A Corpus of Memes from Reddit: Acquisition, Preparation and First Case Studies

URN zum Zitieren dieses Dokuments:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-582593

Schmidt, Thomas

; Schiller, Fabian ; Götz, Mathias ; Wolff, Christian

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We present a corpus of memes and their textual components that were acquired from the popular meme platform r\memes, a subreddit of Reddit and one of the major outlets of online meme culture. The corpus consists of the most popular memes from 2013-2021 on the platform and we acquired 11,701 memes and 280,351 text tokens. We conduct several case studies focused on diachronic analysis to highlight ...