For the meme assignment, I focused on two genres: photoshop and stock characters with captions. I even tried to combine the two. I found this assignment to be rather hard. I did not know where to start. Given that I have seen a lot of great memes in my day, I felt real pressure to make some golden memes.
I decided to go safe and stick with cat memes. Cats are adorable and make people happy therefore touching upon the high arousal positive imagery content. I focused on on displaying visual incongruity, simplicity, and quirky humor.
The second and third meme show visual incongruity. The cat is taking on a human traits and posture. In the third one, the cat is rather giant in a domestic setting, which is not normal. All these memes are simple. They are mostly in a domestic setting expect the second one and still it is a simple photoshop edit. As far as quirky humor, I believe any cat meme is quirky humor. These memes are super corny and dry, but that’s want makes you want yo chuckle.
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