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From the #BLM movement to the pandemic, memes go for the jugular with their wit

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Aug 2, 2020 #jugular, #Memes
From the #BLM movement to the pandemic, memes go for the jugular with their wit

Our collective uncertainties and anxieties encapsulated neatly into those leading text-bottom text macro image WFH memes reassured us that we were not in this alone.

Origin story

Very first things initially: what is a meme? The Oxford Student’s Dictionary defines memes as “an image, a video, a piece of text, etc., that is passed extremely rapidly from one Internet user to another, often with slight changes that make it funny”.

From the #BLM movement to the pandemic, memes go for the jugular with their wit

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There are some conclusive beginnings of this phenomenon, which psychologist and memeticist Susan Blackmore attributes to the poster boy of atheism, Richard Dawkins in her book, Meme Machine

Child of the Web

The form and name might have come from in Duchamp’s studio and at Dawkins’ desk, however the meme is genuinely the kid of the Web. Around the year 2000, when most xennials were still battling with their papas to get that dial-up connection, odd message boards had actually begun spawning funny short format content that would end up being the precursor of memes.

From the #BLM movement to the pandemic, memes go for the jugular with their wit

Images, flash animation, snippets from video games, and demotivational posters started occupying sites like Albino Blacksheep, Funnyjunk, 4chan and Reddit. The most unforgettable memes to have actually come out of these sites from the late 90 s to the early 2000 s were the Ugachaka Child, LOLcats, Pepe the Frog and Rickroll, to name a few.

However it was the launch of Facebook

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