Home > Meme Archive
Meme Archive 10/2018 (Page 9)
Today I Discovered The First-Ever Internet Meme
What are memes? Why are they funny? Where did they come from? We may not ever find the answers to these questions, but we can answer one question that might have popped up for you: What was the first meme ever? This questioon was the focus of an ...
(Oct 22, 2018, Lifehacker Australia)
From uproarious meme to poignant play (with salad)
ONSTAGE Sheila Callaghan appreciates a good meme. Several friends, knowing this, sent her the notorious one of “Women Laughing Alone with Salad,” after the blog Hairpin highlighted stock photos of women who looking awfully happy with their bowls of ...
(Oct 22, 2018, 48 Hills)
We spoke to admins of all your favourite uni meme Facebook pages
It was the year of damning Daniels and Evil Kermits, but 2016 also saw the birth of a new style of meme; the University Facebook meme. Memebridge was first in the field. Founded in late 2016, it amounted 10,000 likes in two months and kicked-off a ...
(Oct 22, 2018, The Tab)
memes are bad for our health, apparently
In an appeal to the UK government, the academics behind the new study, entitled Analyzing The Effects of Internet Memes on Young Teenagers' Health and Health Behaviors, said that by making light of unhealthy eating, memes are contributing to a teenage ...
(Oct 22, 2018, i-D (satire) (blog))
Snapchat's new segmented lens tech makes the screaming cowboy meme real
However, one filter may have already reached its zenith just hours after its release: it lets you use the skybox-segmenting tech to add the iconic screaming cowboy meme (aka singer Jimmy Barnes as a guest vocalist in Kirin J Callinan's 2017 song “Big ...
(Oct 22, 2018, The Verge)
The '1 alcoholic bev' meme is Too Real, but in a good way
If you've ever decided you "weren't going to get political tonight," then embarked on a monologue about single payer after one (1) wine, this one's for you. The "1 alcoholic bev" meme, which is making the rounds on Twitter at the moment, admits what we ...
(Oct 22, 2018, Mashable)
The rich kids of Weibo made their money into a meme and it didn't end well
Since the meme is essentially materialistic, it was ripe for co-opting by tech companies, pet food companies, and the government alike, all for self-promotion and marketing. All types of brands are using it to show off their wares. Xiaomi, for example ...
(Oct 22, 2018, The Verge)
Twitter 'redraw meme' reimagines 'Lady and the Tramp' as an anime
Last week, Korean Twitter fell crazy in love with one artist's human adaptation of a scene from Lady and the Tramp. Artist @pixxcc reimagined the characters Peg and Lady as gijinka, or anthropomorphisms in a cutesy anime or manga style, showing how the ...
(Oct 22, 2018, The Daily Dot)
YouTube CEO urges video creators to speak against European 'meme ban' proposal
The proposal has become controversial in Europe where it has been informally called the “censorship machine” and the “meme ban.” A final vote on the proposal is expected to take place next year. Internet companies, including Google, have in the past ...
(Oct 22, 2018, The Hill)
Monday Memes: Boston Baked Memes
In this week's Monday memes we will focus our firepower on the Boston Redsox. Hate 'em or love 'em we are gonna meme 'em right here and now. I will get the party started and even leave a few blank pics behind for you to create your own meme or if you'd ...
(Oct 22, 2018, AZ Snake Pit)
The latest hilarious viral meme involves a ladder made out of emojis
The latest meme to grace Twitter involves a ladder made out of emojis, which people have used to describe the various hilarious predicaments they find themselves in. Here are some of the best versions of the meme, which illustrate what a slippery slope ...
(Oct 22, 2018, Independent.ie)
YouTube CEO warns EU 'meme ban' threatens the open internet
YouTube is sounding the alarms at the highest level over new controversial copyright legislation in the EU. In a new blog post updating YouTube creators on the company's priorities for the remainder of the year, CEO Susan Wojcicki focused on Article 13 ...
(Oct 22, 2018, Mashable)
Pokémon Go leans hard into Bidoof meme, now that it finally can
Generation four Pokémon recently debuted on Pokémon Go, bringing some Sinnoh favorites to the mobile game. Most importantly, Bidoof is now a catchable Pokémon! Bidoof is a normal type Pokemon, described as a “plump mouse Pokémon,” though it ...
(Oct 22, 2018, Polygon)
Meme-woomba: Garden City memes take over Instagram
In the past few months, several Instagram accounts have popped up sharing memes based around living in the Garden City. For the uninitiated in internet subculture, according to the Oxford Dictionary, a meme is "an image, video, piece of text, etc ...
(Oct 23, 2018, Chronicle)
This dog photo perfectly replicates the distracted boyfriend meme
After Reddit user minarosli took a snapshot of her brown husky at the dog park and posted it on Reddit on Monday, the photo was hailed as the official dog version of the distracted boyfriend meme. “I took a candid pic of my dog at the park and it's ...
(Oct 23, 2018, The Daily Dot)
The 'weird flex but ok' meme is breaking the internet and it's hilarious
The internet is back at it with another viral meme. 2018 has already come up with some classics. In the past few weeks alone, we have been blessed with the presidential alert meme (when Donald Trump invaded people's phones), the Elizabeth Gillies ...
(Oct 23, 2018, PopBuzz)
The NPC meme went viral when the media gave it oxygen
Suddenly, a meme that had been hyper-localized to one fetid corner of the internet has been telegraphed to a massive audience in a jarringly forced display of virality that highlights just how quickly an inside joke from an insular community can spread ...
(Oct 23, 2018, The Verge)
The '1 alcoholic bev' meme pokes fun at our lack of self-control
We need all kinds of memes to litter the internet as a way to represent our emotions, anxieties, and humor. The distance meme, which began cropping up in early October, illustrates the inevitability of our hard-wired poor decisions—and the internet's ...
(Oct 23, 2018, The Daily Dot)
Twitter Turned Trump's “Beautiful Ted” Comment Into the Best Meme on the Internet
The relationship between former opponents Ted Cruz and President Donald Trump hasn't always inspired warm and fuzzy feelings. Trump, as a matter of fact, has stated that Cruz's father was a part of the Kennedy assassination and has said offensive ...
(Oct 23, 2018, Remezcla (blog))
YouTube CEO says EU 'meme ban' threatens millions
Memes, parodies, educational videos, or any sort of remixes, the type of content that's extremely commonplace and would generally fall under fair use, could be in danger. This could have a huge effect on the internet. GOOGLE, FACEBOOK AND TWITTER ...
(Oct 23, 2018, Fox News)
