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Meme Archive 08/2017
Kate Hudson Jumps on Scaramucci 'How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days' Meme
Social media users poked fun at the short term of the former White House communications director with reworked posters for the rom-com. Anthony Scaramucci may have left his job of only 10 days as White House communications director, but he stayed in ...
(Aug 1, 2017, Hollywood Reporter)
How a croissant in 'Jimmy Neutron' became a dank meme
In a world without memes, Nickelodeon's Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius would be fondly remembered as a slice of computer-animated early-2000s nostalgia. But in the world as it is, where meme culture colors the way a generation relates to the media of its ...
(Aug 1, 2017, The Daily Dot)
Kate Hudson's savage Scaramucci meme totally wins today
This week, it was announced that Anthony Scaramucci is leaving his post as White House communications director after lasting just 10 days in the role. “The Mooch,” as Scaramucci is also known, was removed from his post by incoming Chief of Staff John ...
(Aug 1, 2017, The indy100)
An illustrated guide to New Zealand politics meme pages
Like every good meme, allow me to segue clumsily to New Zealand politics and the 2017 election. I'm not invested in politics. Until very recently, my political frame of reference revolved around the fact that in 2014 the rich, white lady whose house I ...
(Aug 1, 2017, The Spinoff)
Assistant Chief Of Estherwood Police Resigns After Posting Racially Charged Meme To Facebook
The assistant chief of the Estherwood Police Department is resigning after posting a racially charged meme to his Facebook. The officer in question is Wayne Welsh and the meme shows a mother holding the back of her daughter's head, pushing her face ...
(Aug 1, 2017, FOX 15)
Man Who Made 'Film' Against Maymays is Now A Meme! Internet Protests Violent Video With Deepak Sharma Jokes
A video of a violent man thrashing a boy whose face was covered while he warned people against making MayMay (Memes) went viral just a few days ago. The violent video, which is being called as a film that warns people to form touching, sentimental ...
(Aug 2, 2017, India.com)
One Nation's Brian Burston Slammed For Islamophobic Meme On Facebook
One Nation senator Brian Burston has been slammed by parliamentary colleagues and voters for sharing a grossly Islamophobic meme -- riddled with factual errors and grammar mistakes -- on Facebook. Burston, Pauline Hanson's party-mate from NSW, ...
(Aug 2, 2017, Huffington Post Australia)
Cosplay Won't Solve the Meme Gap Dooming the #Resistance
Despite their seemingly uncrossable divide, the digital factions of the active left and right actually agree on one thing: the left can't meme. For the meme-obsessed alt-right, this is not only hilarious, but also proof in its proponents' minds that ...
(Aug 2, 2017, WIRED)
Crash Bandicoot is taking over the internet, thanks to 'Woah'
Beloved video game character Crash Bandicoot is experiencing a renaissance this year, with his three classic games re-released in HD. And, while he's still not as much of a meme magnet as fellow animal protagonist Sonic the Hedgehog, Crash has stolen ...
(Aug 2, 2017, The Daily Dot)
Maxine Waters' 'Reclaiming my time' is a new feminist anthem
“Reclaiming my time” is a phrase used by U.S. representatives to reclaim the floor from another member who is speaking during a meeting. And now it's a meme that has spread to T-shirts and songs. Yes, there are songs. If you need catching up, last week ...
(Aug 2, 2017, The Daily Dot)
An Assistant Police Chief Shared This Racist Meme On Facebook
An Assistant Police Chief Shared This Racist Meme On Facebook. After the post went viral, the officer resigned. By Andy Campbell. A Louisiana man entrusted to protect the people in his community has resigned from his position after sharing a disgusting ...
(Aug 2, 2017, HuffPost)
Why Stacking Cheerios on Babies Was the Perfect Meme for the Brand to Jump On
It was a silly viral meme on Father's Day last year. But for Life of Dad, the website that started it, and for Cheerios, whose product was central to it, it turned into a user-generated branding campaign with phenomenal scale. Life of Dad won a silver ...
(Aug 2, 2017, Adweek)
Police Official Resigns After Posting Racist Facebook Meme: 'He Didn't Do This to Offend Anybody'
An assistant police chief in Estherwood, La. has resigned after posting a racist meme on Facebook. Assistant police chief Wayne Welsh on Sunday posted a picture of a cartoon mother drowning her daughter in the bathtub, accompanied with the phrase ...
(Aug 2, 2017, TIME)
Is This Meme On Kashrut Symbols Funny? Forward Editors Weigh In
It then lists three symbols: the widely known “OU” symbol and two others — one denoting copyright protection; the other denoting registered trademark protection. Noting the “C” and the “R” within circles, the meme refers to the former as for ...
(Aug 2, 2017, Forward)
The Internet Is Pretty Sure Tom Holland Is Constantly Hiding a Frog in His Mouth
It's 2017, which means no one is safe from becoming the hottest new meme—not even Spider-Man. Tom Holland, who most recently starred in Spider-Man: Homecoming, recently became subject to a particularly wild fan theory about a frog. On July 27, Tumblr ...
(Aug 2, 2017, Seventeen.com)
Outback Steakhouse Kills Satanism Meme With a Single--and Hilarious--Tweet
What would you do if your company was accused of Satanism? That was the question Outback Steakhouse had to answer--quickly--this past Thursday. The restaurant chain's stores tend to be deployed in an equidistant way around the perimeters of major ...
(Aug 2, 2017, Inc.com)
Does a Meme Accurately Advise Victims of Rape and Sexual Assault?
The meme's first claim is that it is possible to seek medical treatment without reporting the rape or assault to the police, a statement that is gray at best. Confidentiality standards maintained by the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN ...
(Aug 2, 2017, snopes.com)
Professional meme-maker gets paid to help record labels
Ka5sh is an Instagram meme-making star with more than 30,000 followers. He said that he makes a living by making memes for mainstream record labels to promote their artists. He told NBC News that he has survived off meme money the entire year, ...
(Aug 2, 2017, WTOL.com)
Sachin Tendulkar Attends Rajya Sabha, Instantly Becomes Meme On Twitter
Former Indian cricketer and Rajya Sabha MP Sachin Tendulkar was seen in the Upper House of Parliament today. But something seemed to have irked the God of Cricket, who has been criticised for his poor attendance in the Rajya Sabha. A screengrab from ...
(Aug 3, 2017, NDTV)
Watch: Deepak Sharma, the man who took a 'Meme' too far
Deepak Sharma started off as an average 'meme-subject'. He had done something funny that the internet liked (or couldn't stand) and that catapulted him into a world of 'sharers', 'likers', and 'commenters'. His entry into the meme world was an angry ...
(Aug 3, 2017, Firstpost)