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The month in memes: Drake's Views and the fifth annual Ed Balls Day
Somewhere between the meme as christened by Richard Dawkins (that is, a component of culture that is disseminated through human interaction) and the term as it now exists in the popular imagination (a graphic with text superimposed to side-splitting ...
(May 11, 2016, The Guardian)
TI Gets His “Roots” Picture Dragged Through The Meme Streets Of Twitter [PHOTOS]
T.I. adds another impressive line to his acting resume appearing Roots. Twitter adds another victim to its meme universe. The rapper/actor/businessman will be starring in The History Channel's new rendition of Alex Haley's slavery epic Roots. He shared ...
(May 11, 2016, Hip-Hop Wired)
Salesforce went down for a whole day — and it became an internet meme
Its site basically went down for the whole day and the company is still reporting lingering problems. The outage occurred at Salesforce's North American 14 site and it affected a lot of Salesforce's customers in the Bay Area, the company's backyard, as ...
(May 11, 2016, Business Insider)
Justin Timberlake reenacts 'It's gonna be May' meme
Four years after the “It's gonna be May” meme became the unofficial yearly signal beckoning the end of April, Justin Timberlake has jumped on the bandwagon. During an appearance with Capital FM, a UK music radio station, Timberlake gleefully sang out ...
(May 11, 2016, Entertainment Weekly)
Curt Schilling Shares A Truly Transcendent Meme On Facebook
Curt Schilling reposting memes on Facebook is no longer an occurrence worth regularly noting, unless it's an exceptionally ridiculous meme. This is one of those times. Prepare yourselves. The meme involves Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Kermit the Frog ...
(May 11, 2016, Deadspin)
Sanctuary City Activist Retweets 'Make America Mexico Again' Meme
The “Make America Mexico Again” meme is a takeoff on Donald Trump's strong pro-American and anti-illegal immigration stance. However, the underlying message of the meme is serious. Many Mexicans and Mexican-Americans think that states including ...
(May 11, 2016, Breitbart News)
Charles Oakley says Michael Jordan doesn't like 'Crying Jordan' meme
Chicago Bulls great Michael Jordan may not care to sue over the 'Crying Jordan' meme, but that doesn't mean it's displeasing to him. According to former teammate Charles Oakley, MJ isn't a fan. After speaking with TMZ about Charles Barkley, Oakley was ...
(May 11, 2016, Sports Illustrated)
Dangerous meme targeting Sanders supporters is actually bomb recipe
COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) -. A meme circulating on social media channels recently, claiming to create a blue "glowstick" for Bernie Sanders supporters, is actually the recipe to create a chlorine-based bomb. Designed the font and color scheme used by the ...
(May 11, 2016, Tucson News Now)
John Cho Stars In Every Blockbuster Movie In Viral Internet Meme
First it was a Doctor Strange trailer with Tilda Swinton playing the Tibetan Ancient One. Then it was a photo of Scarlett Johansson as Japanese cyborg Motoko Kusnagi in Ghost in the Shell. Add to that, the first-look images of Elizabeth Banks as the ...
(May 12, 2016, Us Weekly)
Know who doesn't like the Crying Jordan meme? Michael Jordan.
If you're getting tired of the Michael Jordan meme, you're in good company. His Airness himself doesn't care much for Crying Jordan, at least according to one of his friends. “No, he don't like it,” Charles Oakley, a Chicago Bulls teammate of Jordan's ...
(May 12, 2016, Washington Post)
How Memes Shaped the 2016 Presidential Election
Throughout this election season, memes have surged past the front page of Reddit and into news headlines, both shaping and reflecting candidates' popularity or their doomed campaigns. Electmeme is a website that monitors these trends and allows users ...
(May 12, 2016, Complex)
Lithium Mining vs Oil Sands Meme: A Thorough Response
Somewhere, someone is wrong on the internet. Yes, that's shocking. And normally I'd feel just about as compelled to correct that someone as I would to put my hand in the corned beef slicer at the deli. But dammit, sometimes someone is just so wrong on ...
(May 12, 2016, CleanTechnica)
A Crying Jordan History Separates The Man From Meme
In an all-time feat of prestige media acknowledging dumb internet, the New Yorker's website has offered an enjoyable account of the Crying Jordan meme and the famous basketball guy it happens to feature. It is partly an origin story for the teary face ...
(May 12, 2016, Deadspin)
The Strange Journey of 'Dat Boi,' the Year's Best Meme So Far
Dat Boi, like many great memes, is in fact a combination of two older memes. The call-and-response dialogue derives from a less well-known meme that has been working its way around Tumblr over the last year or so: A similarly goofy image of what ...
(May 12, 2016, New York Magazine)
Ryan Gosling recalls his confusing first encounter with the 'Hey Girl' meme
For diehard Ryan Gosling fans, the phrase “Hey, girl” is more than a mere greeting — it's a way of life. And yet, as the Canadian actor, heartthrob, and source of endless meme inspiration reveals in a preview clip from Friday's episode of The Ellen ...
(May 13, 2016, Entertainment Weekly)
7 Friday The 13th Memes To Make You Laugh On This Creepy Day
After five whole months out of the woods, we've already got another Friday the 13th on the books — the first of 2016 — and thus, I have assembled seven lucky Friday the 13th memes to distract you from your friends' bad luck, poor choices, and general ...
(May 13, 2016, Bustle)
Watch Drake Talk 'Mini-Drake' Meme, Play Faceketball on 'Fallon'
The rapper also addressed the viral mini-Drake meme inspired by the Views album cover, which depicts a (photoshopped) Drake sitting atop Toronto's CN Tower. A Views meme generator allowed fans to plant a "baby Drake" on any photograph. The Tonight ...
(May 13, 2016, RollingStone.com)
Charles Oakley: Michael Jordan Hates the Crying MJ Meme
The Crying MJ meme refuses to die, and according to Charles Oakley, his good buddy Michael Jordan is no fan. Jordan, who we can't imagine spending too much time online, has said in the past that his camp is “monitoring” the fad so that no one profits ...
(May 13, 2016, SLAM Online)
This 14-Year Old Actress is More Than Just a Petty Meme
On her initial reaction to seeing herself a meme she shares, “When I first saw the meme, I honestly didn't understand why people were making memes of me… Then I was going through them and they're actually really funny. I don't know who created these ...
(May 13, 2016, Essence.com)
Geek-themed Meme: a gamer's lament
Not being much of a gamer, I consulted with a few teenagers regarding this installment of our Geek-Themed Meme of the Week series, and, yes, it would seem that this is a common complaint. 051316blog meme phone games. If you'd like to catch up on the ...
(May 13, 2016, Network World)
