![]() ![]() Thus, to successfully manage COVID-19 and its aftermath, it is necessary to provide a roadmap of health-protective behaviors that can ensure the mental health of individuals and communities. Infection with SARS-CoV-2 also has acute and chronic neurological consequences, which may deepen the trauma and stress associated with the infection. The stress associated with the pandemic increased the level of cortisol, which has a significant negative effect on the survival of patients with COVID-19. A study in Germany showed that the prevalence of mental disorders was much higher than usual, with 50.6% of investigated people expressing at least one mental disorder during the COVID-19 lockdown. The most widely known consequence of exposure to prolonged traumatic and stressful events is post-traumatic stress disorder. Moreover, the need to stay at home due to the perceived risk of COVID-19 limited not only the possibility of maintaining interpersonal contacts, but also reduced the possibility of engaging in entertainment, physical activity, and contact with nature, which negatively affects mental well-being. The experience of life-threatening and stressful events during a pandemic can modify individual behavior. ![]() The economic consequences of the pandemic have further deteriorated psychiatric states. Humans experienced elevated fear and stress about SARS-CoV-2. Emotional and behavioral responses to this ongoing crisis are multifaceted. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a lasting impact worldwide. Our results confirm that societies may have turned to humor to cope with the threat of SARS-CoV-2. However, an internet questionnaire revealed that coronavirus memes gained higher funniness scores than a random sample of non-coronavirus memes. The sentiment analysis showed that coronavirus memes had a similar proportion of positive and negative words compared to non-coronavirus memes. We compared content of a random sample of 200 coronavirus memes with a random sample of 200 non-coronavirus memes found on the Internet. The interest in coronavirus memes was positively correlated with interest in mortality due to COVID-19 on a global scale, and positively associated with the real number of deaths and cases reported in different countries. Using Google and Google Trends, we revealed that the number of and interest in funny internet memes related to COVID-19 exploded during the spring 2020 lockdown. We hypothesized that people may have responded to the pandemic spontaneously with increased interest in and creation of funny internet memes. Mental health is the most affected by extreme negative emotions and stress, but it has been an underestimated part of human life during the pandemic. Sign up for SMW Insider to watch full-length sessions from official Social Media Week conferences live and on-demand.COVID-19 expanded rapidly throughout the world, with enormous health, social, and economic consequences. Learn the latest trends, insights and best practices from the brightest minds in media and technology. The engine tracks phrases up to five words long within 24 hours of any meme that’s in Me.me’s data set. The tool was born out of a collaboration from Me.me (a search engine for finding the “dankest” memes) and data scientist and NASA researcher Evan Freitag. Guess he’s not crying anymore!Īnd check out this neck-in-neck battle between Spongebob Squarepants and Vladimir Putin (both trending down as of January). As the chart indicates, sometime around November 2016 the Crying Jordan meme overtook Harambe. Here’s a look at meme adoption for the terms “Jordan” and “Harambe,” two of the most popular memes from the past year. Just type in the name of your favorite meme to see how quickly it has spread, and whether it’s on the up and up, or the fast fall to forgettability. Nothing quite captures the ephemeral nature of digital culture like a meme-that is, an entertaining, often humorous, piece of content that is replicated, altered and shared on the internet.
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