A meme is a picture or a video that portrays the idea, style or behavior of a person that spread through imitation by other people. It carries a meaning to the people using it and always circulated through the media and the internet. Memes are often used by the youths as a factor of entertainment and fun. They circulate them through social media such as Facebook, WhatsApp and some blogs.
Memes are always a factor of peer pressure. Youths are always doing something because they want to impress others or they think since other peoples have done they also want to do it. In the current generation most youths don’t do things for their own good they mostly do because their friends do it.
Let’s take for instance a meme which says drugs are good and a number of people use drugs they will use it for their advantage and most people who don’t use drugs will want to try it out. It will change their thinking on drugs or their perspectives and maybe start using drugs. This shows that no matter how we can’t take memes seriously sometimes they have a negative effect on us or the people viewing them.
They can be bad influence to the youth mostly. There was once this meme video that went viral, it was about people climbing on crates and they would literally fall and it was very dangerous even though how dangerous it was most people tried out the challenge and ended up being badly injured.
Even those who knew they couldn’t actually do it tried it. Even the fat and those who are not flexible. Even though memes are fun that doesn’t mean that anybody can try it out. It might be dangerous and deadly mostly to our health and body.
Memes are the best stress reliever. Most of the people and the youth can confirm this. When one feels down and even depressed they can decide to view memes as a stress reliever and makes it to its perfection. Memes are the only way to bring yourself high when you are low this can be explained through the reason that it makes one laugh and forget about the things they have gone through. This makes an easier way of living a happy life through the entertainment and daily routine without any stress or depressions.
Most memes encourages abusive language. Memes are the main reason why most youths use abusive languages. This is since most of the youths are guided by what to say and do by the memes. People mostly viewing the memes will copy everything being said or being done and the abuses too.
This also shows how memes have corrupted minds of the youth to an extent they can’t think of what’s right and wrong. The main idea to this is that youth will use abusive language on each other and don’t care on what they say and whose feelings they are hurting. This will also be inherited to the younger children who will see what they are doing and saying and try to imitate them.
Memes encourages cyber bullying. Most of the picture and video memes always enhances cyber bullying through body shaming. Youths always take body shaming as a no big deal but what about the person with the body being shammed? How do you think they feel?
Most youth don’t get it that not everyone will take their words lightly some will be hurt and may not show that he or she is offended. Most of the body shaming is through the body shape of the person. The people who do this may not see that sometimes it hurts people and do it for fun but they should consider their statements and comments.
Memes helps in counseling. Even though memes can have bad disadvantages they can also have advantages and help in counseling a person on what to do. It can tell you when you are wrong and tell you to apologize instead of being egoistic.
They also give out inspiration when one may have a lot occupying their mind. It is acts as guidance to our emotions maybe on feelings and some nice quotes.
In conclusion memes can have a good or bad affect in our lives. It guides us on what is wrong and what’s right. This means that meme is advantageous to some and disadvantageous in some ways.
To the youths before imitating anything you saw or read on a meme, ask yourself is this the right thing? Don’t take chances you may hurt many people without knowing.
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