Social networks are growing, followed by movements that are spread very strongly. One of the most popular and hot trends is meme, a trend that has existed for a long time on social networks and it is used frequently by users as a habit. So what is meme that it's so hot, the following article of TipsMake.com will answer you this question.
1. What is meme?
Meme is a cultural symbol or social idea. The word meme is pronounced 'Mim' - a shortened form of mimeme in ancient Greek - μίμημα, it is defined as imitating a certain pattern.
The meme concept was first explained by Richard Dawkins in his book 'Selfish Genes', published in 1976. In meme books is a way to spread a certain information movement. It was not until 2001 that the meme began to become a phenomenon.
In addition to cultural symbolism, meme is also understood to be a behavior, a concept, or style that spreads from person to person from another culture. The main purpose is to convey the phenomenon or topic that the meme represents.
Most modern memes are photos with captions that are thought to be funny, often a way to openly mock human behavior. Other memes can be videos and verbal expressions. Some memes have heavy philosophical content….
Types of meme formats:
- Meme image and text: This is the most popular meme, every social networking site uses this form such as facebook, instagram, zalo .
- Animated memes (gif images): This is a new meme that emerged in the beginning of 2018. These memes are animations that often have humorous content to create a trend.
- Rage comics: This is a short comic with funny images, or funny troll faces. This type of meme is also widely used on social networks and forums.
- Meme short video : similar to a gif, but the video will have more sound and is used quite a lot on social networks.
2. The famous meme today
Yao Ming
Yao Ming can say is an extremely popular meme on social networking sites today. Yao Ming's kiss like a wedding to describe unfinished crying situations.
Think About It
The image of a guy pointing at his head with a proud face to say is: Be brave.
Blacken
This is a very famous meme all over the world 'blasphemous Brian' is an image originated from BuzzFeed, Kyle - the owner of the photo made it when he was in 7th grade. Truong caught his personal photo because he thought that he deliberately made a "troll" pose in that photo. This meme is often used to refer to unexpectedly unlucky cases.
Gavin Thomas
The boy in a red T-shirt, blonde hair, a face trying to make an innocent face, but hidden behind countless . crimes. The boy is Gavin Thomas (born in 2010, in the US). Gavin was known from the age of two and a half thanks to the enthusiastic promotion of his uncle Nick Mastodon, but until he was 5 years old, Gavin really 'exploded' with a series of photos recording his face with nobody's expressions. support floating.
Ancient Aliens
The image of a man holding his hands in front of him as if he were to describe something, with the 'disdain' expression on his face, is often used when people feel like they're giving up on something.
True Story
In fact, this is the famous actor image of the 'How I met your mother' series - Neil Patrick Harris. His invented photograph is used to make things true in life and is always pegged in two words: True Story.
I don't know who you are .
That is the preamble for a photo of the top photo in Vietnam in recent years. The photo is a cutout of actor Liam John Neeson in the movie Taken in the afternoon of 2008. The motif of this photo is almost always the same: "I don't know who you are . but if. . ".
Success Kid
In contrast to Brian, the image of Success Kid is used to describe the good things in life. This photo captures the young Sammy Griner when he was just 11 months old in 2007. The great facial expression made the photo extremely popular among the online community.
Good Guy Greg
This is Greg "the nice guy". No one knows who he is, his real name is, but his photo in a happy face is used a lot on social networks, photo-editing sites, etc. His photos are often used to make actions that get lucky, help others, .
Eye-Seeing Chloe
Five years ago, Chloe (from Utah, USA) became a photo phenomenon thanks to a clip posted by her mother Katie Clem on YouTube. In the clip, when Lily's sister was so happy that she was crying because her mother announced that she was going to give away Disneyland, Chloe (then 2 years old) had a funny indifferent look. She was even believed to be annoyed by her sister's outrageous emotions. Since then, information and images of 'Eye-Seeing Chloe' have always received the attention of many people. She also became one of the hottest idols (photo) of MXH.
Distracted Boyfriend
On November 2, 2015, a legendary meme photo taken by photographer Antonio Guillem, posted on iStock's photo database, included the description: "The man who disappointed his girlfriend by looking another girl". This is a picture for "Standing mountain and looking mountain".