Viral, Memes, & #hashtags

Comes from the word “virus" - it is when something spreads and is shared quickly.

• Viral

• Hashtag

• Youtube

• Shares

Videos are only one form of content that tend to go viral.

• True

• False

There's a very specific number of shares, likes, retweets, reblogs, or whatever other measure of interaction needed to be reached in order for something to claim "viral" status.

• True

• False

If you were to get a few hundred or thousand likes on an Instagram post when you're used to maybe getting 2 or 3 likes on average, did the post go viral?

• Yes

• No

Nobody knows the secret formula to going viral.

• True

• False

A virally-transmitted photograph that is embellished with text that pokes fun at a cultural symbol or social idea.

• Viral Video

• Meme

• Hashtag

• Social Media

A type of modern internet meme that has some element of humor.

• Humor Memes

• Urban Myth Memes

• Conversational Memes

• Political Memes

Memes that claim some kind of life lesson.

• Shock Memes

• Humor Memes

• Conversational Memes

• Urban Myth Meme

The majority of internet memes are transmitted by 20-something millennials.

• True

• False

What year was the word meme first introduced by evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkin.

• 1976

• 1992

• 2005

• 1954