Despite the fact that is has been almost thirty years since Yugoslavia collapsed, the memory of the former common state, and the associated nostalgia, is still alive. Its spirit can be felt in various areas of popular culture, one of which is certainly the Internet. Internet with its versatility and constant change always offers new types of usage. An interesting phenomenon of the Internet remains the meme and its power of communicating and connecting individuals. Memes can act as concepts, activities, phrases that spread as humorous inputs between users. Memes and the humor they hide can be recognized as tiny summaries of social discourses, which as such are relatively easy to study, since they already contain some condensed form of discourse. The aim of the master thesis was to find out what kind of humor is appearing in so-called Yugoslav memes. This was done by means of semiological analysis of the various memes. Semiology, which deals with the study of the relationship between signs, signifier, and signified, has thus helped us in analyzing and researching. The conclusion we came to with the help of the analysis is that humor in memes about Yugoslavia can be devidev into four groups. The first kind of humor that apperars is tied to Joseph Broz Tito, followed by humor with a Yugonostalgic theme. The third and fourth groups of humor in memes abour Yugoslavia represent the former common state and the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
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