Memes, as digital artifacts shared on social media, play a crucial role in how young people process emotions and experiences. Following events like 9/11, individuals had limited ways to share feelings publicly; however, today’s dynamic internet offers a platform for humor and connection. Memes help navigate complex emotions, acting as tools for self-expression and community bonding. Their creation and distribution reflect a deeper relationship between media producers and consumers that fosters both individual and collective emotional processing.
Today, young people can make sense of the world around them in the public sphere, thanks to a much larger and more powerful internet, with social media and memes circulated on it.
Memes serve as digital artifacts that are sometimes seemingly simple, often humorous, but generally carry a deeper meaning, serving as a way to process negative feelings.
For young people, memes are often a way to process negative feelings and attempt to understand potentially chaotic, disturbing, or confusing circumstances.
The act of creating and consuming memes can not only impact emotions and one’s self-expression of identity, but they can also bring a sense of closeness with others.
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