hashtagsquicklyevolvedintoameansofmakingjokesorprop-agatingfunnymemes.
This is a great way to look up specific memes that are amusing to you. If you're in a Bad Luck Brian mood, all you have to do is type in #badluckbrian in the search bar in Twitter and thousands of the memes will appear.
Manyofthelaterusesofhashtags
Oftentimes on Twitter nowadays, I notice that a lot of trending hashtags have an icon that automatically appears at the ending of the hashtag. For example, at one point when you tweeted #TheBachelor an icon of a rose appeared after.
rightwaytousehashtags
There truly is an art to using the proper hashtags. If you're trying to promote a post, using popularly-clicked-on hastags is essential.
algorithms
Speaking algorithms on Spotify, did you know that "shuttle" does not actually put your songs on Shuffle. It's not randomized. If that were the case, you would frequently hear the same song twice.
Istarteddoingalotof@repliestomyclassmates,andthat’ssomethingyou’llseethrou
This is what we’re doing now! I feel as though discussion posts are a great way to understand new material because your classmates might have a new concept or idea.
@username
By @ing someone, it expands your social network and it’s much easier to make connections this way.
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I wonder when this changed.
weight, and height
I'm shocked that this is a description a Grindr user is allowed to fill in. First of all, a lot of people lie about their height and weight. Secondly, I don't think it's fair to loose interest in someone after seeing they don't fit you ideal height and weight requirements.
while convincing queer people to spend as much time as possible on the app,
Besides having advertisements that take up some time, how does Grindr maintain users' interests to spend a lot of time on the app?
“the ability to clas-sify and sort people based on the available data—and thereby to create new insights and correlations between people, their activities, and inter-ests”
Is Grindr like Tinder in the sense that the people you swipe through are people within a certain distance from you? Or is it completely random people from anywhere? This sentence makes it seem like distance isn't a factor and it's just about personality and interests.
Grindr and Facebook are more similar than different.
The connection between Facebook and Grindr can be seen with Facebook groups. Typically, Facebook groups are groups of people with one thing in common. Users on Grindr have one thing in common as well; they are interested in the same sex.
these women generated in theireager embrace of‘wellness’strategies that were obviously contentious
Throughout this pandemic, in particular, I have noticed an increase in "wellness ads" on Instagram. These ads are weight loss sublements, herbal teas, exercise equipment and so much more. It is a gigantic market on Instagram right now.
anyone can be famous
This phrase irks SO many people. It feels a little bit unfair that anyone can be famous. It undermines the people with true talent and drive.
But to reachthe target audience (at an optimal frequency) with its message, the brand owners (oradvertisers) have to pay media organisations for the advertising.
Kelsey Johnson talked a little bit about this today. She was saying how she doesn't work in customer service hardly ever anymore because her job is to target audiences.
broke of TigerWoods’extramarital infidelities in late 2009, several sponsors suspended their contractswith him almost immediately, including Accenture, AT&T, Gatorade, General Motors,Gillette and TAG Heuer
This reminds me of one of Apple's policies; The villain in a movie/TV show is not allowed to use an Apple device. This is because they don't want a negative connotation with their brand.
rep -etition: repeating the same idea time and again improves the videos’ prospects for successful replication.
Repetition also allows for the creation of new ideas and content that builds on top of each other.
This is not to say that politics does not find its way into Internet memes
Nowadays, politics are especially humorous. Ever since elections have become such a prominent part of social media, a lot of people have taken the ridiculousness of certain political figures, and made a mockery out of them.
simple
I wonder if by simple they mean short. I feel like it's safe to say that the average person will loose interest in reading something that is 16 pages, for example. The more concise, the easier it is to maintain the reader's attention.
people are more likely to share positive than negative stories. In ad-dition, they prefer sharing items that are perceived as sur-prising, interesting, or practically useful.
I wonder what data they are using to gather this information. Such as, what age range is being analyzed? I think there is a huge difference between what younger generations share with their friends versus what adults share with their friends.
what role do blogs and other social media play in the viral process
When I think of blogs, I think of buzzfeed articles. When I think of buzzfeed, I think of memes. Buzzfeed utilizes the use of memes in all of their articles.
once a photo, or a video, reaches a certain degree of popularity on the Web, you can bet that someone, somewhere, will alter it.
This reminds me of “stitch tik toks”. This is when another user adds onto a preexisting video. These videos constantly go viral. It’s a way to connect with each other and make new trends.
EAVE BRITNEY ALONE! [...] Leave Britney Spears alone right N
I’m not positive when this text was written, but it was likely before the #FreeBritney movement was a thing. It’s interesting how it used to be “LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE” to now being “Free Britney”. A lot of new information has surfaced in the past year so I’m curious if the memes about Britney have changed.
(b) emotive, oriented toward the addresser and his or her emotions;
I argue that this is the most important factor of all things listed. Without having an emotional attachment to what you’re viewing, it becomes uninteresting, and thus not memorable.
Thus, such memes are emblems of a culture saturated with personal branding and strategic self-commodification.
This reminds me of the GIF activity we did in class on Wednesday. We take a pre-existing image, and add our own caption when sharing with others. This creates a personal branding aspect to the existing image.
sharing content—or spreading memes—is now a fundamental part of what participants experience as the digital sphere.2
Even educational assignments have memes in them. I've had a lot of professors who have a meme on the course home page on Canvas. Sometimes, I even see them on assignment instructions. That just goes to show how wide the spectrum is of how memes are used.
however, only memes suited to their sociocultural environment spread successfully,
This makes complete sense. A lot of memes are references to pop-culture, such as movies. While younger people, such as high school and college students commonly spread memes about famous vines (pre-tik tok), older generations that did not grow up watching vines, would not spread memes about vines to their friends.
finally, only a handful of studies have actually examined the practices and politics involved in the creation and dif-fusion of Internet memes.
This seems strange. "Meme" is one of the most well-known internet terms. My 90-year-old grandfather even knows what it is. With something so popular, I can't seem to understand how "only a handful of studies have actually examined the practices and politics involved in the creation and diffusion of internet memes."
“Messagescontributionstocirculatingcontent—notactionstoelicitresponses.
I really like this quote. Messages should encourage others and build on top of each other to educate, inspire, and persuade one another. Messages should never end with the first account.
genreconventionsofrealitytelevisionand/orbyparticularperceptionjfofandinvestmentinSimonCowellstoughjudgecharacter,whoseschoolboygrinatthesegmentsendrepresentstheultimatepayofffor^herspectacularperformance
I was just talking about this with my suite-mates last night when we were watching the bachelor! In nearly every TV show and movie there's always a "villain" and we were wondering the science behind why viewers have a stronger interest in shows when theres someone extremely dramatic and distasteful.
howmanypeopleviewit,howmanytimesitisviewed,andhowlongvisitorsviewit
On top of these things, I'm curious to know if they take any specific information about their individual viewers. Such as there gender, age, race, etc. They can determine Which specific demographic is most interesting.
^readability”refers
I think spreadability happens due to viewers/ consumers. Take Tik Tok, for example. You see a hilarious video and so you send it to a few of your friends. Then those friends send it to their friends, and so on and so forth. All of the sudden, that Tik Tok has 2 million likes.
Ifyouwantaparticularimage,chancesareitalreadyexists—butitmaybeeasiertocreateonefromscratchthantofindanexistingone.
Does this have anything to do with copyright issues? It could be possible that a website owns the rights to a particular image and therefore no other website is able to use it. Therefore, creating a similar but completely different image from scratch is the only option, therefore easier.
morphemes
I googled the definition for this term and I'm still confused about what it means. Can you please go over it in class?
“Languageis,asitwere,thatwhichdividesreality
I pondered on this sentence for a few minutes. This argues that language divides reality, however, I've always thought that language brings reality together, or in other words, makes reality make sense. After reading further I understood what the author meant.
any websites served galleries of GIFs, encouraging others to download and use them on their own sites with little regard for who originally created them
I find it interesting how every single person with an iPhone has an extension on their iMessage app called "images." These are always Gifs. I use the app all the time to make my conversations funnier. Before I read this segment, I never realized that I don't know where most of these GIFs came from, or who they belong to. I'm a little bit curious to know if Apple has any lawsuits against them...
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The high resolution and numerous colors contribute immensely to the Pathos (emotions) of the Gif. With a low resolution image in just black and white, it could be a challenge to find the Gif humorous, sad, or relatable.