Proceedings of the 2022 4th International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2022)

Analysis of “Crazy Thursday” from the Perspective of Meme Theory

Authors
Meijie Lyu1, *
1Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China
*Corresponding author. Email: lyumeijie@163.com
Corresponding Author
Meijie Lyu
Available Online 13 February 2023.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_85How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Meme Theory; Internet Marketing; Crazy Thursday; Crazy Thursday Literature
Abstract

With the advantages of low cost and high efficiency, Internet marketing has become the first choice of marketing methods for countless businesses. Online communities and social media promote the public to participate in the imitation, replication, innovation and dissemination of information. Such information dissemination can be explained by meme theory. This paper attempts to explain the communication characteristics of KFC’s “Crazy Thursday” marketing campaign from the perspective of meme theory, explain the communication mechanism of “Crazy Thursday” marketing campaign with the communication mode of meme theory, analyze the psychology of the communication audience at each stage, and provide a reference for such Internet marketing campaign.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2022 4th International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2022)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
13 February 2023
ISBN
10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_85
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_85How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2023 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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