“More like a drug cartel than a baby plan”: A multimodal analysis of infertility GIFs on Reddit
Health:: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine
Published online on February 12, 2026
Abstract
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This research presents a multimodal analysis of 189 infertility GIFs collected from the subredditr/trollingforababyover a 12-month period. Drawing on symbolic interactionism and Bakhtinian concepts, the analysis examines how users repurpose popular ...
This research presents a multimodal analysis of 189 infertility GIFs collected from the subredditr/trollingforababyover a 12-month period. Drawing on symbolic interactionism and Bakhtinian concepts, the analysis examines how users repurpose popular ...