JAIDEN MARBURY
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
If you’ve checked any social media recently, chances are you’ve seen a meme. They’re everywhere now, everywhere. Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram especially, you cannot escape them because they’ve been ingrained in our culture. Nowadays’ no one’s gonna read news for fun, but shake it up a little, add some comical value, they you have an effective outlet of expression. Memes allow someone who wants their voice heard do just that. So it’s no surprise that Americans creates so many of them.
Growing up in a country with free speech and technology being the backbone of its society, our opinions and ideas can be shared instantaneously through the web. From this same network, memes have become the most easiest and effective way of getting those points across even when they’re not purposefully trying to - even when they’re just for the “lmaos.” Humor and freedom are the two main ingredients that make them viral. We can talk about anything: sport, politics, hobbies, Donald Trump’s “orange” skin; regardless of the subject, memes evoke the universal sense of humor that sways us to consider the creators viewpoint easily.
And because of their endless presence, our lives as Americans have been influenced. We’ve adopted customs from the internet culture: “Challenges,” “Meme Pages” “Vine Comps” all stem from memes and the ideas they’ve helped spread. They’ve also emphasized the presence of different age groups because their the ones who drive their meme production. It’s no doubt memes have become America’s voice.
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