MemeTank:SeenInTheField
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This is a location to define the meaning of "SeenInTheField", taken as sysnonymous to "Observed In Nature".
Nature or evidence should basically speak for itself and be widely interpreted. If a person thinks something is evidence, then they can offer it. But certainly media and espc. mainstream media citations is good evidence that something is "in the wild".
I think also it has to be widespread. If a meme spreads to more than a single special group. For example, if we split the US into "liberal base", "conservative base", and "swing voter", then if a meme is held (or "believed") by more than one group that is reasonable evidence that the meme is observed "in the wild".
Common cultural assumptions are also memes, so anecdotal evidence also has to be taken seriously and this is required to apprehend memes that are clearly out there but below the radar of mass media or eschewed for some reason.
