User:Mayxiii/Internet meme

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Introduction
What is considered a meme may vary across different communities on the Internet and is subject to change over time: traditionally, memes consisted of a combination of image macros and a concept or catchphrase, but the concept has since become broader and more multi-faceted, evolving to include more elaborate structures such as challenges, GIFs, videos, and viral sensations. Internet memes are considered apart of internet culture. Internet memes describe a comical artifact of internet culture and spreads through online spaces via a visual medium.

The first resemblance of internet memes comes from emoticons. In 1982, Scott E Fahlman introduces the sideways smiley face formed by punctuations. Fahlman's intention was to create emotion and expressions with the use of digital imagery.

Evolution and propagation
Internet memes spread online through influences such as popular culture. In addition, memes can be subjected to in-jokes within online communities such as Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, YouTube, Reddit, and 4chan. This refers to the memes "in-groupness" as it communicates a exclusive cultural knowledge unbeknown to general users. In common internet memes, there is a basis for cultural relevance in certain text and imagery associated with memes. On the macro level, internet memes must be encoded and decoded. Through the spreading process, memes invokes studium and punctum memetrics. Punctum is the aesthetic affiliation to a piece of imagery, thus invoking a reaction. It is the affect of the image. In utilizing affect as a visual vernacular, internet memes create a culture of unspoken referential importance. By using explicit cultural knowledge, internet memes provide affect as the emerging communication. Studium is the entertaining aspect of internet memes. With the combination of studium and punctum memetrics, individuals perceive and spread memes from their cultural significance to types of memes.

Academically, researchers model how they evolve and predict which memes will survive and spread throughout the Web. The phenomena of viral memes is a users to users experience the represents participatory culture on online platforms.

Communicating Political Satire
Internet meme's are a medium for communicating comical images and or phrases for mass online audiences.

Social Movements
Internet memes provide significant contributions toward social issues. Memetric structures have enabled social movements to become spreadable pieces of information.

During the 2010 "It Get's Better" movement for LGTBQ+ empowerment, memes were continuously used to promote and uplift LGTBQ+ youth. The Human Rights Campaign equal rights symbol became an internet meme in defending the legalization of same sex marriage. The Ice Bucket Challenge became a viral meme in promoting and raising money and awareness for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Gender
The foundation of internet memes and their humor consist of heteronormative ideologies and stereotypes. Internet memes are interrupted through different cultural lenses that influence the likelihood a users finds a particular media text comical. Viral memes are commonly associated with humor reflecting societal norms and perceptions. Thus, gender in memes are formatted archetypes focusing on stereotypical references to gender.

Internet memes depict women as technological and or sexual oblivious. The stark juxtaposition is shown through memes as men being the knowledgeable ones in both technological and sexual endeavors. Other gender specific meme type is the jealous girlfriend. In heteronormative relationship memes, the women is seen as the unreasonable and crazy girlfriend whereas the men are poised and unfazed.

Women create sectors of humorous memes and continue the participatory culture of memes. The memefication of "a binder full of women" created ironic content that re-directed the narrative towards post-feminist content through political commentary.