coca-cola meme analyis
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What does the Meme Science approach tell us about how the Coke meme lives in the minds of the consumers?TRANSCRIPT
Culture2 Inc. presents
Analysis of the Coca-Cola Meme
on Twitter
A QUICK RESEARCH REPORT
Somebody please tell me: why am I suddenly in love with the song on the cocacola commercial?
World of coca cola is an amazing museum and entertainment.
Coca Cola supports animal abuse! Help stop this!
People are using Coca-Cola to clean their toilets and saying it works really well.
Starting point of the analysis: 5000+ memes collected from tweets in Aug, 2012
I like your lips like I like my Coca-Cola, yeah. Oh how it pops and fizzes
Your nails would dissolve in a cup of Coca-Cola in about 4 days.
Coca-Cola played both sides during World War Two, they supported the American troops but also kept making soda for the Nazis.
I hate when people ask dumb questions like "Why do you smoke kush", I usually answer with "Why do you drink coca cola? my dads insane,
they say im to blame & my brothers on the coca-cola.
Can I have a Coca-Cola Please? Is Pepsi ok? Is monopoly money ok?
When it originally appeared in 1886 - Coca Cola was billed as an "Esteemed Brain Tonic and Intellectual Beverage".
That guy who found a condom in a coke bottle, should be thanking cocacola for protecting him from cancer.
Coca-Cola Company sponsors 100 students for a summer entrepreneurship
Coca Cola and Ice, admit it, no matter what your age it's always been one of the best things ever. I'm chilln like a
polar bear in a coca-cola commercial...
• The following slides showcase the results of the memetic discovery and details the perception of the Coca-Cola meme in the mind-space of the tweeters in August, 2012.
• This is a preliminary report. The full report mapping the meme space will include language guidelines, messaging recommendations, communication strategy suggestions about how to build a better meme
Culture2 methodology and results
Prestige
Hatred - Love
Emotions
Low – High
Sincerity
CulticLegends – Facts
Dishonest – Honest
Meme Dimensions of Coca Cola
• Four memetic dimensions were found that explain 62% of the variance among the memes (this is good, textbooks say that above 60% is fine)
• All the four dimensions were quite well interpretable• These are the drivers of the perception for Coca Cola
32%
13%
9%8%
Components of the ‘Emotion’ dimension
Hatred side:• Coca Cola conceals how it harms to the health• Coca Cola supports animal abuse, GMO, Nazis during WWII, etc• No rights guaranteed to workers in foreign countries• ”The Coca Cola ads make me upset”, they are obviously fake
Love side:• Coke and ice, it’s always been one of the best things ever• Coke is part of life, smile, gift, it never gets boring• Love commercials, their music• Coca Cola is a part of American history, and appreciated all over the world• Entertainment, Coca Cola Museum• Coca Cola is a point of reference
The memes show that Coca Cola is more than just a beverage. It’s a part of American pride or shame, depending on the attitudes.
Components of the ‘Prestige’ dimension
Low side:• Fat girls, decayed teeth, diabetes, etc (”My body is Coca Cola shaped”)• Lots of funny or stupid coke stories• It’s nothing but a cheap chemical rectifier, challenged ingredients• It propagates an unreal dream world• It causes a kind of addiction
High side:• Sells much, it’s a giant, the company is rich• Originally, Coca Cola was sold as a prescription drug to cure depression• ”Look at the world a little differently”. Enjoy.• Coca Cola’s CSR activities are widely appreciated
Memes at the low prestige side are mostly connected to health risks and valueless addictive ingredients.
High prestige side memes emphasize mainly the business case.
Components of the ‘Cultic’ dimension
Legend side:• Don’t be surprised if we see a Coca Cola logo on the next Mars lander• Coke ads can change my mood positively• At the beginning, it contained cocaine – it’s still an energy drink• Lists and stories of iconic years• Bolivia bans Coca Cola to celebrate ”the end of capitalism”
Fact side:• The secret recipe that is locked away in a vault in the Sun Trust Bank Building in
Atlanta• Coke songs are extremely good, EXO-K is extremely popular a model
The memes indicate that Coca Cola indeed is a cultic part of the American Dream.
This is supported both by legendary facts, and by true legends – it is sometimes even impossible to tell the one from the other.
Components of the ‘Sincerity’ dimension
Dishonest side:• Everything about Coca Cola is fake, even certificates• Its ads lie, Olympic athletes don’t drink Coca Cola – that’s why they are Olympic
athletes • Polar bears don’t drink it either• The Coca Cola company claims all of their beverages are healthy
Honest side:• Water infused with lemon and lime doesn't taste anywhere near as good as Coca
Cola, but it's probably better for me *sigh*• That Coca Cola commercial where the security cameras catch people doing good
things is great• Coca Cola and Pepsi are two competing giants, and Coke is in the upperdog
position
The Dishonest side is fully serious, humorless, while at the Honest side, mostly ironic memes were found.
Weighted Statistics for Meme Dimensions
0-100% +100%
Dishonest Honest
Hatred Love
Low High
Emotions
FactsLegends
Prestige
Cultic
Sincerity• Coca Cola is more loved than hated, in spite of the many hatred memes• According to the Twitter memes, its prestige is relatively lower than how much it
is loved (positive emotions more influential than cognitive aspects)• It is accompanied more by ‘legend memes’ than by ‘fact memes’• In spite of the love, it is considered rather dishonest. This is a very real mid- to
long-term risk.
Dimension:
Major Take-Aways
The meme landscape for Coke is deeply ambivalent and conflicted… creating uncertainty and risk about its future prospects as a global brand.
This snapshot reveals a brief moment in time… need ongoing monitoring to see how Coke memes are changing to intervene and create positive change.
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