This might sound far-fetched, but memes have epic educational value. Sure, their main quality is for ze lulz entertainment that provides endless rabit-holey potential for scrolling. But a little-known characteristic is that they can be fun and educational.
Take Great British Memes, for instance. While providing comedic relief to our otherwise very serious lives, we can also take the opportunity to learn more about the UK’s culture, societal norms, and a lot of other things. If you’re that resourceful, that is.
What are you waiting for? Education awaits below!
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Not too long ago, we did a deep dive into the Great British Memes page. The endeavor is the brainchild of George Bacon, who’s also the man behind the GBM group social creative agency.
The meme page was created back in 2017 when Bacon was in university. The founding of the company followed in 2020 during the global COVID pandemic.
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Bacon explained that the page jumps on reactive and cultural things happening in the UK, which, besides the giggles, keeps the audience up to date on current events. See, I told you it was educational!
Besides that, consistency was also a key factor that added to the popularity of the page. Great British Memes posts on the daily (3 to 4 times most days), and has been for the past 6 years. Today, roughly 17,880 posts later, the page boasts nearly 1 million followers on Facebook with another 2.3 million on Instagram.
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Great British Memes isn’t the only player out there when it comes to British Memes. Another very popular page is Very Brexit Problems.
Very Brexit Problems is years’ worth of unadulterated political, social and very British satire and parody wrapped into memes. And even though Brexit has been old news for a while now, there’s always something to talk about on the matter. Again, memes can teach you so much!
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If this sounds familiar, that’s because it should be. The man behind the helm of this page is the same one behind the Very Finnish Problems page. Bored Panda has featured its memes on numerous occasions.
Very Finnish Problems takes the same country memes format to a different corner of the world, where it focuses on issues like you’ve never experienced cold until you moved to Finland and if you aren’t 37 meters away from me, then you’re not respecting my space bubble.
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But, back to British things. Country-focused memes often play on stereotypical cultural phenomena. With the UK, it’s all about that tea, seemingly mismatched foods, the weather, being extremely polite (yet dark humor incarnate inside), and, of course, the monarchy.
There’s also the occasional jab at the UK’s colonial past whereby museums depict things that are not inherently British, as well as a more recent trend, explaining just how old you feel in your 20s.
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Fun fact, if you’re not yet fully caught up on the whole Great Britain vs. The United Kingdom vs. England thing, here’s a tl;dr for you:
The United Kingdom is England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland; Great Britain is the big island that’s home to England, Scotland, and Wales (minus Northern Ireland), and England is only one of several countries within the UK.
And if you need to get super nerdy, here’s CGP Grey’s explanation. You’re welcome.
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If you’re still here, you can either keep on scrolling, or you can also go nuts in the comment sections under the various submissions, or the big main one after the article and share your thoughts on anything and everything about British culture, society and memes.
But if you need a bigger fix, be sure to check out more from Great British Memes, and supplement that with some Very Finnish Problems and Very Brexit Problems.
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