Do young people really want to live without memes?

Recently, a survey found that more than 70% of college students use memes to express their emotions, and more than 60% of respondents believe that memes are easy to express friendliness and are accustomed to alleviating embarrassment through memes. Young people have their own set of social language codes. For them, words are rational and memes are the best way to express sensibility, cross-linguistically and purely.

With memes, some young people who call themselves "social fear" have become online social butterflies flying up and down, sometimes creating an aura of people who don't talk much, and sometimes becoming a mask for complex society and real life, through self-deprecation and ridicule, venting negative emotions and achieving self-healing. Everyone can participate in the production and sharing of memes.

Graphic symbols dissolve serious discourse to a certain extent, bringing greater autonomy to the expression of young groups. This kind of anti-objectorism in expression is something that the younger generation enjoys. The expression of young people is worth understanding.

But we also need to see that in today's large-scale use of memes to express emotions, the degradation of language organization ability is also worthy of vigilance. Careful wording is a kind of training. Conveying semantics by image signals has the advantage of convenience and directness over more abstract text symbols, but just as words are born out of images, they have not been able to catch complex things, delicate emotions, and profound thoughts.

After all, the emoji represented by the image can only be a supplement to the normal text expression in a specific circle. Young people should reshape their sense of language, say what they say on what occasions, and have specific forms of language expression. When memes have taken a strong place in life, vigilance and reflection obviously cannot be missing.

Source: Guangming Daily