- Within the first meme listed I believe that it relates to my topic because is shows how hard it is to maintain everything you are expected to as a college student. The target audience is clearly directed toward college students, as is my website.
- Within the second meme I chose, I believe that it relates to my topics focus on keeping up your mental and psychical health. This memes audience relates more to the psychical and mental health side of my topic, but still connects to health and wellness.
- The third meme listed, I believe that it relates to the fact that many college students drown in the course load of school and aren’t able to prioritize their health. The audience is similar to the first images, being that it is targeted to all college students, but it could be directed to any level of student.
- In The Language of Internet Memes, the author states, “The ideal of a meme is the concept or idea conveyed. The ideal dictates the behavior, which in turn creates the manifestation. If the manifestation is a funny image of a cat and the behavior is using software to make it, then the ideal is something like “cats are funny.”” (Davison pg 123). I believe the ‘ideals’ of my chosen memes are the fact that they were made to be relatable.
- In The Language of Internet Memes, the Davison states, “The behavior of a meme is the action taken by an individual in service of the meme. The behavior of the meme creates the manifestation. For instance, if the behavior is photographing a cat and manipulating that photograph with software, the manifestation this creates is the ordered progression of pixels subsequently uploaded to the Internet.” (Davison pg 123). I believe that the behaviors of my identified memes are the captions that add to the pictures. The pictures would not be funny if they had not been turned into a meme by adding conversation to them.
- Memes spread by people posting and reshaping them on the many forms of social media there are. They are commonly shared from this website onto social media platforms like twitter and Reddit. These memes originate at The Know Your Meme Database which is located here: http://knowyourmeme.com/
- In The Language of Internet Memes, Davison states, “The manifestation of a meme is its observable, external phenomena. It is the set of objects created by the meme, the records of its existence. It indicates any arrangement of physical particles in time and space that are the direct result of the reality of the meme.” (Davison pg 123) The manifestations of my memes are what make it a meme and if they were not on the pictures they, again, would not be considered memes. I believe that these memes’ manifestations are different compared to other memes I have seen because they are extremely transparent and some means message sometimes can get lost without enough information on the joke.
- The manifestations that I have chosen to appeal to my target audience are transparency and tutorials. If I wasn’t extremely detailed within my video or podcast, I believe that it would be hard for students to understand where many resources are placed in Universities. This appeals to my target audience because students do not have time to dig to find something they need, they want something that is easy and accessible, which I believe my website is.
- [Image – 884648] | Twitter. (2019, February 22). Retrieved April 24, 2019, from https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/884648-twitter
- Lie Down / Try Not To Cry / Cry A Lot. (2018, December 28). Retrieved April 24, 2019, from https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/lie-down-try-not-to-cry-cry-a-lot
- This Semester | Grain Entrapment. (2018, February 22). Retrieved April 24, 2019, from https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1309025-grain-entrapment
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