It’s important to make teens aware of what memes really mean. What one person finds funny could be offensive to another He now uses his viral fame to tell his story about being turned into a meme. What followed were other users adding macros and posting the photo as a meme, which soon became internet famous- along with cruel comments and death threats. It just seemed as if he was someone using his typewriter in public for no reason. The photo was cropped, so it wasn’t telling the whole story. A photo of him using his typewriter on a park bench got posted to Reddit, an infamous social media platform, without his permission. Hermelin, the person in the meme, was an aspiring writer. Take the “Roving Typist” meme, for example.
We don’t always think about the person behind the photo. Memes are popular to share and reblog, repost or retweet, especially among teens.
The photo gets block text, or macros, added on, to make it even more embarrassing. Most of the time, the photo is taken without permission and has poor quality. Memes start out as photos, which show the person in an unflattering light. Sometimes, we might think that the memes are funny, or we can relate to the person in the photo: after all, everyone has awkward moments. It’s not always clear why we post, or create memes. It’s rare to find someone who wants to be turned into a meme: It could mean being internet famous, but for all the wrong reasons. It’s easy to make a meme, and even easier to share or be in one. They’re photos of people, usually taken or posted without permission, with added text about the photo as a caption. If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many are in a meme?
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