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According to social media site Instagram, at least one million posts mentioning "meme" were shared every day in 2020. But what is it that makes the internet meme so popular and why is it...
- The Panchatantra
Carried to Iran by the Persian physician Borzuya, the...
- The Panchatantra
Apr 4, 2024 · Many people know that memes can be a powerful tool online, but how can we measure that power? In our latest Insights report, we delve into numerous tests and studies to determine just how influential memes are compared to other types of content.
- Bernie Sanders Is Once Again Asking
- Going Full Sue Sylvester Mode
- Animal Crossing to The Rescue
- Pope Francis Gives His Blessing
- How It Started vs. How It’S Going
- The Trolley Problem
- Nature Is Healing
- D.W. Through The Fence
- Everything Is Cake
- Play How You Feel
It seems safe to say that no one on the Bernie 2020 campaign team could’ve predicted that a December 2019 videoof the then-Democratic presidential candidate candidly requesting donations while strolling down a snowy street would result in the screengrab that launched a thousand memes. But that’s exactly what became of a still from a fundraising ad ...
Glee‘s six-season run may have ended in 2015, but you’d never know that from online memes. While it felt like someone was working to sabotage all our lives from behind the scenes, it’s easy to see why Sue Sylvester—McKinley High’s ultimate saboteur and played by the legendary Jane Lynch—enjoyed a resurgence in meme popularity. The ruthless cheer co...
Weeks after New York City shut down, Nintendo released the perfect game to play in the middle of a pandemic. Animal Crossing is a game that relies on players to have ample time to spend collecting, decorating and personalizing things only to show them to other people who have collected, decorated and personalized their own life away. The game is a ...
On the internet, nothing is sacred. So it’s no surprise that the concept of Photoshopping the Pope offering up a communion wafer in religious reverence took off on Twitter. Even though people have been editing this particular picture since it first appeared online in 2013, Twitter users put a new spin on the meme by employing the social media site’...
No matter what you thought 2020 would bring when the clock struck midnight on Jan. 1, it probably wasn’t a global pandemic that would send the world into lockdown for months on end. Of course, that’s why a meme format making fun of scenarios where things don’t quite work out how you expect was pretty much universally relatable this year—even if it ...
It may be grim, but so is 2020. The trolley problem is a famous thought experiment that asks people to weigh in on the ethical dilemma of whether it’s better to let a runaway trolley take its course and kill a group of people, or divert the trolley and kill only one to save the others. Finding new ways to frame this problem, with the height of inte...
As carbon emissions dropped in the early part of the year as COVID-19 brought much of the world to a screeching halt, people began posting heartwarming photos and videos of animals supposedly returning to urban areas. Many of those viral posts turned out to be misleading. But on the bright side, they did set Twitter users up for one of the best par...
Where summer 2016 gave us the Arthur clenching his fist meme, spring 2020 gave us a resurgence in popularity of the D.W. peering longingly through a fence meme. Scenes from the beloved ’90s PBS children’s show Arthur have long been fodder for relatable online jokes, but perhaps never more so than when people began missing the everyday outings—from ...
In July, BuzzFeed’s food website Tasty shared a videocompilation of a chef cutting into a number of hyper-realistic cakes decorated to look like everyday objects, including a Croc shoe, roll of toilet paper and potted plant. The internet quickly arrived at the conclusion that, in a year when nothing else made sense, it was entirely possible for any...
At the end of the summer, Nathan Apodaca reflected our own collective vibewith nothing but a skateboard, some cranberry juice and “Dreams” by Fleetwood Mac. A short TikTok showed him skating down the street, taking a swig of juice and singing the words “it’s only right for you to play the way you feel.” It was one of the most beautiful moments in 2...
Jun 4, 2020 · “Memes are essentially a language that people use on the internet and being able to identify and understand the nuances is key to understanding communication between people online,” states ...
- David Ryan Polgar
May 26, 2023 · Memes have evolved from simple internet jokes to powerful tools of communication. They encapsulate and express ideas, emotions, and shared experiences in bite-sized, visually appealing formats.
Dec 10, 2020 · Over 1 million posts mentioning “meme” are shared to Instagram each day. From memes that made us LOL and went straight into the group DM to the memes that made us feel seen and let us know we were all in this together – this year, more than ever before, memes kept us sane and helped us cope when we were six feet apart or more.
Feb 28, 2020 · The Internet marked a huge change in the definition of the word “meme”, so much so that it’s important to distinguish between memes that are products of the Internet and memes that aren’t.
