Does a meme a day keep the doctor away? Not quite, but it looks like it might help, according to one recent study. They surveyed 748 people online last December: 72% of those who responded were ...

No matter what the news event is, we'll always see memes. COVID-19 is no exception. In this collection, Snopes investigates the memes, rumors, jokes, and misinformation spreading on social media ...

Among the participants who were shown memes, some had captions related to COVID, while others saw the same image but with a different caption unrelated to the pandemic. For instance, some ...

Using that data, we developed two pools of memes using the same images: One set had captions about COVID-19, and another set had captions unrelated to COVID-19. In our main study, we recruited ...

Panic over the coronavirus and orders to stay inside have prompted a seriously funny crop of memes and TikToks from social media users desperate for a little levity right now. By last week ...

Memes may help people cope with the stress related to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to research published by the American Psychological Association. The study surveyed 748 people online in ...

During the COVID-19 coronavirus disease pandemic of 2020, social media was rife with misinformation about the disease and potential treatments for it, as exemplified by the following meme: All of ...

Using that data, we developed two pools of memes using the same images: One set had captions about COVID-19 and another set had captions unrelated to COVID-19. In our main study, we recruited ...

Chris Scensny was making $1,200 a week in upstate New York as a bartender. When he lost his job due to the coronavirus pandemic, he posted on Facebook asking for $6 in exchange for teaching people ...

looking for memes deemed cute. They then altered some of with text to make them COVID related. While others had nothing to do with the disease. What they discovered is that humorous or pleasant ...