For many users, memes are the salt in the Internet soup. In fact, the often graphically simple, but usually funny, little pictures have become a culture in their own right that is hard to escape. Some even see de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme_(Kulturph%C3%A4nomen) (memes today as an art form in their own right).
And as is the case with culture and art, there are now also real "classics" in the meme universe, which has been growing for decades. And, of course, there are also guides for boomers who don't know anything about most memes. 
KnowYourMeme, for example, is an Internet database, which attempts to keep a meticulous record of all relevant memes and clarify their origin and meaning. Also trends can be tracked down here on the side. Relevant memes usually even make it to in Wikipedia.
In short, if you are on the Internet, you will find memes on every corner, the background of which you should know in order to understand the underlying allusion. This in turn leads to particularly well-known memes now quoting themselves or alluding to themselves in variations.
An AI is now apparently boosting their viral spread. More precisely, Runway ML or Stable Video Diffusion, with whose new, improved possibilities still images can be "spun on" as moving video clips.
This setting did not originally exist for the distracted boyfriend meme
As most of the links are shorts or Twitter channels, these videos cannot be embedded directly here, but many slashCAM readers are likely to be familiar with this one or this meme. Just how different variations of the same meme can be is demonstrated by this Twitter/X thread.
At the same time, it is also clear that we will certainly see further milestones in AI animation in 2024. And until then, we are happy to be entertained by AI-animated memes.
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