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But these bad posts did give us one good gift: a meme. A more annoying feature of the false tweets was the "we are the virus" framing: In addition to being lies, they basically insinuated that ...
While early memes about the virus were initially rather lighthearted and focused on specific hot button topics like hand sanitizer, the discourse has shifted. At this point in the United States ...
The times we’re in have inadvertently offered an example of why we say memes “go viral” on the internet: Like a virus, a meme spreads by copying itself. And during that process, it ends up ...
One of the most popular beers in the world is getting the meme treatment thanks to COVID-19. As coronavirus continues to spread globally, online searches for "corona beer virus" and "beer ...
There’s classic racism and classism since the “we” the virus has taken a toll on is not evenly distributed, with black and brown communities seeing an outsize number of deaths. There are ...
Basically, Imgflip’s neural network processed a lot of memes and then tried to predict what memes should look like. The results are often hilarious, and they certainly feel like real memes.
Since late last year, when China first alerted the world to the novel coronavirus, jokes, puns, and memes about it have been spreading even faster and wider than the virus itself. It doesn’t ...
Does a meme a day keep the doctor away? Not quite, but it looks like it might help, according to one recent study. They surveyed 748 people online last December: 72% of those who responded were ...