For more than 25 years, Stevenson, of Brampton, Ontario, has used the same cardboard box nearly completely covered in tape to store her tree from the Hudson Bay Company.

For more than 25 years, Stevenson, of Brampton, Ontario, has used the same cardboard box nearly completely covered in tape to store her tree from the Hudson Bay Company.

The sight of these cardboard boxes each year on social media can be considered a meme, said Amanda Brennan, senior director of trends at XX Artists and an internet librarian who studies meme ...