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Memes Are People Too: Meet the Viral-Video Stars of ROFLCon
Don't let the goofy names of panels, like "Adventures in Aca-meme-ia," fool you; the featured panelists and giddy audience members were all too eager to dive into serious discussion. Christina Xu and Tim Hwang, who co-founded the conference in 2008 as ...
(May 8, 2012, The Atlantic)
She The People
She also joked around with the two creators of the hyper-popular meme about her. She went so far as to invite them to her office and write her own meme for them. Various media outlets finally declared Hillary cool. Hillary, unfiltered, has hit a ...
(May 8, 2012, Washington Post (blog))
Mike Leach appears to acknowledge the Craig James hooker-killing meme
The famed Mike Leach - Craig James war may have been limited to minor skirmishes recently, but there's still definitely some tension there, as seen by Leach's takedown of James during a Reddit Q+A Monday. Tuesday saw one of the funniest moments yet in ...
(May 9, 2012, Awful Announcing)
TREAT 'EM MEME: Twitter jumps on Julia Gillard, Tony Abbott class war of words
Abbott Meme 1 Abbott Meme 3 Abbott Meme 2 At issue is the Schoolkids Bonus scheme, funded in last night's Budget, which will pay families $820 for secondary school children and $410 for those in primary school. It was the first piece of legislation ...
(May 9, 2012, Herald Sun)
TREAT 'EM MEME: Twitter jumps on Julia Gillard, Tony Abbott class war of words
His reply sparked an avalanche of captioned photographs on the internet featuring Mr Abbott, including these: Abbott Meme 1 Abbott Meme 3 Abbott Meme 2 At issue is the Schoolkids Bonus scheme, funded in last night's Budget, which will pay families $820 ...
(May 9, 2012, NEWS.com.au)
Morning Meme: Amendment One Passes, You Can Win a Date With Parker Young, and ...
Morning Meme: Amendment One Passes, You Can Win a Date With Parker Young, and ...
(May 9, 2012, AfterElton.com)
Meet the Viral-Video Stars of ROFLCon
Don't let the goofy names of panels, like "Adventures in Aca-meme-ia," fool you; the featured panelists and giddy audience members were all too eager to dive into serious discussion. Christina Xu and Tim Hwang, who co-founded the conference in 2008 as ...
(May 9, 2012, The Atlantic)
Seeking Chen Guangcheng's freedom in China via 'Internet meme'
Supporters of the activist lawyer have kept the torch burning for his release using Internet memes: online pieces of content that spread their message without rousing China's infamous censors. By Arthur Bright, Correspondent / May 9, 2012 A meme using ...
(May 9, 2012, Christian Science Monitor)
Feels Bad Man: How Mobile Is Stopping the Lulz
By Andy Baio Last weekend, the internet invaded the MIT campus for ROFLCon III, the biennial two-day conference that brings together the subjects of net memes with those who study and adore them. Among the meme celebrities — Tron Guy, Paul “Double ...
(May 9, 2012, Wired News)
Getting A Job Washing Cars Is Harder Than Getting Into Harvard
It might as well be fodder for a startup-spoofing meme. Select labor-intensive industry (car washes) pair it with young entrepreneur who walked away from millions at another company (Travis VanderZanden, formerly of enterprise social networking site ...
(May 10, 2012, Forbes)
ROFLcon: 'Internet memes' thwart China's political censors
Supporters of the activist lawyer Chen Guangcheng have kept the torch burning for his release using Internet memes: online pieces of content that spread their message without rousing China's infamous censors. “Internet meme” is a term that defies easy ...
(May 10, 2012, Alaska Dispatch)
ROFLCon 2012: Antoine Dodson, David After Dentist And Double Rainbow Guy In ...
ROFLCon 2012: Antoine Dodson, David After Dentist And Double Rainbow Guy In ...
(May 10, 2012, Huffington Post)
Obama Endorses Gay Marriage: Let The Memes Begin
Less than 24 hours later, online denizens have slowly started developing memes surrounding POTUS's evolution on the issue. Traditionally, memes have been defined as the genetic offshoots of culture, passed along organically to create a sort of common ...
(May 10, 2012, International Business Times)
Chen Guangcheng Supporters Evade Chinese Government Censorship Through Memes
Thanks to the proliferation of websites like Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, and Instagram memes are an endless source of entertainment for netizens. These symbols of expression can be a photograph, a video, a picture with captions, or just about anything ...
(May 10, 2012, PolicyMic)
Morning Meme: Dustin Lance Black Is Ready To Campaign, Yves St. Laurent Was ...
Morning Meme: Dustin Lance Black Is Ready To Campaign, Yves St. Laurent Was ...
(May 11, 2012, AfterElton.com)
Funniest WWE Memes on the Internet
The internet could easily suck hours out of your day long before memes came around. These funny text-on-photo combinations about the WWE won't be enjoyed by the general public. There are too many inside jokes and references some folks just won't get, ...
(May 11, 2012, Bleacher Report)
How Memes Help Chinese Dissidents and Chen Guangcheng Supporters Evade Censorship
Thanks to the proliferation of websites like Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, and Instagram memes are an endless source of entertainment for netizens. These symbols of expression can be a photograph, a video, a picture with captions, or just about anything ...
(May 11, 2012, PolicyMic)
The Hungry Hungry Hippos Games
It's time the meme was extended to the original novel... Haymitch insisted that we meet in the Training Center for breakfast: Peeta and me to eat it, Haymitch to see if he can keep it down. As he greets us he vomits all over himself, which makes Peeta ...
(May 11, 2012, Huffington Post (satire))
Twitter Meme #MittRomneyFilms Rightly Rips Mitt Romney on Gay Bullying Incident
This is a question that has been pervasive on many economic and social issues. Weigh in: How has social media impacted the portrayal of presidential candidates and political issues? Twitter Meme # MittRomneyFilms Rightly Rips Mitt Romney on Gay ...
(May 12, 2012, PolicyMic)
Upstream in the meme: why Siri calls the Lumia 900 the 'best phone ever'
Whatever - it's a nice meme, but it doesn't bear fact-checking. Kudos for pointing all this out goes to MG Siegler, who points out how difficult it is to swim upstream through the meme to get back to the original source: After a series of never-ending ...
(May 12, 2012, The Guardian (blog))