Why do some things become memes? What human behaviour decides the memetic value of a joke? We will never know but if Marx was around, he’d probably blame the failure of his revolution in people finding solace and humour in memes.
And for the last few days, when the internet hasn’t been fighting about the National Anthem or wondering that the canine that took down Baghdadi was called, they were come up with ‘life before memes’.
Here are some of the best ones: