In the absence of direct contact, human expressions online have become fascinating. From a meme to emoji Y stickersNow it’s all about expressing ideas in a few words or with images. The social cues have been lost a bit; we don’t really observe body language, so virtual messages need some help so they aren’t misinterpreted. How do we socialize or broadcast without using ourselves?
The answer is, without a doubt: memes. A meme is the remarkable way the Internet has found to play with words. Among the good old idioms are interspersed memes, which are somehow related to the way we cognitively process words from their literal to figurative meaning.
Undoubtedly, the emoji They can convey or express feelings in a less complicated way than a meme, but they are less creative and somewhat basic. In addition, the emoji they can be somewhat more difficult to decode if what we are trying to say is something deeper or more complex. To the emoji join the stickers and even GIFs as simple and somewhat vague expressions. But memes, according to psychologist Sam Glucksberg, have a chaotic creativity that allows them to create new, evolving linguistic structures.
For example, the action of eating popcorn in a emoji You can limit yourself to just that: eat popcorn. But if that action becomes a meme, it can quickly evolve and be understood as telling gossip or reacting dramatically to something that interests us. With an image different states can be represented and the others are able to capture them.
This is called “asynchronous, multi-person conversation”, because of course, the magic of memes does not end with one individual. Both the person who creates a meme and those who share it are engaged in a massive conversation that maintains a certain kind of social cohesion through humor and puns with millions of strangers.
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The magic (or language) behind a meme
People delight in the creative, non-literal, and playful language of everyday conversation. They transmit through the meme their own identity or belonging, and even their own experiences. A meme, simply put, is «the common property of all human beings.»
Those far from the networks may not participate in the conversation, but that does not mean that they are out of their understanding. Now, if you’re looking to produce a meme out of your words, you’ll need to do more than just a funny image. What persists in memes is socio-critical humor, or rather, a linguistic structure that suggests something (but does not say it).
The goal is to complete the cliché in your head; For example, the meme of a cat and two girls who seem to be demanding something went viral the moment everyone completed their experiences or ideas with it. The meme morphed in many ways, but it was known that the main idea of the claim was something common to everyone and, even if it wasn’t said as such, a specific claim alluded to many different situations.
As variations of the meme appear, it becomes more popular. So, if you want to turn your words into a fabulous meme, you just have to make sure that its content is part of the human condition or some usual assumption of the world so that everyone else clichés the image and responds.
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