For this set of memes, the first theme I could think of that many people could relate to was students going through virtual school. With the primary audience being younger students and parents who are still adjusting to virtual school. I believe that younger generations of students are heavily affected while going though this pandemic cause many of them have not learned how they have to study to learn the material. Now we see these students being put into a virtual format where the students have to hold themselves accountable for doing the work not the teachers. This has led to students having a hard time adjusting to online learning and want to be back to in-person classes. This idea is brought up in “McCoy investigates Gen Z and remote Learning” when McCoy said, “Gen Z students are better at focusing in a classroom… but they do have a shorter attention span than their millennial counterparts.” In this virtual format it is hard to keep younger students engaged with learning if its not interactive. The goal in creating these memes was so students and parents could have a laugh because they know the students are not learning the material anywhere near as well as they would be if they were back to in-person classes. This can be seen with the first meme as my fourth-grade sister climbed back in bed after only joining class for 2 minutes. The second meme shows the pain on her face of clicking into the website later in the day to see six more assignments get added, where she has no idea how to do the homework. The third memes goal is to show a humorous image of a student turning to a dog to get help to understand the algebra homework. All three of these memes use a simple white font so the viewer can easily read and understand the memes. These memes are capitalizing on the current pandemic we are all going through, which is why I believe these memes would be shareable between others going though similar experiences of virtual learning. The first meme especially would be shareable as most students understand the pain of rolling out of bed at 7:58 for an 8:00 meeting. When they get there, they see it’s the teacher lecturing where the students don’t need to have the camera on. At some point during the meeting the idea of muting the microphone and going back to bed comes through every student’s mind. The second and third meme are shareable as well as every student has that time when they check the assignments and have no idea what they are doing where they will go anywhere, they can to get the answers for the assignment. These memes can be easily modified as there is minimal text on the images, where they could be edited to look towards an audience of people working from home possibly. The first meme could possibly go viral because every student has been in that scenario of debating whether staying for lecture is a waste of time or not. The third one also has potential to go viral if I could have dressed the dog up to make it seem like its teaching my her how to do the assignments.
Digital Age Writing 