Memes to Movements: How the World's Most Viral Media Is Changing Social Protest and Power

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This used to be true but modern engines and synthetic oils can go up to 7,500 miles or more between changes Godzilla is undoubtedly a symbol of Japanese nuclear anxieties and more generally speaks to the dangers of science–or perhaps, runaway scientific progress. Canonically, the dinosaur-like monster was born from American nuclear testing in the Pacific. Though Godzilla “demonizes American nuclear science in an obvious reference to the atomic tragedies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” it also resonated with Americans' own nuclear anxieties by presenting them as something monstrous and “alien” ( Napier, 1993). Napier, quoting Andrew Tudor, writes that Godzilla belongs to the genre of “secure horror,” wherein the “collectivity” (e.g., society) is threatened by some external entity, but is ultimately saved by a scientific and governmental (i.e., human) intervention ( Napier, 1993).

In conclusion, regular oil changes are essential for keeping your engine running smoothly. Keeping up with simple maintenance routines such as following manufacturer guidelines, selecting the highest quality products and qualified service providers will make necessary repairs few and far between ,because let’s face it …no one wants to waste time and pay extra money for preventable damages So be sure to get yours changed regularly! The Top 5 Facts You Need to Know About the Oil Change MemeKapwing is a powerful online editor that you can use to create memes from images, GIFs, and videos online. It's one of the web's most popular meme makers and is the first meme generator to support videos. Join thousands of meme makers who use Kapwing every day.

If you’ve got the perfect image for your meme, you can upload it for free straight into Canva’s online meme maker. Drag it directly into your design layout and generate your meme within minutes. You can bring a favorite reaction photo from your gallery, a funny GIF from a movie, or a meme-worthy clip from your home video. This meme shows someone jumping for joy while driving their car after getting an oil change. We can all relate to feeling like a weight has been lifted off our shoulders when we finally get around to taking care of this task.A: Synthetic oils tend to perform better than conventional oils especially in extreme weather conditions as they provide better protection against engine wear and tear. Synthetic oils also last longer and offer better fuel efficiency compared to conventionals. It is however important to follow manufacturer’s recommendation for optimum performance. A treatise on modern society, most of us have to put on a set of masks each day just to face the world. We hide our suffering, even though almost all of us suffer in the same way. That facade of joy could be killing us, and we can be amazed what happens when we let it drop. 8. Once we have Agency & Dignity about the way we’re living our lives and we understand our role, that is when we can move together to make sure our species has a healthy place to live View in gallery via asustainablemind.com Fans of "Lord of the Rings" won't need an explanation for this meme. Actor Sean Bean played Boromir in the movies, and one of his famous lines, "One does not simply walk into Mordor," became the inspiration for a meme that plays on the phrase. To recap, change can be big and change can be small, but in the end, they all start with you making a choice to change something and then taking action.

When they blindside you on a Tuesday evening, right before you go to bed? They can be downright terrifying.After Steven Crowder, a conservative podcaster, posted a photo of himself in 2018 sitting at a desk with a sign saying "Male privilege is a myth: Change my mind," it was almost too easy for the internet to begin making fun of him with memes of their own. Memes ranged from simply changing the words on the sign to elaborate photoshops. Written one year after the first Earth Day in 1970 and at the beginning of the environmental movement, The Lorax provided several takeaway messages for a budding environmentalism. Dr. Seuss painted the fictional world of Thneedville with words and images of fertile land with thriving ecosystems and smiling animals that starkly contrasts the antagonists, the Once-ler's, desire for profit that eventually leaves the land dark and barren. Warnings of a post-apocalyptic world, messages on environmental degradation, a nod toward the dangers of capitalism, and an individual character with determination to save trees are interwoven through the book. Environmentalists identify with the Lorax's representation of being an environmental crusader. The Lorax is met with resistance and stubbornness from the Once-ler just as today's environmentalists are met with resistance from corporations and capitalism. The Lorax, representing today's activist fighting against corporations, is captured perfectly in the political image of the Lorax wearing a t-shirt of Exxon, Pepsico, and Doritos, common corporations that environmentalists identify as the antagonist. From "I need dis" to "Nyan Cat," there really isn't one subject that encompasses the internet's love of memes better than cats. Since the 2000s when "keyboard cat" first made an appearance on YouTube, people have been posting funny images of felines paired with hilarious text. Over the last few decades, rhetoric and writing studies have broadly seen overlapping turns toward understanding distributed models of communication ( Edbauer, 2005). This shift has brought renewed interest in the rhetorical canon of delivery ( Trimbur, 2000) and in the affective dimensions of information flow ( Lotier, 2018) coalescing under the banner of circulation studies (such as Hawk, 2007; Brooke, 2009; Ridolfo and DeVoss, 2009; Eyman, 2015; Gries, 2015, 2016, 2017). At the same time, scholars interested in the rhetoric of science, technology, and medicine (RSTM) have begun to outline the importance of interdisciplinary environmental communication research ( Cagle and Tillery, 2015), trace the rhetorical dimensions of visualizations ( Olman and DeVasto, 2020) and the use of other digital media in science and environmental communication ( Cagle, 2021). At the same time, scholars have begun to investigate the connections between scholarship in memetics and digital rhetoric with “everyday digital users” ( Sparby, 2022). Rather than defining memes solely as image macros, Sparby deploys the term “memetic screen” to describe “the ways in which users and their experiences cause them to see and create the world in specific ways through the memes they encounter, create, circulate, and recirculate” (6). These screens better account for the multimodal dimensions of images and text as they circulate online. Memetics offer a more dynamic range of engagements with the ways that images participate in larger cultural discourses as they transform and circulate.