50 Funny Memes That You Might Want To Send To All Your Friends

There are lots of factors involved in making memes truly resonate with people. For one, they’ve got to be relatable. If memes don’t connect with human beings, they’re not successful memes. True memes are ideas, attitudes, beliefs, and points of view that go viral and spread within society.

Humor, though it certainly helps, isn’t technically necessary for this to happen.

However, something that is certainly vital is what emotions you decide to portray with your internet content and online communication. This isn’t as straightforward as you might think.

Positive content tends to be more viral than negative content. What’s more, virality tends to correlate with surprising, interesting, and practically useful content.

On top of that, virality also rises with how prominently the content is featured.

That being said, according to the authors of one study, the intensity of the emotions at play here is also important.

The researchers explain that virality is driven by “activation and arousal.” For example, content that evokes so-called high-arousal emotions, both positive (for example, awe) and negative (for instance, anger or anxiety), tends to be more viral.

On the other hand of the scale, content that focuses on low-arousal or deactivating emotions (for example, like sadness) often tends to be less viral.

“Sadness, anger, and anxiety are all negative emotions, but while sadder content is less viral, content that evokes anxiety or anger is actually more viral. Positive and negative emotions characterized by activation or arousal (i.e., awe, anxiety, and anger) are positively linked to virality, while emotions characterized by deactivation (i.e., sadness) are negatively linked,” the researchers explain.

According to the study, if your goal is to design a successful viral marketing campaign or craft contagious content, then you should aim to amuse your audience, rather than relax it.

So, for instance, advertisements that relax consumers or make them feel content won’t be as viral as those that amuse people.

Furthermore, if you want virality, you can’t avoid certain unpleasant emotions like anger and anxiety.

They can help your content spread further when used right.

On the other side of the scale is sadness, which you probably want to avoid as a marketer, organization, or content creator.

“Sadness actually has a negative impact on willingness to share, no matter whether the induced condition of sadness is low or high. Therefore, public health information, for example, is more likely to be passed on if it is framed to evoke anger or anxiety rather than sadness, which is more frequently encountered.”

Originally, the ‘Chumble’ page was created in mid-November of 2020. Over the past half-decade, the curator has amassed a following of 89k Facebook users. On top of that, the creator of ‘Chumble’ also runs an identically named account on YouTube, where they post various random, entertaining videos.

What’s on your mind, Pandas? Which of these memes amused you the most? Which ones took you by surprise and made you laugh aloud? Which memes were so relatable that you couldn’t help but say, ‘same’?

What's your favorite meme of all time? Tell us all about it in the comments! Oh, and if you haven’t already, don’t forget to upvote the pics that you enjoyed the most to give them a little boost upward.