For my viral meme, I decided to use a public figure who is known to say whatever is on his mind that is found to be both relevant and good points, but also funny in a way. Kanye West is a musician and public figure that is known to speak his mind. The fact that he is a global icon also gave the meme more relevancy because people immediately know what kind of content he posts or who he is. I thought to use something about social media because almost everyone who is on Imgur uses social media and could maybe relate to the content the meme hints at. Originally, I posted my meme on Twitter, and followed up with a retweet after 3 days. Then, I posted on my instagram for the class, and actually received a message from a meme account saying they found my meme great! What worked for me to promote my meme was sending the link to my friends through groupme, (a communication group app), sharing the link on my main instagram account, and tweeting it to my personal twitter account. The objective was to get a reaction from anyone who saw. I noticed my view count and up arrow count grew after I had posted the link onto my Facebook as well as my main instagram account. I had a little bit of issues with sending the link to people, as I got many responses saying they cannot access the up arrow feature because many people did not have a Imgur account. But, this did help my view count go up regardless. Using hashtags such as #meme, #funny, #lol and #imgur may have helped my Imgur meme become more relevant and viewable to others looking for some funny memes.
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Total views: 361
Up arrows: 9
I received 9 up arrows on my meme, and on Twitter I received a like from someone I do not personally know or follow. Since creating my original meme, this was the third and final. I had put my first image on Imgur and people seemed to not get it as much as this meme. I chose this meme because it received the most positive reactions from those I know personally and those I do not. What I would have done if I had to redo the assignment is create my first original meme that doesn’t necessarily align with my own personal humor (which is dry and sarcastic) to something that a broader more general crowd could understand in order to gain more positive traction.