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- Jan 2021
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A meme is an image or video containing cultural values or ideas, often represented through allusion (implied reference to another work, without naming that work or its author). Memes can spread rapidly spreads through social media. Why? Because the best ones are #relatable; that is, they speak to a common human experience.
Using this idea of memes possibly being literature, could video productions such as vines and tiktoks be considered literature, even if there is no words we can see on a screen? The one given as an example has words associated with an image. Things like Shakespeare's plays are productions, but they have a script to follow.
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