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Smash Mouth is happy to be a meme, sorry about that Carrie Fisher tweet
The Smash Mouth meme-production mill does not rest. With each day comes a new iteration, a new version of “All Star,” a new official tweet plumbing the depths of tastelessness. Why, was it just two weeks ago when the band commemorated the deaths of ...
(Jan 9, 2017, A.V. Club)
How 'Bee Movie' became a meme movie
Memes are the most inexplicable “cultural” products of today. What becomes a meme is so unpredictable, and it's that randomness which makes them so hilarious –– of course, only if it isn't a “stale” meme. The amount of time a meme is relevant ranges ...
(Jan 10, 2017, The Michigan Daily)
How Memes Turned Migos's “Bad and Boujee” Into a Billboard Hit
“Bad and Boujee” is a great song but an even better meme — one that has inspired popular joke formats on Twitter for the past couple of months. There's one based in funny images that represent the hyperbolic reaction to the song's sparse intro ...
(Jan 10, 2017, The Ringer (blog))
#Saltbae Is the Sensual Food Meme of Your Dreams
On the surface, he's just a good-looking man from Turkey, but to the internet hivemind he has proven to be much, much more. Nusret Gökçe is a 32-year-old butcher and restaurateur with six restaurants across Turkey bearing his name (Nusr-Et). But what ...
(Jan 10, 2017, Eater)
How a group of Redditors is creating a fake stock market to figure out the value of memes
Like jokes, dreams, and teen culture, it's uncool to explain a meme. Explanations take effort, and effort is antithetical to an art form that begs to be perceived as effortless. r/MemeEconomy is a quirky solution, a subreddit in which people discuss ...
(Jan 10, 2017, The Verge)
The jacked referee from the National Championship is a meme waiting to happen
Monday night's national championship football game between Clemson and Alabama featured a number of fantastic athletes and an historic finish, but the real talk of the game was the jacked referee who clearly spends as much time in the gym as any of the ...
(Jan 10, 2017, Rare.us)
Bernie Sanders Is Trying To Set The Meme
The meme [the left] wants to put forth on Trump has no validity. You can say he's said nasty things – you cannot make the blanket statement like Bernie Sanders is trying to do. Bernie Sanders is not in the truth game. Bernie Sanders is not trying to ...
(Jan 10, 2017, 93.1 WIBC Indianapolis (blog))
Bernie Sanders Is Setting The Anti-Trump Meme
The meme [the left] wants to put forth on Trump has no validity. You can say he's said nasty things – you cannot make the blanket statement like Bernie Sanders is trying to do. Bernie Sanders is not in the truth game. Bernie Sanders is not trying to ...
(Jan 10, 2017, 93.1 WIBC Indianapolis (blog))
Someone Created A Meme Coloring Book And It's Everything We Never Knew We Needed
“This past year, many significant events occurred, and I noticed that many people on the internet, myself included, resorted to using these memes to either cope or respond to these events,” Wong told BuzzFeed. “I wanted to document the number of memes ...
(Jan 11, 2017, BuzzFeed News)
Drake shares beard meme for Obama farewell
To celebrate Barack Obama's farewell speech, the Toronto rapper posted a photo of the president with Drake's beard to his Instagram account. “As a Canadian that calls America home for part of the year, I will always carry your words and the memory of ...
(Jan 11, 2017, Entertainment Weekly)
Drake Pays Tribute to Obama by Sharing Face Mashup Meme
Drake is paying tribute to President Barack Obama by sharing am image from a popular meme of the Canadian rapper's face mixed with the president's. Drake shared the picture on his Instagram on Tuesday night following Obama's farewell address to the ...
(Jan 11, 2017, ABC News)
How Pigs That Love Oats Became a Meme That's About to be Everywhere
According to Know Your Meme, the original pig painting was created in 1850 by an unknown artist. It's currently in the British Folk Art collection at a gallery called Compton Verney in the U.K. You can donate to the gallery to "adopt" the painting ...
(Jan 11, 2017, The Daily Dot)
Destroy All Monsters: The Meme-ification of ROGUE ONE
This meme-ification serves as a kind of corrective, as people sit with something they've enjoyed and creatively express what it meant to them, removed from any obligation to describe in "objective" prose whether a movie deserves 3 stars or 4, or has a ...
(Jan 11, 2017, ScreenAnarchy (blog))
Drake Paid Tribute to Barack Obama By Giving Him a Drake Beard in This Picture
Views rapper and self-described “Champagne Papi” Drake may hail from north of the border—he's a proud Toronto boy—but that didn't stop him from paying public tribute to exiting president Barack Obama following POTUS's farewell speech in Chicago on ...
(Jan 11, 2017, TIME)
All These People Have Never Been to Prague in Their Lives
On Tuesday night, BuzzFeed news published a 35-page dossier allegedly assembled by a former British spy. Among the allegations contained in the document is a claim that Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, met secretly with Kremlin officials in Prague in ...
(Jan 11, 2017, New York Magazine)
The joke Meme Economy is a now real thing called NASDANQ
Meme Economy is a particularly self-aware corner of Reddit, where the popularity of memes are prognosticated on with impressively little comedy or context. It's like an airless cube of self-reflexive commentary, and it is, depending on your stomach for ...
(Jan 11, 2017, A.V. Club (blog))
Smash Mouth know they're a meme and they're cool with it
After all, memes can now get you to the top of the Billboard charts. “It's funny because a large percentage of our fans don't even know what a meme is — heck, we didn't really know either at first," he says. But since "All Star" "still sells weekly ...
(Jan 11, 2017, ChartAttack)
How this 'crying liberal' Iowan became a worldwide meme for gloating over Trump's win
DeVylder has lived a surreal, virtual double life as her meme of infinite varieties has spread far and wide across the internet. I tried to get Reuters, the photo's owner, to let us publish the photo in print, to no avail. But just Google “crying ...
(Jan 11, 2017, DesMoinesRegister.com)
'I have never been to Prague' meme is the only way to prove you've never been to Prague
How can you prove you've never been to Prague? It's easier than you think. One of the salacious details in the intelligence dossier published by BuzzFeed about Donald Trump was that his special counsel, Michael Cohen, met with Russian officials in ...
(Jan 11, 2017, The Daily Dot)
Congrats #SaltBae, you're 2017's first awesome meme
There were some huge stories this week on the internet. If people weren't talking about Barack Obama and Joe Biden's adorable bromance, or Donald Trump and Mike Acosta's verbal ping-pong, they were probably talking about this Turkish chef. His name is ...
(Jan 12, 2017, Memeburn)
