It turns out that meme are something that white hoi polloi wish . At least , that ’s one possible way to understanda late study of 50 pop meme , which found that there are an awful stack of white multitude in these widely - shared internet jape round .
Over at the Washington Post , Caitlin Dewey explains this scene of the study :
Of memes that show people , versus dinosaurs or cartoon or computerized axial tomography , men come out double as often . And nearly 45 pct of all the people in memes are Caucasian ; Latino bailiwick make up a fifth part of one percent , by equivalence .
“ These findings corroborate many of the observation made in [ past ] qualitative studies , ” the investigator sum up , “ in which the memetic sphere was described as dominated by young , white-hot humanity . ”
That said , the percentage of whites in meme is far lower than the per centum of flannel in the United States , which wasestimated at 72 % in 2010 . Though many meme are outside , the researchers relied on the English - language , American siteKnowYourMemeto gather their dataset of memes . So one can assume that many of these memes originated in the United States or at least in English - speaking countries .
So memes may sport a pot of white people — but they are still more divers than the population of the United States .
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