Quantitative analysis of internet memes—digital cultural phenomena that propagate through online networks—remains an understudied domain in computational social science. Building upon established research that modeled meme popularity through ordinary differential equations, this study presents a novel machine learning approach to classify and predict meme popularity trajectories. Previous work identified four distinct post-peak patterns: smooth decay, oscillatory decay, plateau, and sustained growth. We significantly expanded the empirical foundation by constructing a comprehensive dataset of 2000+ memes, leveraging Google Trends time-series data. Our methodological framework employed a two-stage machine learning pipeline: first, implementing k-means clustering (
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Electronic Research Archive 2025, 33(9): 5323-5346
Published: 12 September 2025
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