1. Each meme relates to my target audience as they all talk about different sports, My first meme talks about how Washington capitals fans have fanbase that cannot win a title, my second meme talks about how all of the bandwagon NFL fans are going to be Philadelphia Eagles fans, my third meme talks about how the University of Arizona Basketball program are going under FBI and and NCAA controversy.
2. The ideal of a meme is the “concept or idea conveyed” (Davison, 123). The ideal of my first meme is that the Washington Capitals constantly fall short of winning championships which in turn causes their fanbase agony. The ideal of the second meme is that since the Philadelphia eagles won the Super Bowl, all of the bandwagon fans will become Eagles fans, and finally the ideal of the third meme is that The University of Arizona are going to be in trouble with the NCAA for paying their players, but insult to injury they were not able to win the NCAA national championship.
3. The behavior for all three of these memes is to show a relation to my blog topics. The origin of the 1st meme post is that it is named “One does not simply walk into Mordor” and it originated from The Lord of the Rings movie where the character in the meme says One does not simply walk into mordor, but the meme typically changes the latter part of that sentence and makes it into a funny meme. This meme spread from a ymtnd page and made its way onto Myspace, then google maps, and then onto modern social media sites such as Facebook and twitter. The 2nd meme’s origins are from a stock photo by photographer Antonion Guillem who posted their photo on iStock. This meme spread first from instagram who used it as a tag meme post and then to twitter where a user put text socialism on the girl who is being checked out and capitialism on the jealous girlfriends body. It then got on to reddit and became a mainstream meme. And the final meme’s origins is that it comes from a BBC documentary series called “Hood Documentaries” in which a character points to his head. This meme is spread as it is on twitter and talks about video games and then spreads through twitter and reddit.
4. The manifestation of a meme is the “observable, external phenomena” the manefistation for the 1st meme is that it is a man in who looks like he is explaining something, the manefisation of the 2nd meme is that it is a woman walking by with a man checking her out while her girlfriend looks on with jealousy, and the third meme’s manifestation is a man pointing at his head.
5. These manifestations that i have chosen are used to appeal to my target audience due to the fact that they are all very mainstream and popular memes.

 

Works cited

Confirmed Entries. (n.d.). Retrieved April 17, 2018, from http://knowyourmeme.com/memes

Davison, P. (2012). The social media reader. Retrieved April 16, 2018.