What makes a meme go viral according to University of Memphis scientists
Daily MailThe Success Kid, Bad Luck Brian and Overly Attached Girlfriend are all well-known memes, but what makes them more popular than others? Scroll down for video The Success Kid, Bad Luck Brian and Overly Attached Girlfriend are all well-known memes, but makes them more popular than others? That's One Grumpy Cat Source: Inbound Marketing 'Kilroy was here', the text read next to a bald headed man, with a prominent nose, peeking over a wall with the little fingers hanging on to what looks like a wall was the start of the memes. The researchers selected 268 memes from knowyourmeme.com and fed them through linguistic analysis tools to learn more about the number of linguistic features, as Scott Shank summarizes in his article 'What Makes Memes Popular?
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