Exposure to humorous memes about anti-vaxers boosts intention to get a Covid vax

In other words, making fun of idiots actually does benefit society as a whole? Good news, everyone, I'm a bigger benefit to society than I thought! :D

Horrible, horrible, irrelevant study taking advantage of a public health crisis to use government money to study propoganda techniques on humanity.

They had "robust" finding before the vaccine was even out. It turns out you CAN mock and shame people into compliance when they know next to nothing and have very little experience in the subject. Makes complete sense. I'm only picking an arguement or a fight when I have an arguement to make. How do you push back against this stuff when there is no COVID vaccine history to use as supporting evidence? You don't. Just ignore. But when FORCED to make a declaration, people choose the easy way out.

After the vaccine had been out for 10 months, memes had no effect.

So do memes work? Or does mockery work? Or does it take ignorance of a subject AND mockery to get theoretical compliance?

The study is self reported. Would be interested to know the ACTUAL vaccination outcomes of these individuals.

I would suspect some would be resentful of being mocked, say the right things, and retaliate by not taking the vaccine.