Do you have the habit of using emojis when chatting with friends? Have you ever noticed the frequent trend of emojis on the internet? In fact, emojis have long become a part of entertaining our lives. Let’s observe why emojis are considered so magical through this video Oh Memes!
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Nice video blog! I love memes and it fascinates me how memes have become a unique form of modern communication. By evolving and spreading over time, memes have become some sort of language on their own. Apart from giving some light entertainment, it is interesting to see how memes can express complicated feelings and ideas in an accessible way and reflect our shared experiences in blurry pictures and texts in crappy fonts.
This was really fun to watch! While just consuming these content of memes, I do not really think about these aspects of it, but they are very true and valid. Memes are indeed so powerful actually, and the impact they have by just using readly available material and a few sentences is fascinating. It is also so true how niche some of them are according to culture or communities.