Afraid to Dive

Video memes are one of the turns in the evolution of Internet memes, which often offers slightly more than the usual images. Basically, they are more interactive and complex, containing both visual and audio information. Such memes can be "screen versions" of picture memes or be completely original. Although the first video memes appeared long before the creation of video hosting sites and were mostly in the form of .swf animations (for example, Numa Numa), they found their new place with the creation of YouTube in 2005. It should be said that I don't compile a list of all the memers in general; I will talk about those whom I am aware of. Also, YouTube is not a center of all the video memes, and there are many of them on the platforms like Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, and much more, but the most of video memes are eventually being uploaded to YouTube. Montages which have many genres and microgenres have become one of the most popular video memes by the personal form. F...

Few can deny that Discord is one of the brightest discoveries in the field of online communication right now. It has replaced the inconvenient and faceless Skype and combined the comfortable and practical Slack interface with multi-functionality, thus becoming the unofficial master of the chats, a symbol of informal communication. By positioning itself as a chat for gamers, it, however, lost this label among "knowledgeable" people and became the common heritage, the folksy chat, from users to users. The company's strategy is that they don't take themselves too seriously, following the friendly and playful image of an "Internet-frequenter" which is used everywhere, from Twitter posts to changelogs inside the chat. What else is included in the Discord's formula of success, beyond the obvious server system, interactive bots, the mascot, and so on? It's something sociocultural, something that makes the communication process unique. Culture The firs...