Happy 3 years to this iconic vine /ZI9svqyu0O In 2015, Twitter added a native video upload feature, as well as the ability to quote tweet, paving the way for the next iteration of memes as multilayered, multimedia presentations.Īt the forefront? A six-second video capturing app. Evolving from basic image edits made to make people laugh into rhetorical devices capable of disseminating information to millions of people, memes have established themselves as one of the most important mediums today.
As more and more time is spent online, memes have become the perfect vehicle for facilitating information, humor, and opinion. The rise of the meme in popular culture coincides with the increased presence of the internet and social media in people’s lives. They can take something as innocent as children’s show Arthur and meme the images into something that results in a reprimand from the series’ creators, or mock the entire concept of owning AirPods. Today, they’re part of everyday social media interaction, used and shared and consumed every minute. Once upon a time, memes were just thought to be the weird pictures that parts of the internet made to entertain themselves.
Anything can become a meme-even people, and if you’re really lucky, becoming a meme can turn you into a celebrity. Whether they’re being shared by your favorite rapper, family member, or politician, memes have permeated pop culture in an almost meta fashion.
A concept imagined from an unlikely source, memes have emerged as one of the primary methods of communication on the internet.
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