How are memes reshaping the way Gen Z Speaks?
Do you still recall when communication was all About Your Lips and Ears? Those days are long gone. Because I’ve seen the internet go from LOLcats to complex TikTok dances, it’s been interesting to see how memes have changed the way that young people talk to each other. It’s All About the New Language of the Internet Picture this: A teenager dealing with their friend’s relatively small issue, they say “pain 🥲” or just text the ‘This is fine’ dog meme. The feelings are as simple as sympathy, as sophisticated as irony, and even such a universal feeling as recognition of the fellow sufferer – and all that without spelling a full sentence. It is at such risk that lies the strength of this meme-based communication. Pew Research Centre conducted research and found that 97% of Gen Z uses social media and more than 70% of them use memes to communicate at least once a day. It is no longer about sharing pictures that make people laugh – memes are a highly evolved form of cultural signalling. The...