Have you ever noticed how the pictures that your tagged in on Facebook end up being the most hideous pictures of you? Like you always post the most beautiful and polished photos of yourself to make your profile look great. Naturally. But what about those gosh darn tagged pictures? The one from that time when you had that really bad haircut in middle school? Or the time you broke your nose and blood was gushing everywhere? Or that one where someone caught you perfectly right in the middle of a sneeze? Yeahhhhhhhh...... all those. Those are the best, right?

I bring up these horrendous pictures to make the claim that these pictures are necessary. They are important. They are valuable. Why, you might be asking yourself. Well I can tell you in one word. Memes. Yes, that's right. Memes. If there was never an embarrassing or awkward picture taken of anyone, what would we use to make memes with?

The question is, what makes a meme successful? What makes it get shared to the point that everyone knows exactly what meme you're talking about when you only use a few words to describe it? Is it the picture itself? The meaning of it? The joke? The pun? Is it based on who shares it or what platform it's shared on? 

The truth is, I have no idea. All I know is I enjoy memes. I enjoy making them and seeing them. I like making myself and my friends into memes too. (But these don't get many shares.) 

So my conclusion is...

what causes memes to be successful, but

And because of that love,