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Meme Archive 06/2013
How Band Nerds Hijacked Japan's Biggest Photo Meme
Earlier this year, a group of Japanese schoolgirls uploaded photos of themselves imitating anime style attacks. The photos spawned numerous imitators, ended up on television, and spread beyond the country's borders. And now? Now, band nerds are ...
(Jun 1, 2013, Kotaku Australia)
Meme: Hope For Illinois, Gay Days Gets Legit, Megyn Kelly Rips Her Fox ...
Meme: Hope For Illinois, Gay Days Gets Legit, Megyn Kelly Rips Her Fox ...
(Jun 2, 2013, TheBacklot)
What's in a Meme?
What's in a meme? Online backup service Mozy attempts to answers that question in an infographic that dissects these bite-size doses of Internet culture. Originally defined by scientist and author Richard Dawkins in 1976, "meme" is short for the Greek ...
(Jun 2, 2013, Mashable)
What the Hell Just Happened Last Month? (In Memes)
By now you're probably familiar with our monthly meme recaps. We've decided to switch things up a little bit while still recounting the funniest (or strangest) things that happened in the world, as told by the Internet. Allow us to introduce What the ...
(Jun 2, 2013, Complex.com (blog))
'SHOW ME THE MOGGY!' Internet meme cats agent Ben Lashes on why Grumpy ...
'SHOW ME THE MOGGY!' Internet meme cats agent Ben Lashes on why Grumpy ...
(Jun 3, 2013, Metro)
Journeying from meme to movie deal
The internet has added much value (including nuisance value) to our lives and this includes brightening our day with its numerous user-generated memes. The best memes of all, though, are the animal memes. And the star of animal memes in the internet ...
(Jun 3, 2013, Daily News & Analysis)
Meme: Charice Comes Out, How Michael Douglas Got Cancer, and Dan Savage ...
Meme: Charice Comes Out, How Michael Douglas Got Cancer, and Dan Savage ...
(Jun 3, 2013, TheBacklot)
Grumpy Cat Billboard Turns Beloved Meme Into Anti-Drinking PSA
Grumpy Cat has become a staple of our culture, so it was only a matter of time before his iconic scowl would be used for anti-teen drinking PSA billboards, right? Right! Though preventing teens from using and abusing alcohol is a cause we can all get ...
(Jun 3, 2013, The Inquisitr)
The 12 Best Papoose Crashes Hot 97's Summer Jam Memes [PHOTOS]
Papoose stole the show at Hot 97's Summer Jam XX, and not in a good way. The slander being hurled at the Brooklyn rapper for pulling a Lil Mama is currently running rampant on the Internets, to our comedic enjoyment. The memes started almost ...
(Jun 3, 2013, Hip-Hop Wired)
Arsenal Players Perform Their Own Hadouken Meme On Asian Tour (Photos)
Staying down with da kids, Arsenal's players have climbed aboard the latest internet fad whilst on their tour of the Far East. The Hadouken meme consists of photos of people pretending to have been hit by balls of lightning in a sort of Street Fighter ...
(Jun 3, 2013, Who Ate All The Pies)
This week's media meme: The GOP might be “overreaching” on these scandals ...
This week's media meme: The GOP might be “overreaching” on these scandals ...
(Jun 3, 2013, Hot Air)
Cleveland's “Opportunity Corridor” Fiasco in Memes
Cleveland is preparing to build a $350 million highway through some of its poorest neighborhoods. This pet project of some of the region's elites has been cynically named “the Opportunity Corridor.” Local writer Mansfield Frazier helpfully explains the ...
(Jun 4, 2013, Rust Wire)
Meme: UK Marriage Debate Gets Ugly, NOM To Cry To Congress, New York ...
Meme: UK Marriage Debate Gets Ugly, NOM To Cry To Congress, New York ...
(Jun 4, 2013, TheBacklot)
Tiananmen Square: Duck Memes Posted To Get Past Chinese Censors On 24th ...
Tiananmen Square: Duck Memes Posted To Get Past Chinese Censors On 24th ...
(Jun 4, 2013, Huffington Post UK)
The New Baby Mugging Photo Meme Isn't What it Sounds Like
Baby Mugging doesn't sound like a trend you would appreciate but it's actually really adorable. Parents take photos of cups and mugs in front of their babies, making it look like the toddlers are inside of them. It all started when the writer of the ...
(Jun 4, 2013, Complex.com)
How To Create A Viral Meme
It starts with the origins of memes, which were defined in Richard Dawkins' 1976 book The Selfish Gene and are short for the Greek word 'mimeme' meaning 'imitated thing.' The infographic shows one of the first known LOLcats from the 1870s, created by ...
(Jun 4, 2013, PSFK)
'Big Yellow Duck' meme banned by Chinese social media
To the uninitiated, the phrase “Big Yellow Duck” probably doesn't conjure thoughts of revolution or social media-inspired uprising. Yet China's largest social media platform, Sina Corp.'s Weibo service, banned searches for that term and several others ...
(Jun 4, 2013, Daily Caller)
Is Disclosure's New Video Based on a Weird Christian Meme?
And then you'll tell that human that this Disclosure track is actually based on a meme. And not just any meme. An old (like, circa 2010) insider-y joke between UK bass music fans where the frenetic beats of a drum and bass song are superimposed over ...
(Jun 4, 2013, Noisey (blog))
Know Your Meme Creator Explains Why Turning Down YouTube Funding Might ...
Know Your Meme Creator Explains Why Turning Down YouTube Funding Might ...
(Jun 4, 2013, NewMediaRockstars)
'Public Wanking' Is The Latest Unfortunate Video Meme
Until today, I had never heard of the Janoskians, says the old 25-year-old man. But 25 is too old to be amused by the apparently well-known “YouTube comedy group, pranksters, singers, entertainers, and stunt performers,” who hail from Melbourne ...
(Jun 4, 2013, Uproxx)