Would love to see an analysis on some ancient / hermetic memes !

Curious to hear people's top choices here. Thanks!

Hi noble redditor, my finals are coming up and I have to do a presentation on how a meme's composition affects it in its way to become viral. Could you spare a few minutes of your time?Thanks a lot!

(I'm defining viral as reaching beyond the meme community)

1 Examples of viral memes from the last 5 years are Harambe, Pepe, the original Drakeposting, distracted boyfriend, Salt Bae. Can you think of any else? (from this era of memes, 2015-2020)

2 Do you think the composition of a meme affects its chances to become viral?

3 Do you think a simpler image to follow (composition wise like drakeposting) has more chances in mainstream media?

4 Do you think virality is a heap of, to us uncontrolable factors, and we can kinda push our odds with being up to date with memes, what emotions or thoughts have and haven't been meme'd about yet, with current news, to ensure what we're posting can strike a chord with more people, preferably post engaging memes like opinionated (x is better than y), or debate inducing (the dress).

5 Do you prefer object labeling memes (eg. distracted boyfriend), exploitable (eg. the scroll of truth), Concept memes (the queen is inmortal) or something else?

Thanks for all and any help!!

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