Blog post 7/10 (Hyejoo)

I've really never thought so much about memes before this week, but a quick thought/question: how much does language and shared cultural references impede the spread of memes? Are memes, and their meme-ability, linguistically, culturally, and dare I say nationally bounded? Obviously not all of them (there are a lot of Pepe the Frog memes in Korean as well), but to prove my point, here are... 1) a Korean meme, 2) a Mandarin meme, and 3) a Cantonese meme. The last two come from a famous Chinese drama and a famous Hong Kong movie, respectively. 

I suspect no one in this class (except maybe Ray or Max lol, but please correct me if you do!) would understand these, and I find that interesting in and of itself. I had to ask my Hong Kong colleague for those last 2, actually, and it was also a funny process of her trying to explain it all to me. The labor it goes into explaining memes, especially if one party doesn't "get it," is also quite fascinating.