internet is just amplifying some of these inate human characteristics at the same time that we have gotten really good at pathologizing everything and labeling ourselves.

[darkerside]

meme: (n) an element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means, especially imitation