It can be hard to express feelings into words, sometimes a photo, meme, or gif tells it a lot better. It’s hard to translate sarcasm in texts/tweets/statuses etc. or any emotion in general sometimes. Which is why emojis can come in handy in texting and gifs on Twitter. And just like a profile picture can show a person’s vision of their identity, I believe that the memes and moving images they share is also showing a glimpse of a person’s identity, even if that identity is very temporary such as an emotion. Profile pictures change too when a person feels like their identity changed as they’re always trying to portray the most accurate version of their selves like we learned earlier. Profile pics are a little more for the physical identity while memes/gifs show more of a glimpse of the internal identity without writing a whole biography about themselves or writing statuses like a diary entry each time. Gifs can show a current emotion without putting out the details of personal experiences, and most people understand that when a person captions #Same or #Me that they aren’t “literally” the gif/meme but are really feeling the emotion that the image gives off.

#Me the closer it gets to finals