Memes

I am constantly on an image sharing website known as Imgur. This site is a wonderful online community where people attempt to not only share their funny pictures and art work but also to share both heart wrenching and grotesque stories; All through different interesting images. Among these images are things known as memes which come from the Greek-Latin root that means repetition.

These repeated images include favorites like "success kid," "overly attached girlfriend," and "confession bear." These memes effectively work as a symbolic meaning through image. The interesting thing about these memes are that all the while that they are common and repeated by nature the captions and creative spins that users can place on them generates a whole new meaning.

The use of memes are not just limited to imgur, reddit or 9gag. These memes are more or less what defines internet humor because of their reproducibility and easy creation. Memes are not limited to the digital medium but are more or less what makes the internet unique.