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Meme Archive 03/2017
The new 'what in tarnation' meme is gloriously weird
Memes are like plants: they start as a small seedling and grow into something much bigger than originally expected. Nothing could be truer than the “what in tarnation” meme – it started small and relatively funny but soon snowballed as things got ...
(Mar 1, 2017, BreakingNews.ie)
Want to Profit Off Your Meme? Good Luck if You Aren't White
And starting around 2010—when Hot Topic stuck Rageguy on a T-shirt, much to 4chan's, well, rage—the meme-to-merch-to-money pipeline has been humming. Some of it has even benefited the meme creators themselves. “The people behind keyboard cat ...
(Mar 1, 2017, WIRED)
Here's Trump practicing his speech in the back of his limo. pic.twitter.com/Q6z3C8o6fY
... think I like this business.' “I had very little notes and even less preparation” is Trump in a nutshell. But, it looks like he did have a few notes this time around. Thankfully for all of us, he was captured reviewing them, and now we have so many ...
(Mar 1, 2017, Elite Daily)
Denny's Got a Bit Too Real With a New Meme, and the Result Is the Brand's Best Tweet Ever
When brands embrace the meme of the moment, the result is almost always cringeworthy and cloying. But Denny's proved this week you can serve up the syrup without being saccharine. On Wednesday afternoon, the brand became yet another account ...
(Mar 2, 2017, Adweek)
Meet the Meme-Maker Who's Kellyanne Conway's Worst Nightmare
The first thing Tim O'Brien did after seeing the photo of Kellyanne Conway on the couch was search the internet to see if anyone else had the same thought he had. They hadn't, so O'Brien fired up his Mac and in about 10 minutes Photoshopped Conway's ...
(Mar 2, 2017, TIME)
Denny's is behind one of the most popular versions of the new 'zoom' meme
Restaurant chain Denny's is the latest brand to jump on the craze of "zoom" memes and created one of the most-shared versions of the new internet fad. The new mobile-friendly meme asks users to go on a scavenger hunt and zoom into different parts of a ...
(Mar 2, 2017, Business Insider)
Gary From Chicago, and When Human Memes Become Too Human
Even before details of Gary Alan Coe's life and criminal record were presented for the internet, a tweet beseeched us not to look too far into his past. Don't ruin ...
(Mar 2, 2017, The Daily Dot)
Life as a meme: The story behind Gavin, the internet's favorite six-year-old
You might know him as the meme kid, the boy with the lizard or the six-year-old from Vine. But his name is Gavin. He lives in Minnesota, his favorite food is french fries and he wants to be a swim instructor when he grows up. Unlike most children his ...
(Mar 2, 2017, Minnesota Daily)
'Zoom in on the syrup': Denny's goes viral with clever pancake tweet that sends followers on a scavenger hunt - with ...
'Zoom in on the syrup': Denny's goes viral with clever pancake tweet that sends followers on a scavenger hunt - with ...
(Mar 2, 2017, Daily Mail)
The 'Trash Dove' has become one of the hottest memes of 2017 — here's what it means
Have you noticed a lot of head-banging, purple birds in your social media feeds lately? A sticker pack for iOS and Facebook has become an international sensation in the past few months. People are spamming comment sections and creating their own ...
(Mar 2, 2017, Business Insider)
How Danny DeVito Accidentally Created the Defining Meme of the Trump Presidency
You might have noticed that, with a growing frequency over the last several months, men in power are being told to pack it in. Their time is over — whether they're incompetent, disgraced, or just plain over-the-hill — it's clear that the world would ...
(Mar 2, 2017, New York Magazine)
Twitter turns 'the future that liberals want' into a meme and we kind of want to go there
The tweet reads "this is the future that liberals want," alongside an image of a man in drag sitting next to a woman in a traditional niqab, a "veil for the face that leaves the area around the eyes clear." This left a lot of people saying, "yeah ...
(Mar 2, 2017, Mashable)
Donald Trump has become a meme for tyranny
Jim Lo Scalzo/via AP; President Donald Trump, flanked by Vice President Mike Pence and House Speaker Paul Ryan, at his address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday. Donald Trump has set the bar for himself so low that on Tuesday night he pranced ...
(Mar 2, 2017, Chicago Reader)
SEE IT: Ex-Jet Nick Mangold's meme game is strong
Gang Green's former center meme-ified himself on what turned out to be a not-so-magical trip to Disney World. The meme features a picture of a grouchy-looking Mangold on Splash Mountain with the text, “The moment it sinks in ... that you were cut while ...
(Mar 2, 2017, New York Daily News)
This Alt-Right Meme Is So Stupid It Backfired Right In The Creator's Face!
Alt-righters are so sensitive and easily offended. They can't handle seeing two people just calmly co-existing in a public space. So they make a meme about it while clutching their pearls. And then it totally backfires! HAHAHA! Related: Twitter Reacts ...
(Mar 2, 2017, PerezHilton.com)
The Story Behind That 'Future That Liberals Want' Photo
They filling /pol/ News Network's mentions with messages endorsing the photo and adding their own visions of a bright future. By Thursday, it was a full-blown meme. Soon images of a future filled with interspecies companionship, gay space communism ...
(Mar 3, 2017, WIRED)
Sarah Jessica Parker Shares Hilarious 'Sex and the City' Meme to Poke Fun at Trump Administration's Russian ...
Sarah Jessica Parker Shares Hilarious 'Sex and the City' Meme to Poke Fun at Trump Administration's Russian ...
(Mar 3, 2017, Us Weekly)
Denny's 'zoom-in' meme stacking up viewership
The restaurant chain posted a “zoom-in” photo tweet Wednesday that featured a stack of pancakes with syrup dripping from a glob of butter, then invited Twitter users to “zoom in on the syrup.” Doing so revealed several messages, beginning with an ...
(Mar 3, 2017, Atlanta Journal Constitution)
Denny's cooks up Twitter meme, gets viral smash
Denny's' tweet is a variation on the "zoom-in" Twitter meme, which asks users to zoom in on various points in a still image that conceal hidden text that then directs users to the next point of text until reaching an eventual message or punchline ...
(Mar 3, 2017, Marketing Dive)
Sarah Jessica Parker jokes about Sessions' Russia scandal with Sex and the City meme
Carrie Bradshaw memes have been floating around the internet for some time, but Attorney General Jeff Sessions' latest scandal provided a Sex and the City link that even Sarah Jessica Parker herself couldn't pass up. Parker posted a meme of Carrie ...
(Mar 3, 2017, EW.com (blog))