Memes, GIFs, and Stickers: The New Language of the Internet

6 hours ago

Look, the culture of memes and gifs is quite old. And what to say about emojis and other types of stickers, you must have used them sometime or the other. When I was in college, Hike and WeChat were very popular in India at that time. These were closed later but because WeChat was a Chinese company, it was banned. Look, when I was in college, it was around 2013, then the use of internet was not that much in India because the internet speed was very slow and the plans used to be very expensive. But after Jio came, everything changed and the consumption of internet in India had increased a lot. Earlier, YouTube was not used at all, very few people used to visit YouTube in India but after the advent of internet, it seemed as if YouTube has taken over it. See, whenever you want to talk about something, if you are unable to talk, then you use GIF files or emojis to show your emotions. Well, nowadays many stickers have come.

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I used to use this website a lot imgflip, I really miss those days. At that time I only used to make memes post only. Earlier I used to make a lot of videos and to be honest my content was specifically on memes. Back then I did not have much content, I used to present my content through memes only. And now I am so addicted to emojis and gif files that my life seems incomplete without them. Maybe you too have got used to all these things. There are so many amazing things. You get stickers and other things with which you can have side effects on each other. You can also make your own with stickers. There are so many facilities available nowadays.

A world without memes and GIFs - :

See, to tell you the truth, I have become so much habituated to all these things that I cannot even imagine life without them because often when I chat with anyone, be it WhatsApp, Discord or any other platform, I use GIF files and emojis a lot there and sometimes stickers also. Basically, my time is spent on only two platforms and the third one is Hive, here also I try to get more engagement through GIF files, some people like it and some people don't like it that much, maybe here is the way. You see, everyone has a different way of talking, some people enjoy writing big messages but I feel good in presenting my thoughts through small images.

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Look everyone has their likes and dislikes, I like it a lot and some people find it very irritating but when I realize this then I just text them without any emojis and other things. So to be honest this is very important for me and because I am a bit introvert and a shy type of person due to which it is very helpful for me, it plays a very important role in expressing my feelings to them, what do you think about this. Maybe I can't even think of chatting without it because I have become quite addicted to all these things and all these things have become very important for me for now.

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