Edwin Madu
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The internet speaks memes. With over 4.5 billion active internet users and over 6,000 languages and dialects spoken worldwide, memes provide us with a universal language.
Let’s say I follow a Twitter user who predominantly tweets in Swahili. If one day she tweeted the following meme with the caption “PS5???”:
I don’t need to speak Swahili to understand what she’s trying to say. Going by the meme and caption, I can guess that she just discovered the price of the gaming console.
And this is the beauty of memes: they help us convey our thoughts by employing elements of pop culture and human mannerisms.