This visualisation describes the ecosystem of memes produced by an active community of creators and activists on Reddit. The examined contents are contextualised into a particular event: the 2019 Hong Kong Protests. In detail, last month’s contents posted on r/HongKong was labelled to find out shared targets and main meme’s subjects in the construction of the iconography of Anti-ELAB movement.
Main Findings
A huge number of circles is relative to the videogaming world.
The totality of memes in r/HongKong is involving the protest and the behaviour of companies, governments and public figures.
A large part of these memes can’t be traced back to a pre-existing one format, according to the classification made by KnowYourMeme.com Internet Database.
Some memes are mostly used to hit a specific target.
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