>Internet memes are increasingly used to sway and possibly manipulate public opinion, thus prompting the need to study their propagation, evolution, and influence across the Web. In this paper, we detect and measure the propagation of memes across multiple Web communities, using a processing pipeline based on perceptual hashing and clustering techniques, and a dataset of 160M images from 2.6B posts gathered from Twitter, Reddit, Jow Forums's Politically Incorrect board (Jow Forums), and Gab over the course of 13 months. We group the images posted on fringe Web communities (Jow Forums, Gab, and The_Donald subreddit) into clusters, annotate them using meme metadata obtained from Know Your Meme, and also map images from mainstream communities (Twitter and Reddit) to the clusters.
>Our analysis provides an assessment of the popularity and diversity of memes in the context of each community, showing, e.g., that racist memes are extremely common in fringe Web communities. We also find a substantial number of politics-related memes on both mainstream and fringe Web communities, supporting media reports that memes might be used to enhance or harm politicians. Finally, we use Hawkes processes to model the interplay between Web communities and quantify their reciprocal influence, finding that Jow Forums substantially influences the meme ecosystem with the number of memes it produces, while The_Donald has a higher success rate in pushing them to other communities.
>finding that Jow Forums substantially influences the meme ecosystem with the number of memes it produces
Friendly reminder that there are people forced to treat your shitposts as an object of academic study RIGHT NOW.
arxiv.org
Internet memes are increasingly used to sway and possibly manipulate public opinion...
I am emperor of Japan, please gas the niggels
>forced to
I doubt it, I would LOVE to get payed for analyzing shitposting.
BASED
they are probaly slowly getting redpilled desu
The last page is HILARIOUS.
Look at the last page and page 14 that was quite interesting.
Are you reffering to pic related?
Yes.
Shit in a tide of shit. Just invalidating yourselves.
>racist memes
>ISIS Nazi Pepe
The clearly used MS Paint to crudely put that ISIS flag there
You can still see the corner of the JUDE star
WOMPWOMP
>demotivational posters
Are people still using those 10 year old memes?
One day I farted so hard, I shit my pants.
>figure 25 is a manipulated photo of the 6th author, originally taken as part of an interview for Nature News. Jow Forums seized upon this ex-ploitable opportunity and, during the course of one discussion thread 2, decided that he “definitely masturbates to beavers,” creating Figure 25 to prove the point.
This calls for a Darwin meme.
Which memes earned themselves the Darwin award?
That is listed on page 10.
The op 3 are, "Feels bad man/sad Frog", "Smug Frog" and "Happy Merchant".
>apustaja 4th
>spurdo 20th
Torille!
The Fin is a true Warrior in the brutal battlefields of the Meme war.
best ally
>implying racist memes aren`t fun
>'fun' memes
Even they had to put it in quotes
soft cunts
Nobody uses them
THANK YOU BASED JAPAN
>We focus on four Web communities: Twitter, Reddit, Gab, and Jow Forums’s Politically Incorrect board (Jow Forums), because of their impact on the information ecosystem [84] and anecdotal evidence of them disseminating weaponized memes
>weaponized memes
What a time to be alive
Kazumi a best girl.
Kek based nippon
Jow Forums needs volume
>Tony Kornheiser
No joking, these people know their shit
I am the legendary ultranigger, only quads can appease me.
Glass the jews, mace war now!
womp womp
Jawohl mein Herr
Horrible taste
imagine working at something like this, there are two options:
>you either get redpilled
>you will feel like the dumbest piece of shit of all time for having to analyze something that makes fun of you
This was true 5 years ago.
Now Jow Forums has split between right-wing racism and ancapistan