The Purpose Of Memes

From the first blog title Ive read about why memes are popular, it would seem that memes have really high accessibility, and are probably one of the fastest things to spread around the Internet. It states that troll face and rage face are the most popular, and now that i think about it, that's how i was first introduced to memes. Troll faces were generally used on videos and pictures of people being trolled or tricked in some way that makes them look foolish. In the blog, it says that there are now more types of memes such as the single panel comics which generally have a funny, popular picture with some text over it, and 4-panel comics which illustrate a scenario with the 4th panel generally being a reaction. In one of the last sections, it talks about how memes used to be popular in paragraph form and without pictures but nowadays there has been a major shift since the pictures with little writing do their jobs, and there is no longer a need for putting in all that effort as a reader and as a poster. From my personal experience I can relate to this, there are some days when a person can be really bored or really upset, and if they see a simple meme with a funny or cute picture which has a joke or belief attached to it, their day can improve a lot, and it will at least give them something to smile about. I personally like the Philip.J.Fry memes from Futurama because i feel that I can relate to most of them.

There are other types of memes growing as well, such as the viral memes and Lolcat memes, as shown is the article of the Atlantic times. i think it's good that pages like this can manage to bring people together, and can separate them into 3 main groups too. Viral memes and memes in general can be funny and entertaining to an extent, You have to keep in mind where the line is between funny and rude. The video on the woman nearly being raped was not being taken as seriously as it should have due to the guy's accent, and they probably thought that he was uneducated or just joking around, but they missed the main point of the news report and instead of showing sympathy, they put it into a comical context. It states in the article that the guy is quite content with his accidental fame, and that he laughs along with everybody else, which means he got over it but you never know if his sister felt the same way. I believe that while Nobody should be rude or disrespectful to others that they know nothing about, it will never be possible for everyone to share the same belief or the same support, and memes are mainly meant to be a joke. Overall i feel that memes are a form of entertainment and they can not appeal to every person every time so pick and choose which ones make you laugh and ignore the ones that don't.