memes go viral cuz they're so sick

When we say a meme goes “viral,” we aren't actually saying it's making people sick. But the math behind a meme’s spread suggests it's actually a pretty spot-on analogy. LEARN MORE ************** To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: - Basic reproduction number: a figure expressing the average number of cases of an infectious disease arising by transmission from a single infected individual, in a population that has not previously encountered the disease. - Epidemic: a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time. - Meme: an image, video, piece of text, etc., typically humorous in nature, that is copied and spread rapidly by internet users, often with slight variations. - Viral: of the nature of, caused by, or relating to a virus or viruses. Or relating to or involving an image, video, piece of information, etc., that is circulated rapidly and widely from one internet user to another. SUPPORT MINUTEEARTH ************************** If you like what we do, you can help us!: - Become our patron: - Our merch: - Our book: - Share this video with your friends and family - Leave us a comment (we read them!) CREDITS ********* Cameron Duke | Script Writer, Narrator and Director Arcadi Garcia i Rius | Storyboard Artist Sarah Berman | Illustration, Video Editing and Animation Nathaniel Schroeder | Music MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC OUR STAFF ************ Lizah van der Aart • Sarah Berman • Cameron Duke Arcadi Garcia i Rius • David Goldenberg • Melissa Hayes Alex Reich • Henry Reich • Peter Reich Ever Salazar • Leonardo Souza • Kate Yoshida OUR LINKS ************ TikTok | @minuteearth Twitter | Instagram | Website | REFERENCES ************** “Incorporating Global Dynamics to Improve the Accuracy of Disease Models: Example of a COVID-19 SIR Model.” “Basic Reproduction Number - an Overview | ScienceDirect Topics.” “The Power of a Good Idea: Quantitative Modeling of the Spread of Ideas from Epidemiological Models.” “Estimates of the Reproduction Number for Seasonal, Pandemic, and Zoonotic Influenza: A Systematic Review of the Literature.” “Measles Epidemic from Failure to Immunize.” “Complexity of the Basic Reproduction Number (R0).” “Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak - 8 October 2019.” “Epidemic Calculator.” “Epidemic Curve - an Overview | ScienceDirect Topics.” “Pandemic Potential of a Strain of Influenza a (H1N1): Early Findings.” “The Spread and Control of HIV/AIDS Infection Using the SIR Model.” “Deterministic Models for Rumor Transmission.” Accessed 31 Oct. 2019 “A Contribution to the Mathematical Theory of Epidemics.” “An Empirical Analysis of the Ebola Outbreak in West Africa.” “The Possibility of an Epidemic Meme Analogy for Web Community Population Analysis.” “Do Memes Behave like Viruses?” “The Reproduction Number of COVID-19 and Its Correlation with Public Health Interventions.” “The Basic Reproduction Number (R0) of Ebola Virus Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.” “Deterministic Epidemic Models for Ebola Infection with Time-Dependent Controls.” Sir, Weiss, and Ronald Ross. The SIR Model and the Foundations of Public Health. “The SIR Model for Spread of Disease - the Differential Equation Model | Mathematical Association of America.” “Susceptible‐Infectious‐Recovered (SIR) Model Based Forecasting of COVID‐19 Outbreak in Bangladesh.”