My Meme Samples

My meme analysis will come from religious Christian memes on Pinterest, specifically those coming from the groups called Project Inspired and Faith Hub.  My meme selection all come from pins on Pinterest which take expressions from common Christian lived religion experiences and depict them as memes to portray their feelings about certain issues. The memes to be discussed will be as follows:

1) Waiting After Church
2) Modest Pup
3) Silent Cell Phone Success
4) Overtime Sermons
5) Dont Know the Words
6) Cold Churches
7) Hipster Hillsong
8) VBS Leader
9) Spiritual moments
10) Confused Worshipper
11)Baby Baptism
12) Chick fil a

The first memes I will discuss will be numbers 5, 9, and 12.

The underlying theme and focus of the groups Project Inspired and Faith Hub seem to be connecting Christians with other Christians, giving a sense of online community and encouraging one another to live out their religion through it.  While memes are not the sole focus of these websites, they are used as a sort of comic relief for those involved in what is a very personal and deep topic. These examples shown above give a sense of the type of memes these groups use to unite those in their lived religion. These memes all portray "Christian Problems" which are similar to the commonly known "First World Problems". These memes depict small issues or annoyances that occur within Christian life, and coincide them with a graphic that gives the problem some detrimental feel. The memes all have captions that describe some issue that lived religion Christians may encounter, and then add it to an image that magnifies the issue. The woman crying and the girl who is upset both add to the concept of the memes by exaggerating the actual issue, which is often a non issue to begin with. This puts the issue into perspective with the Christian audience, but also allows irony and humor because most Christians would be able to relate to the issues.