These days everyone knows about memes. They are so common that people of every age can relate to them and they are also fairly easy to find as well. It is fairly common that most of us have our own personal accounts on all the major social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter. Whenever you open your accounts you will find plenty of such funny memes spread across the wall. It also engages a lot of people to comment under them and share them as well. This effectively determines if a meme is popular or not. There are instances of memes that got popular within a few hours. These memes are such that appeals to all kind of people.

The definition of meme

The word meme was first used by the famous British biologist Richard Darwin. He used the term meme in his book The Selfish Gene that was published in the year 1976. He stated that just like a gene, memes are also replicated from one brain to another. The most common examples cited by him are fashion, a melody, a joke or a belief. These are something that can be replicated from one person to another at a very fast rate. On the other hand, in the internet world meme is nothing but an image or a video that is shared by a large amount of people with the help of numerous social media websites, emails and blogs. Memes are normally funny pictures with an equally funny caption that describes an epic failure or an impressive triumph. Also, there is another kind of memes available and that is where the caption imitates the behavior of the picture and is commonly known as meme parodies. The caption is put in so that the meme is humorous.

Caption

Putting the caption on the images is a very integral part while creating a meme and is also the most popular way of creating a meme. Once the image is posted, it is up to your friends, family members, colleagues to put their respective captions. This caption can be put by anyone who is going through the image. Captions is the best way to share a funny incident and the pictures that can be used could be anything from a funny picture of an animal like a dog, cat, lion or deer and other pictures could be a famous scene of a very popular movie or a TV show, preferably a sitcom. Also, another kind of image that is popularly used is from a memorable sports incident. You can simply post the meme on your Facebook wall and people can watch it and comment on it and also if they like it they will also share the image to their friends as well.

Formatted memes

This is a kind of meme where a series of pictures are used. Some of the most common are sports memes where three or four images of different players or even the same player are used to create a meme. It becomes funnier when you put separate caption to each photo. Another example of such meme is “what my mother thinks I do and what I actually do.” This is a kind of meme that is found on a regular basis and are also very popular as well. There are numerous websites available in the internet where they allow you to submit your best meme. These websites also provide you with the most popular meme faces that you can also use for your meme as well. At the same time there are community for meme generators as well which will keep you posted with all the latest memes.