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https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/18/health/internet-memes-obesity-intl/index.html

Needless to say, this isn't The Onion.

wow I thought maybe it meant those body positive posts or whatever but no, its images making fun of fat people, that somehow encourage people to become fat? Not sure how its any different than comedians like, say, Drew Carey who would make jokes about being fat. fat jokes aren't a new concept.

"Damn memes, making kids…
shuffles deck, draws card
…fat"

"The vast majority of sharers display little, if any, emotion when sharing these memes," the academics commented.

KYM's userbase confirmed for being psychopaths.

are you bloddy kidding me?

I'll tell you what, I spent so much time looking at KYM on summer break that muscles atrophied.

Yeah, that’s it, I’m done.

You nerds look in the mirror and tell me they're wrong.

They also noted that memes "have the potential to normalize undesirable behaviors," and often "contain inappropriate material or ridicule others by race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, body shape, religion, diet."

Another name for this phenomena is "Comedy" through the medium of "Jokes".

Well, I mean, they aren't wrong.

You see, just like anything on the internet, memes are a distraction, they could make you sit or laying down with your phone, scrolling down twitter with images that makes you feel that you want more fun, wasting many hours laughing at dumb jokes and forgetting to do other essential things.

After all, sitting too much time in front of a computer/phone can lead you to have a sedentary lifesty…

"A substantial number of individuals on Twitter share health-related Internet memes, with both positive and negative messages," they wrote, noting that many "contain inappropriate material.

A picture of an overweight child with the caption "Free food? Count me in!" was sent along with the letter as an example of a meme the researchers found dangerous.

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