Know Your Memes

Some art memes:

This meme relates to my topic and target audience because it relates to art and drawing, as well as photography and modeling. The ideals of this meme, meaning the “aggregate of all manifestations of that meme” are represented through the way this meme circulated (Davidson). The main ideals are poking fun and using humor to add the caption “Draw me as one of your french girls” on funny and cute photos of pets. The Behaviors of this meme come from circulation on tumblr, and originate from a scene from the Titanic where Rose asks Jack to draw her like one of his French girls. This meme manifests on social media and is popular among a wide variety of people, including adults; this is in opposition to a different manifestation of a meme that might have more of a niche interest. This is in conjunction with my audience of my blog because anyone could relate to it.

This meme, minimalist pixel art, relates to my topic and target audience because it has to do with using digital art and color schemes to create a suggestion to a more “whole image.” This meme originates with the video game blog InfiniteContinues which used this style, and it manifested within video game culture and was even used in a Lego advertisement. This is a niche meme so it manifests on smaller more niche platforms, however it fits on my site and for my target audience because the content relates to art.

This meme, the emoji movie meme, relates to my topic because it has to do with animation and also cinema and film. Anyone who follows film knows that when this movie came out, it was so horrible that it essentially became a meme. It originated at its premiere and has become a cultural icon within film and animation ever since. It manifests through blog posts and social media. This fits on my site because it relates to film and my audience might find it humorous and interesting, even though it is a subculture meme.