The topic, ‘Distributed Media and Meme Warfare’ is about the power simple memes withhold and impact on society’s way of thinking and processing.

The internet is a strange, very strange place. It takes things, it can literally be anything and twist it to convert into something an individual would have never even thought of in the first place.

Meme warfare allows the chance for individuals to display their interests and thoughts in a metaphorical, innovative way.

People can take it one way or another.

It’s a remediation and a twist of things. It’s a joke of a joke.

This week’s topic was fascinating. If you think about it, it’s a funny concept how pictures that make no sense with the most random captions posted on the internet holds such great entertainment for individuals to be left to investigate the meaning of it themselves. It could be interpreted in many different ways.

In a way the idea of ‘natural selection’ is very related to memes as the most superior ideas are the ones that stay relevant and are passed on and on and on.

A meme is literally something that is remembered, interpreted and then spread like Chinese whispers from one person to the other. It is so easy to find a meme within the internet world.

The meme warfare is about the way in which a meme can fixate and influence one’s opinion. It additionally challenges against advertising and public relations through conveying and depicting a person’s opinion. This can be a problem as memes are not always very reliable sources, ultimately people could be depicting their opinions based off something that is not true.

The odder and out there a meme is, the higher the chance of the meme to go viral on the internet, worldwide, and therefore influence one’s opinion one way or another.

The strategist, How memes are becoming the new frontier of information warfare (2020) https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/how-memes-are-becoming-the-new-frontier-of-information-warfare/

The guardian (2021) https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/04/political-memes-2016-election-hillary-clinton-donald-trump