{"id":77,"date":"2017-01-10T14:22:52","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T14:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/danieljackson\/?p=77"},"modified":"2017-01-23T09:22:37","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T09:22:37","slug":"memes-love-spain-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/danieljackson\/2017\/01\/10\/memes-love-spain-hate\/","title":{"rendered":"Memes – We love them, Spain hate them"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sorry<\/span><\/h4>\n

Right. Let me just get something straight, like many people I decided to procrastinate a bit too much over Christmas regarding this. A tad too much mulled wine and now I’m here suddenly thinking – damn. I’ve left you all hanging.
\n“What am I going to do without all that amazing writing from dan” I can hear you scream.
\nNevertheless! I’m a changed man… for a bit. We shall see how long this lasts.
\nHere goes nothing.<\/p>\n

Please. Keep the memes<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

Real talk. Spain. What are you doing? Trying to ban memes?! That is definitely an absurd form of censorship. Much of today’s internet is based around memes. According to lifewire<\/a> An Internet meme can be almost any idea or concept expressed in some form of content on the web, which is why it can be so completely difficult to drill down to a real definition. They definitely aren’t kidding either. As a younger user of the internet, my Facebook is full of these “ideas”. I see a clip from Grand Theft Auto San Andreas ( which is from around 2005 mind you) fill my news feed as well as the presenter of pawn shop on the discovery channel. It’s as if there just isn’t a limit with memes.<\/p>\n

I guess in a sense Spains reason is ‘fine’. Stopping the unauthorised sharing of images that may or may not slander an individual. There has been evidence of memeing changing lives in both ways. Angry Cat had a book released thanks to his pictures that were shared. \u00a0Christopher Hermelin<\/a>\u00a0on the other hand\u00a0was criticised heavily for being a “hipster with a typewriter” receiving death threats from people on a Reddit thread as they believed it was just a bit of fun. swings and roundabouts eh?<\/p>\n

So yes, Mariano Rajoy<\/a> MAY be on to something (and I use the term may very loosely) If we were going to be honest about it though, I have a feeling that it’s his own best interests at heart. Not the protection of individuals. Naturally however, as soon as he mentioned the ban, memes were made of him. Like this one:<\/p>\n

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Credit:http:\/\/demigranteblog.blogspot.co.uk\/2015\/10\/memes-rajoy.html<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

On the more sophisticated side to memes, They let us poke fun and satirically view serious things in life. In most cases, they present the public with a medium to communicate an opinion without being too confrontational. When Rajoy went forward with this idea, naturally he the one thing he was trying to stop happened. He got, ‘memed’. That’s pretty catchy, I’m going to stick with that in my day to day I think.
\nHere is a video clip of just how much of an effect memes can have on people. The\u00a0positive side anyway<\/p>\n