Dank or not? Analyzing and predicting the popularity of memes on Reddit

Abstract Internet memes have become an increasingly pervasive form of contemporary social communication that attracted a lot of research interest recently. In this paper, we analyze the data of 129,326 memes collected from Reddit in the middle of March, 2020, when the most serious coronavirus restri...

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Main Authors: Kate Barnes, Tiernon Riesenmy, Minh Duc Trinh, Eli Lleshi, Nóra Balogh, Roland Molontay
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2021-03-01
Series:Applied Network Science
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/s41109-021-00358-7