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Vine Meme's

With the creation of Vine , one of the social media giants that allow its users to upload several seconds of video or picture content, it broke the barrier between internet Meme and social media memes. This gave many users the platform to use Vine and similar social media to upload their own content of Memes. This brought popularity, money and fame to users such as King Bach, Amanda Cerny, and Welven Da Great, which Welven Da Great is most popular for his viral meme containing the phrase "Deez Nuts". Vine Meme's have gained a lot of attention in its few year of being active, even appearing on major news stations such as ABC. Vine Meme’s have taken over social media, especially with the rap culture such as Drake, every time he releases a music video, shortly after that there are already meme’s using content from his music video.

History

Meme’s were originally only found in websites such as 4chan and Reddit in the early 2000's, before gaining popularity and quickly spreading. Then it began being used on social media giants such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram etc. The first internet memes contained an image, with a catchphrase which was only known to certain users of the subject, but due to its gaining popularity, there are hundreds of available memes, with even the access to users creating their own meme’s on certain websites. These meme’s were only known to be a picture, a catch phrase, and meaning, most of which were comedic or entertaining. However, Vine gave its users the ability of taking that picture, and turning it into a video, vastly broadening the meme’s purpose and entertainment value.

Effect on Social Media

Vine Meme’s can be seen all over social media giants, and have a huge effect on it’s users. With viral dances, to catchphrases constantly emerging, fame and stardom have caused many Viners to use this as a tool for a living. King Bach used to promote his content through YouTube, but ever since he used Vine to broadcast his content, he’s been listed #1 by Vine as the top viner for his entertaining skits. King Bach now stars in MTV’s Wild n’ out alongside other popular YouTube and has teamed up with Comedians Key and Peele fore new upcoming TV show. Another shot to fame is Welven Da Great due to his popular catchphrase “Deez Nuts”. Welven Da Great’s catchphrase has led to countless reiterations and remixes to it. Welven Da Great fame also has to deal with his physical appearance, while many make fun of him for it; he has become so popular that he has also appeared in commercials. His catchphrase is so popular that a 15 year old presidency candidate under the name Deez Nuts with much reaction from several news stations. However, from Welven Da Great's infamous line there are famous recent memes such as Jose Bautista from the Toronto Blue Jays baseball team, and his bat flip which was one for the ages. This home run caused the spawn of many memes and reiterations of the bat flip which help Toronto beat Texas in the ALDS series.

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