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What is in a meme? A meme as it is today, is like all of these new Internet sensations- it starts off in some geeky pimply 16 year olds bedroom and suddenly it takes the world by storm.

I’m sure you’ve all seen (consciously or unconsciously) or heard of a meme. Meriam Webster defines meme as “an idea, behavior, style or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture.”

Although ‘meme’ is only now becoming a popular trend, the idea has been around for a while.  If you have ever told a common knock knock joke or have laughed about ‘ghost chips’- you have been a part of a real world meme. 

A meme is fundamentally the ability to communicate ideas, behaviors and styles through pictures and text.  Over the past few years, popular internet sites like Facebook, Twitter and instagram have allowed for popular memes to go viral despite the differing cultures and backgrounds of an individual.

It seems to be able to reach and resonate with people who have entirely different life experiences, backgrounds and countries.

A picture meme is where you take an image and add text (also known as an image macro)  and then post it on your social media sites.  This has resulted in a plethora of meme’s being shared, liked, Instagrammed and tweeted throughout the internet on a daily basis.

I played around with the idea of a meme and was challenged to create a serious meme and a funny meme in paint. It was quite simple and the results made the picture slightly more interesting.

Memes are a great means of communication as it is now catering to the new breed of internet users, who want short and sharp bits of information. Like the old adage says, a picture tells a thousand words,  memes accentuate and resonate with people from all across the worlds divides.