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Collected Item: “Using Humor to Deal with the Pandemic”

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Using Humor to Deal with the Pandemic

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

Memes taken from Twitter, Tumblr, and Instagram

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

These memes that I have taken from various social media sites that I visit. They help to show how some people are processing the global pandemic through the use of humor and memes to deal with their feelings of anxiety and fear for the future. I have taken part in this and often search the various hashtags for pandemic memes when I am feeling anxious about the pandemic. Many of my friends too share these kinds of memes with each other in our group chats or on their own blogs.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

memes, pandemic, humor, twitter, tumblr, Instagram, anxiety, coping,

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

various user on social media

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2020-09-29
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