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IIIT-Delhi's team of 4 creates social network for meme enthusiasts

Beginning as an academic project, MIME conducted an initial survey with a small sample size of 88 people

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Neha Alawadhi New Delhi
The Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi (IIIT-D), has developed MIME, a social network application for meme enthusiasts. 

Memes are already mainstream, and there are a host of tools to create these witty elements that make for great forwards and shares on social media. 

Four students — Varnit Jain, Chirag Jain, Sarthak Marwaha, Pranshu Bansal — worked on the project for over a year under Ponnurangam Kumaraguru or “PK”.

The team felt “the creation of memes is limited to a niche community of content creators, who are skilled in photo/video editing softwares... We built a one-stop solution for all the meme needs —

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