The funniest internet trends and memes create a community in the comments where the audience can come together to talk about how the posts made them feel. The comment section is a social space where the readers can meet people with similar tastes in humor to them, as well as learn about how a meme can be interpreted by others. For example, in the past week a video surfaced of a young boy yodeling in the isles of a Walmart Supermarket. This video was received with much love and affection. People in the comments reflected on how this little boy made their days as well as made them laugh. After a while this video became so popular that it was changed into a meme. People began making remixes of his song and filming themselves going out into a
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These posts will become popular when a person, or community such as Black Twitter, voices their opinion on how this post is damaging to the feelings of the ones it is about. For example, a popular meme a couple of weeks ago was taking two things and comparing them to the Krusty Krab and the Chum Bucket from the popular kids show Spongebob Squarepants. The Krusty Krab was meant to symbolize the best of the best and the Chum Bucket symbolized the worst of the worst. People would compare their favorite musicians, sports teams, or television shows, and those were well received and loved. However, once people ran out of innocent things to compare, it started to get ugly. Many posts surfaced of people comparing religions, races, and beliefs against one another. This naturally created a large dispute amongst the audience, since many people were feeling attacked by the post. The comments and replies were all of people fighting over which religion was best, or which race. Posts like these have a tougher lesson to be learned than the funny ones, but one is still present. The conflicting ideas in the comments may be tough for people to swallow, but they are teaching each other cultural acceptance and how to be respectful of people who are different by sharing personal experiences and history. These posts are a great example of a contact zone, because there are strong conflicting ideas coming together, and with that comes a large number of people learning about different
These posts will become popular when a person, or community such as Black Twitter, voices their opinion on how this post is damaging to the feelings of the ones it is about. For example, a popular meme a couple of weeks ago was taking two things and comparing them to the Krusty Krab and the Chum Bucket from the popular kids show Spongebob Squarepants. The Krusty Krab was meant to symbolize the best of the best and the Chum Bucket symbolized the worst of the worst. People would compare their favorite musicians, sports teams, or television shows, and those were well received and loved. However, once people ran out of innocent things to compare, it started to get ugly. Many posts surfaced of people comparing religions, races, and beliefs against one another. This naturally created a large dispute amongst the audience, since many people were feeling attacked by the post. The comments and replies were all of people fighting over which religion was best, or which race. Posts like these have a tougher lesson to be learned than the funny ones, but one is still present. The conflicting ideas in the comments may be tough for people to swallow, but they are teaching each other cultural acceptance and how to be respectful of people who are different by sharing personal experiences and history. These posts are a great example of a contact zone, because there are strong conflicting ideas coming together, and with that comes a large number of people learning about different