Memes and Gifs
Warning! The examples in most of these articles are for a more mature audience.
Memes
Essentially, ideas are living thing that change and grow over time. Here’s an example. Here’s Boromir from The Lord of the Rings movie and his reaction to the plan:
It grows into an thought that can show the feelings of so many library patrons:
Often memes are gifs. But below are a series of links concerning the details.
- Here’s a helpful article on what a Meme is: http://mentalfloss.com/article/61843/what-is-a-meme
- First, Internet, Meme: Dancing Baby. But for a NSFW explanation and pre-internet Memes: https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/first-meme-ever
- Below is a good article on tracing the evolution of memes, like fairy tales being passed from culture to culture: http://www.dictionary.com/e/the-original-memes-before-memes-listicle/?param=HP
All these texts are communicated from person to person, passed down over generations and across cultures. Yeh-Shen is Rhodopis is Chinye is Ashpet is Cinderella is Ella Enchanted
- One last link, this time about the font on the pics: http://mentalfloss.com/article/537117/if-youve-ever-connected-app-through-facebook-it-has-access-your-data-heres-how-change
- There are plenty of generators: https://www.google.com/search?q=meme+generator&oq=meme+generat&aqs=chrome.0.0j69i57j0l4.2282j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
- But ultimately, all you need is a popular picture and a PowerPoint (or Google Slides).
Gifs
History
The use of a Gif has changed a bit over time. Below is an article on that evolution:
https://www.wired.com/2017/05/gif-turns-30-ancient-format-changed-internet/
Generators
Again, there are plenty of generators and this time you DO need one.
Pronunciation
Steve Wilhite created the Graphics Interchange Format, or GIF, while working for Compuserve in 1987 and in 2013 he said it’s jif not gif.
https://www.cnn.com/2013/05/22/tech/web/pronounce-gif/index.html
But the controversy lives on. As evidenced by this article in NY Daily News in 2017
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/pronounce-gif-article-1.3007037
Food for Thought
Or rather Phrase for Thought, Web 2.0 is the term that defines the era of user generated content on The Internet. Memes, gifs, blogs, social media only because possible when the process for adding content to the web became more simple.
