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Hyderabad: Memes are what social media runs on lately and have taken the platform by storm. From offering an everyday dose of humour, these photographs with humorous textual content replicate the developments and the world round us, with every of the memes talking greater than hundreds phrases. A few of them are tunes, concepts, catch-phrases and witty posts.
So what does it take to construct a meme manufacturing unit itself? Ask BTech graduates Arun and Anand, who launched ‘Fukkard’ in 2014 once they stopped resisting the illiberal, lonely and sombre world round them.
“The journey into making movies would possibly take a little bit longer, however telling tales to individuals was by no means a barrier. We thought we simply wanted a platform. Story could possibly be a each day exercise, the temper on the office and even the fuss that we expertise whereas we untangle an earphone. The early memes began with easy ones. As we dived deep into topics together with cinema and cricket, followers grew exponentially,” they stated.
With examples like All India Bakchod earlier than them, Arun stated they selected to go for progressive content material for the Telugu viewers. “For a meme maker, it’s essential to have the knack to know the heart beat of the general public, consciousness on the developments, social, political, cricket – something that has potential to create buzz on social media,” he says. Meme makers are mushrooming with hundreds of them already vying for area on social media. Arun and Anand weren’t conscious of the market once they began Fukkard with a number of random posts in 2014.
“Memes creators often stick to at least one style, say political or cinema or cricket, present affairs, and so on. Fukkard doesn’t stick to at least one factor. It was supposed to troll unhealthy movies and encourage unbiased cinema. A couple of instruments, apps that helped with photograph collage, texts and fonts got here helpful initially. To not point out the favored comical expressions of comic Brahmanandam. Inside eight months, followers began growing for Fukkard. Posts on IPL fixtures and essential tennis matches with Roger Federer too elevated our base,” they stated.
Fukkard has 562k followers on Instagram and 139k followers on Twitter, which Arun says is essentially the most for any Telugu meme web page.
Six years after dabbling with filmmaking, the 2 say their dream to make a movie hasn’t died down. In the intervening time, their thought of constructing memes has fetched affordable cash to maintain them within the metropolis.
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