origin: Coined by VectorHKH in "Memes, L5 and the Religion of the Space Colonies," L5 News, 1985-08. Also in MEMETICS AND THE MODULAR-MIND. Acknowledged by Dawkins in The Selfish Gene, 2nd ed., page 330.
" . . . victims that have been taken over by a meme to the extent that that their own survival becomes inconsequential." (Examples: Kamikazes, suicide terrorists, suicide cult victims.) hosts and memebots are not necessarily memeoids.
See also: meme; auto-toxic; exo-toxic.