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Exposure to humorous memes about anti-vaxxers boosts intention to get a COVID-19 vaccine : science

Reddit thread because it didn't link for some reason

The science :marscientist: 1 chuds :chudsey: 0

Some of the memes in question

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The rest of the memes are here

Did the memes really help or was it just the type of person who liked those memes also was more gun-ho about getting vaccinated?

It wasn’t based on who liked what memes on social media vs who got vaccinated.

They were randomized groups shown specific memes then asked their opinions.

The researchers designed six studies involving a total of 1,584 residents of the United Kingdom. In each of these studies, participants were randomly assigned to either an experimental or a control condition. The experimental group viewed a series of eight vaccination-related internet memes that had been collected by researchers using Google Image Search, and the control group viewed control images. While the memes varied slightly depending on the study, the majority of them expressed sarcasm toward anti-vaxxers.

After viewing the images, participants were asked whether they intended to get vaccinated against COVID-19. A combined analysis of all six studies revealed that exposure to the vaccine memes increase participants’ intentions to get vaccinated, even after accounting for gender, age, and political orientation.

:marseybong: strikes again

I think the terrifying flipside to this is "humorous" memes most likely influence people into stupid things too, and my social media friends spamming them tend to lean towards the stupid.

Of course... This is how Propaganda has been going nuts the last few years and why some people believe JFK's son was going to come out of hiding and say "I'm alive again!"

Do you not remember 2016 and how Donald Trump was, at least in part, "Meme'd" into the white house?

Yup. Earnest public ridicule is probably the best tool there is to generate compliance in a group, for better or for worse.

Humorous memes sometimes turn people into murder spree nazis

Pick your :marseybrainlet: take

Yes this is called "propaganda". I'm not anti Vax or anything I got the jab. Buy this style of info is very propaganda-esque

The nazis found that delivering propaganda through fictional movies was much more powerful than doing it overtly. Kinda same deal.

Not a comment on my level of support for the vax, but this is the definition of propaganda

smartest redditers need to remind everyone they are very good at spotting propaganda

In also true news...exposure to humorous memes about vax mandators boosts intention to not get a covid-19 vaccine, study would find if it was run.

You assume that, without any proof. Even “obvious” things require proof, because sometimes the answer surprises you. Nothing is stopping you from running your own experiment and posting the results.

But it sounds like your intention is more malicious than scientific.

Run your own literal meme studies before you post misinformation on reddit :soyjakanimeglasses:

This is why peer-bullying still exists in our societies and might need to be differentiated from picking on someone which is always bad.

The difference would be peer-bullying makes people aware of social norms and allows them the freedom of choice without negative consequence, whereas picking on someone singles out an individual and makes their lives heck and is done by an individual or small group of people with the intention to hurt.

Yep- It's the difference between norm enforcement and torture/sadism. Culture literally wouldn't exist without a coherent set of shared philosophies established through norm enforcement. That doesn't mean a society needs to beat up and drag through the streets any nonconformist it sees. Control and enforcement exists on a spectrum and not all of it is good or bad.

redditers making up specific scenarios where bullying is okay instead of a blanket endorsement :!marseydisagree:

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The virgin you being convinced by glowies making shitty meme to take the “vaccine”

The Chad me knowing it’s wrong based on my dreams

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Get vaccinated chud. It’s science

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Science isn’t real, it’s a construct.

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this unironically

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'Science' is inherently a feature of whiteness and as such should be disregarded by eevryone.

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“Once the first safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine was announced and discussion/opinions about vaccination became more common (and divisive), memes no longer affected these vaccination intentions,” Geniole said.


safe and effective

HE SAID THE LINE :marseysoypoint:

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At least the booster was effective at giving people VAIDS, though i wouldn’t call it safe

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Even if that were true, redditors are incapable of the humorous part. Science should have proven that smug memes work better.

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I don't know, those make me want to get unvaccinated

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Wow those were all terrible except the one suggesting vaxpillers go to China to prove us all wrong.

I am glad my tax dollars aren't going to waste creating expensive, top-tier memes.

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Those memes are so bad and obviously written by office workers for a psyop.

But darn, zoomers :marseynpc: are impressionable.

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You are not immune to propaganda!

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If 1 in every 33,330 people who cross that bridge fricking dies, yeah I think I'll take an alternate route

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It doesn't even make sense for their argument unless I'm r-slurred. Getting Corona unvaxxed is 99.997% safe. Antivaxxers are choosing to cross the bridge anyway, taking that risk.

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