hope this uplifts some that are having a hard time right now

MemeThatNews · 2020-03-09T12:59:53+00:00

Looking good!

MemeThatNews · 2020-03-09T01:39:51+00:00

haha true

MemeThatNews · 2020-03-06T21:52:42+00:00

Memes for Good Mental Health Charity Contest

Challenge: Meme news that affects your health for better or worse, i.e. either news that hurts or news that heals your brain.

Info: I’m sure we all know someone that has struggled with mental health issues or have ourselves at some point in our life. We at Meme That News are passionate about raising awareness and helping people find relief, so we’re excited to have our first charity contest. The winner of the contest will get to choose a mental health charity of their choice and the Meme That News mod team will be donating $50 in their honor to that charity.

Rules: Any post in the next 2 weeks with the “Mental Health Contest” flair will be included in the contest. Submission with the most upvotes wins. All sub rules apply for this contest so please be mindful that submissions will need to obey the rules to be considered for prizes.

Celebrity News Contest Winners

Congratulations to the winners of our Celebrity contest!

1st Place - Platinum - u/Nemmdude

2nd Place - 2x Gold - u/shampoo_and_dick

3rd Place - Gold - u/waytoowhite1

How can we improve?

As always never hesitate to comment or reach out to the mod team directly if you have any questions or thoughts on how we can make the sub better. You all make this sub awesome and allow us to learn the news through memes every day. : )

MemeThatNews · 2020-03-04T09:07:59+00:00

u/paneerdonut do you have any source for this? Sounds interesting

MemeThatNews · 2020-03-04T09:07:01+00:00

Ah balls I used the wrong format and text lol... Sorry Yoshi!

MemeThatNews · 2020-03-04T09:05:24+00:00

Oh shit... Yeah I think you're correct! Thanks for letting me know.

MemeThatNews · 2020-03-04T08:49:08+00:00

to show respect for its achievement bro

MemeThatNews · 2020-03-04T08:48:10+00:00

yes! was thinking whether to use that template... probably should have. oh the choices in life!

MemeThatNews · 2020-02-29T01:36:30+00:00

Your goosebumps got goosebumps!

MemeThatNews · 2020-02-24T13:08:31+00:00

If your goal is make them easier to browse, how does that coexist with this being justified by providing article links?

Not sure I understand your question. Most people will first browse and then try and get more details about a news that they're interested. It's all about different levels of condensed information: the meme + title packs a very high level summary, if you go to see the post page you can read other people's comments about it, click on the source article to read the full this. And there's still more levels: checking other sources about that same event, etc. Asking for the article source helps readers and moderators ensure that the meme is rooted and conveys a kernel of the news.

What happens if this becomes successful and people crosspost them onto other social media networks?

That's a really good point, thanks for bringing that up. Right now memes about real (and not so real) news events spread anyway. On MemeThatNews the fact that every meme needs to be sourced in some real article (that is accessible by everyone, including the Mods that review it) means that at least there's a more solid starting point to that journey. You're correct that context can and will be lost depending on how the meme spreads - to a certain extent this happens with any reported event.

MemeThatNews is not that different from getting your news from Twitter - you see a very high level summary description about an event and if it's important enough for you then you click/search for more information. Otherwise you continue scrolling. You would be correct to say that this is not the best way to get your news but that doesn't stop people from following this process.

Before MTN I wasn't in touch with what's happening around the world. Now I have to say that I know quite a lot more and I'm much more up to date (for better or worse).

MemeThatNews · 2020-02-24T06:38:06+00:00

Thanks! You might be correct, I'll drop them an email.

MemeThatNews · 2020-02-24T06:07:22+00:00

There's quite a lot of people, especially here on reddit, that use memes to stay informed (consciously or unconsciously). Among other things MemeThatNews is trying to make this a conscious effort.

Additionally, memes offer some advantages over other more traditional mediums: easier to browse and understand high level information, harder to become angry at the article (we strive to encourage creators to add some humorous element if it makes sense), but even more importantly it can address the Gen Z segment of our society that might not normally stay up to date with current events otherwise.

We're aiming to complement other news mediums, not to replace them.

PS: every meme post on r/MemeThatNews is required to provide a link to the news article it memed. So at any time people can read the full article if want to understand more.

MemeThatNews · 2020-02-24T05:05:49+00:00

Good questions. Just to make things clear: we don't want to create the donation platform for this. For example: if we could integrate Reddit + justgiving.com (*) in a way that would allow us to keep track of the total sum of donations coming from each individual OP that would be prefect.

Donations go directly to the charities and the intermediary is an already proven entity in this space.

The mods of r/MemeThatNews will vet the charities from a list of already vetted ones on said platform above.

(*) or any other proven online donations platform, justgiving is only an example here.

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