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Surely, even without knowing it, all of you have seen some meme by Internet, or even outside the network of networks, since the popularity of these images has taken them outside the online field to become a cultural phenomenon that could well end up being iconic Of the era we live in

A meme is an image taken out of context, usually accompanied by a phrase, whose objective is to make a joke about something, act as the equivalent of a funny comment, or "stay-in" with someone replying to him. It is precisely in the replies on the Internet forums, where the memes they have been born and gained visibility.

As memes, animated images are also considered in Format GIFs and even small videos no more than a few seconds long.

In addition to a photograph, the meme can also be a He drew or a digital editing job resulting from the composition of several images.

Used as a mirror in Internet forums

A quality highly appreciated by Internet users who use memes is that the images can be reused with different texts and in different contexts, even if they are very similar.

Likewise, in the case of animated images, this same quality is also highly appreciated.

The most famous memes

It is therefore that I am not going to talk about famous memes with him. text included, but from the images that have made them possible, since, in this way, you can create your own memes.

The first of these images is that of the so-called forever alone, a drawing that is often presented in the form of four vignettes, and whose central character inevitably ends up alone (hence its name).

The scene “this is Sparta!”From film 300, as well as the encounter between Spartans and Thebans and the subsequent dialogue, have been the subject of memes, some of them in the form of photography static, bullet points or animated GIF.

Another film, this time the German Collapse, in the scene in which Hitler's character flies into a rage in his office surrounded by his generals, he has also been the subject of both a static image meme and dubbing apocryphal making fun of other very diverse subjects.

Business cat is the image of a cat dressed in a tie, while the so-called racist dog it is nothing more than a photo of a dog with glasses (which make it more "intellectual" ...).

Real or fictional characters such as Chuck Norris, Bear Grylls, Homer Simpson, Willy Wonka, the stormtroopers (the soldiers "Baddies" from the Star Wars saga), Jackie Chan or former basketball player Yao Ming, also have their images circulating in form of meme

How do you create a meme?

It is very easy to create a meme: you just have to take one of the thousands of images that run on the Internet and that can easily serve as the basis for almost any phrase you want to write, or take a photograph ourselves to use later, and this can even launch us to fame. From here, a retouching and drawing program will allow us to insert the texts that will make up the meme.

We can also use an online service that allows us to automatically generate a meme, choosing a common image of a database and adding a text to it. We can even do it from our smartphone with a app as is MemeGenerator, available for Android.

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