I am here with a guide to instruct you on a essential millennial life skill; How to make memes. Some people love memes and break them out like sick beats on their new hot fire mixtape. Some people detest memes to the point where they wish for people who use them to catch on fire. This guide may not help you generate memes that become the the next viral ones, but the ones produced will at least be amusing to you and maybe some friends.
1. Find something that has meaning to you
There's no point in having something bouncing back and forth in conversations if they have no meaning. Choose an object or saying that represents your happiness, sarcasm, irony, or other emotions.
2. Get a friend
Having a friend is recommended. If you don't have a friend, you can talk to yourself in the mirror. If you don't want to appear odd in public or at home, possibly consider mentally talking to yourself instead. The purpose of this step is to have another being to ricochet the meme on.
3. Create a memorable phrase or hashtag
The saying shouldn't be too long nor too short. You might not remember how to spell something like “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”. On the flip side, you might mistake short sayings for typos. For example, I could coin the term “ah” to stand for “all happy”. I would then say “Ah. I’m ah.” The two letters read more like a strange pause or moan rather than the intended term.
4. Use your meme as much as possible
My current flatmate is annoyed to the ends of the Earth with me whenever I whip out a meme from our general psychology class. (I basically turned most of the course’s content into memes during spring semester in order to study.) I can’t recall most of them now, but one main one was “block my adenosine receptors”. A buildup of adenosine causes us to feel tired. By blocking the receptors with substances, such as caffeine, we can delay the feeling of fatigue. I originally used this phrase during finals week when I was sleep deprived but needed more time to study. Eventually my flatmate started using the phrase as well. Now we both use it for any situation in which we’re tired but have other things that we need to do.
5. Create alternative representations of your meme
This step is more or less optional. Creating your meme in a multitude of forms releases it from being pixelated letters on various screen. You could make a picture, video, or mixtape to accompany it. I have a mixtape track list of my biology related memes, but it’s not yet ready for the public.
Now, go forth into the world and spread smiles or cringes.
