From parents to kids, businesses to non-profit organizations, everybody and anybody has joined the meme revolution.
What's a Meme?
An Internet meme, pronounced like "seem," is a shared image that spreads virally across the Internet via social networking sites, blogs, emails, and more. Memes illustrate anything from impressive triumphs to epic failures or they can be parodies that imitate behavior.
A good meme goes viral - your audience (friends, family, peers, colleagues, organizations, and more) broadcasts your work for you by sharing your meme with their friends, family, and so on.
All you have to do is create a memorable meme!
Popular Memes You Can Create Too!
Caption This: One of the most popular memes, these are images captioned by your friends, family, or your audience. Whether it's a dramatic image from a popular movie or an image that sparks your imagination, captions are a fantastic way to increase engagement and have a good laugh!Imitation-Speak: If you see an image and imagine the person (or animal's) response, what would it say? Would he, she, or it have a particular accent?
Entertainment: Television, movies, sports, arts, and more - entertainment is a shared experience and is easily recognized. If you have an experience that conjures a scene or moment, you can create an entertainment themed-meme by taking a scene from a movie and add your own text!
Meme Movements: These types of memes have social zeal that you contribute to with your own personal twist. For example, doing something in an area that isn't traditionally done, taking a picture of it, and sharing it. The "planking" phenomenon is an example of this.
Formatted Memes: Format a meme that can be easily replicated. An example of this is the 6 photo montage featuring photos from "What my friends think I do" to "What I really do..."
Shockingly Bad: Made with the best intentions, from horrendous music videos to family photos, some memes are created and shared because they're "too bad to be true." These are often subjected to all sorts of quips and jabs.
Photoshop: Part of an image is superimposed into a well-known image or the image is altered, like the Mona Lisa as the joker or the Mona Lisa holding a cat.
Motivational: Provide a moving or inspiration picture with your own motivational text. Common motivational themes are goal-oriented and provide an action phrase.
Video Meme: These usually provide a bit more production, but video memes in the form of parody commercials or music videos and fun film shorts are great viral machines! Create a character or a spoof on a product or service.
Mores Memes: This type of meme points out social mores (a society or culture's norms, values, or traditions) and sheds a new light on the mores (either to generate discussion or to educate). It also can become a shared symbolic gesture to a community to show pride or humor.
Once you've made a meme, share it with friends, family, colleagues and more. Increase your memes viral-power by ensuring they are:
Relatable: Understandable and create the desired response.Sharable: Available on social networking sites like Facebook and Pinterest.Build a Response: Liked, shared, and discussed.Creating a meme is as easy as taking a picture and sharing, so why not join in on the meme revolution by creating your own memes? Let your imagination run wild!
Create your own memes to share with friends and family with Meme Something. Download Meme Something from iTunes at http://memesomething.com/, pick an existing photo from your library or take a new one, add text, and then share it with your friends. It's THAT easy!
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