What Are Memes and Virality? | Mashable Explains?

A meme is like a funny joke or image that spreads from person to person, and when it becomes really popular, it's called virality, like how your favorite song suddenly everyone knows.

Imagine you're in the playground, and someone starts telling a silly story. You laugh, then tell your friend, who tells their friend, and before you know it, everyone is laughing at the same joke. That’s how a meme works, it's just a funny idea that people share online.

When you see something really funny on social media, like a cat wearing sunglasses, you might click "share" so your friends can see it too. Then they laugh and share it with their friends. It’s like passing around a snack at lunch, the more people get it, the bigger the snack becomes.

Sometimes a meme just takes off because it's super funny or relatable, like when someone makes a video of them failing in a cool way, and suddenly everyone is trying to fail in that same way. It’s like when your class starts doing a silly dance after one kid starts it, soon the whole school is dancing!

Virality happens when something becomes really popular really fast, just like how your favorite ice cream flavor can go from being unknown to everyone's favorite in no time at all.