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Internet Memes as Stress Buster in the Time of COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

Humour is a powerful code of sending messages. Internet memes are the best medium to use this technique in sending the message to internet users. Instagram the photo-sharing networking site has emerged as a popular social networking site for memes among youths. This study uses two Instagram pages to find what kind of content got more likes and comments during the quarantine of ‘Covid-19’. What are the viral expressions of memes that had been more popular for Covid-19? This study uses content analysis. The data had been categorised on the basis of humour theory. The result shows that those memes get more comments that ask some sort of questions, those memes get more those who have emotional appeals, self-defeating, and satire. Most of the COVID-19 memes expressions are about releasing stress in the form of humour. 

Laxmi Mishra*

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