Memes carry dangerous health-related messages and make light of unhealthy eating habits, researchers from Loughborough University wrote in a letter sent to a British parliamentary committee.
"A substantial number of individuals on Twitter share health-related Internet memes, with both positive and negative messages," they wrote, noting that many "contain inappropriate material."
A picture of an overweight child with the caption "Free food? Count me in!" was sent along with the letter as an example of a meme the researchers found dangerous.
The academics were also concerned by a meme that created a human-like body from pictures of pizzas and hamburgers, with frankfurters used for limbs and a smiley-faced potato for a face.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/18/health/internet-memes-obesity-intl/index.html
Monkey see, monkey... eat?
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Saturday October 20 2018, @09:53PM (4 children)
I see no causation here.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 20 2018, @09:56PM
Well, it's best to be safe. Perhaps for now we should just ban all memes about green jelly beans [xkcd.com].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 20 2018, @10:06PM (1 child)
I hope you are sarcastic. If not youre a shameless little methodological terrorist bully.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday October 21 2018, @03:46AM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 21 2018, @12:59PM
Perhaps the link is the delivery channel ... the same device that delivers memes can also have food delivered. Or coordinate with others to secretary meet to consume memes (or food). Or share pictures of food that are intended to be converted into memes but end up with the recipient converting the image into desire resulting in eating something similar.
Let's remove the comman delivery channel from the equation and see if these teens leave the house and burn some calories at the same time.