Image © Warner Bros/WingNut Films/The Saul Zaentz Company – Meme by People of the Internet via ImgFlipīefore we get ahead of ourselves, what exactly is a meme? Seamlessly replicating and evolving for communication and entertainment, these viral inside jokes and commentaries provide a lens to see the outlook of generations, an explosive advertising opportunity, and an intriguing resource for qualitative research.
As lovers and researchers of all things cultural, it’s about time that we wrote about our perspective on the pervasive and cavernous culture of Internet memes.įrom message boards and email chains in the nascent stages of the Internet to full-blown “normie” (mainstream) adoption on Facebook and Instagram, memes have come to define the culture of the Internet and its many nooks and crannies.
