What’s more, by reducing the amounts of the stress hormone cortisol in your body, laughter can help older adults tackle memory deficiencies.
This happens because cortisol can damage the hippocampus neurons and impair learning and memory.
Furthermore, laughter also improves creative thinking and hopefulness.
There’s a lot of luck involved in any content going viral. However, there are lots of things that you can do to improve your chances that a meme or post of yours will get more attention.
According to one study, “virality is driven, in part, by activation and arousal.” What this means is that high-arousal emotions tend to be more viral. That applies both to positive emotions (for example, awe), as well as negative ones (for instance, anxiety or anger).
Meanwhile, content that “evokes low arousal or deactivating emotions tends to be less viral.” So, topics that make the audience sad may not go as viral as ones that make people happy or angry.
Other traits that favor virality include practical value, emotionality, surprise, and interest in the topic.
In other words, if you make your content interesting and valuable and evoke strong emotions in your audience, you increase the chances of it going viral online.
It’s also helpful if you carve out a niche for your content. In essence, you want your audience to know what they’re in for because it helps build your brand and image. So, you might focus on topics like animals, relationships, work, parenting, etc. Or you might post a bit about everything, in which case your followers are there for random content that might involve recent events.
From a practical perspective, you need to spend some time editing and polishing your content to truly make it shine. For example, one thing that you should definitely do is use high-quality photos or images as the base of the meme.
On top of that, you want to use an easily readable font. You have only a moment to capture a social media scroller’s attention, so visual clarity is key here.
