: Ukraine’s official Twitter handle is processing the nation’s trauma in real time with memes #IndiaNEWS TikToks of cats in cardboard tanks. Flirty comments on Instagram accounts dedicated to Vladimir

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Ukraine’s official Twitter handle is processing the nation’s trauma in real time with memes #IndiaNEWS
TikToks of cats in cardboard tanks. Flirty comments on Instagram accounts dedicated to Vladimir Putin, begging him to stop Russia’s attacks on Ukraine. Memes bemoaning what it is like to live during a pandemic and war.Memes, cats and TikToks are central features of contemporary internet culture. And sometimes, internet culture is all three at the same time, using commonly understood templates in conjunction with cute and silly themes and materials that do not automatically seem to mesh with the catastrophic consequences of Russia’s attack on Ukraine.As a scholar of social media platforms and internet popular culture, I know that cute animal images, including cat images, are a defining communication practice online. While cats, memes and TikToks – and sometimes cat memes and cat TikToks – are ways to process and respond to current events, they are also emerging, most recently in the Ukraine war, as a way to cope with toxic, harmful and tragic situations.Much of the public’s way of thinking about the internet has been through dichotomies: there is online, and then there is offline. There are cute cat videos, and then there are misinformation and harassment. There’s TikTok, and then there is world politics.But if Russia’s attacks on the 2016 United States...Read more

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