{"id":5672,"date":"2024-01-02T21:14:08","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T03:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=5672"},"modified":"2024-01-02T21:45:35","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T03:45:35","slug":"dave-barrys-2023-year-in-review-yes-the-situation-is-hopeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/01\/02\/dave-barrys-2023-year-in-review-yes-the-situation-is-hopeless\/","title":{"rendered":"Here are the most notable memes of 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/best-2023-memes-babygirl-barbenheimer-roman-empire-rcna127276\">NBC News<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2023 marked another year of meme-ories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like in past years, many online turned to memes as a form of escapism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMemes seemed to be a primary way people dealt with and processed and reacted to news this year,\u201d said Jessica Maddox, assistant professor of digital media at the University of Alabama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They also helped shift our use of language, elevating words like \u201crizz\u201d and \u201cbabygirl,\u201d which have since entered a more general lexicon.&nbsp;This year also had a wide range of meme mediums \u2014 from text comments to TikToks to traditional still-image reaction memes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the future, Maddox said, she anticipates a rise in video- and AI-based memes. \u201cBut the traditional meme will always be there, no matter what other type of media gets thrown into the mix,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is NBC News\u2019 list of this year\u2019s most notable memes, including a few honorable (and dishonorable) mentions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/best-2023-memes-babygirl-barbenheimer-roman-empire-rcna127276\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC News 2023 marked another year of meme-ories. Like in past years, many online turned to memes as a form of escapism. \u201cMemes seemed to be a primary way people dealt with and processed and reacted to news this year,\u201d said Jessica Maddox, assistant professor of digital media at the University of Alabama. They also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":5675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coping-with-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-02-at-22.37.30.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5672"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5676,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5672\/revisions\/5676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}