6/6 Boyd + Dominguez


In “Truth is a virus: Meme Warfare and the Billionaire for Bush (or Gore),” Boyd discusses the influence of memes. Memes can go as far as spread political ideas to provide people a small laughter. The ideas of memes today can be more than just a laugh, it is carried in a more meaningful and direct yet indirect manner. For the everyday teenager, memes are something funny one shares with another and it has become a sensational trend with millennials. Even though major memes are straightforward funny, it can also be political and has viewers take another view of the meme. An example of this would be mainly all of the political memes involving Hilary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Donald Trump. All of the memes were relating to the recent presidential elections which included the candidates political view, scandals, and straight up roasts. It was relevant, at time, because it is making fun of the candidates, but also providing a platform for millennials to understand more of their presidential candidates.  The majority memes were actually making a big deal on how ignorant Trump, which is a fact. Even though such memes were out there for millennials, Donald Trump still became out president. RIP In relation to Dominguez’s reading, messages online are also seen as an act of cultural resistance. Therefore, political memes about the recent presidential election, I would say, many were angry memes from millennials of Trump. All of those memes were viral but is was also a way of resisting where the memes carried messages of about the government, its people, etc. in America. Memes can be more meaningful, it could be a media protest/resistance against society and political struggles, than just a viral thing. 

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