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Culture Buzz What happens when Moot, Ben Huh, Jamie Wilkinson, and I sit together at the same table to talk Internet Memes? We'll find out on October 1st! Registration is now open!
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When I first took note of the Successful Black Man meme bumping around the web I thought, “Well that might be offensive to some.” However, it almost always made me laugh, though I'll admit to feeling kind of guilty for doing so. But now you can check out the funniest ones and feel guilty, too!
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In TV, when a series “jumps the shark,” it means that it runs out of steam, and reaches the point where the premise has become tired and threadbare. But the idea of “jumping the shark” shouldn't just be limited to television. It happens on the Internet, too, when beloved running jokes and memes wear out the welcome and start to get stale.
Rage comics, animated GIFs, Nyan Cat, and other forms of online visual culture get the respect they deserve in “Off Book” from PBS Arts. Researchers, artists, and thinkers from BuzzFeed, Know Your Meme, MemeFactory, Dump.fm, and Morningside Analytics share their views on how Internet Memes impact the world.
Memes: It's as if the dumb in-jokes your group of friends told in middle school were saved for posterity and recycled every year or so to annoy you. But we love them anyway. Right? Don't we? Yikes. (From, via)
Antoine Dodson, the double rainbow guy, and Numa Numa star in this epic adventure. I guess this is a real thing?
Culture Buzz Not even Batman can escape the wrath of the mighty internet trolls. Batman! Y U NO USE GUN? (Via College Humor.)
Culture Buzz This seems like a dystopic future. Corporations be running the internet! This was created by Atom.
If there is an afterlife, I hope that it looks something like this.
Paul Krugman is a little busy accepting his Nobel Prize, so he posted this LOLcat to his blog instead. To quote NYT commenter Aaron K: “More like the NobLOL Prize.” Try the veal!
A Shiba watching a Shiba playing with a Shiba! The puppy loves the puppies, just like we do. My head is exploding out of both cuteness and internet meme-ness.
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This captioned LOLcat photo was found in a Seattle antique store, and the photograph is dated 1905. I Can Haz Cheeseburger notes a few grammatical differences, but it is close enough: our internet meme calendar is now over 100 years old.
This impossible challenge is floating around the web. I can only do it when I am lying on my back - but that is cheating.
Tech Buzz The man who started the internet meme-machine and creator of LOLcat, 4chan, at age 15 was profiled in the Wall Street Journal. He's a mystery wrapped in an enigma. In researching him, I feel like I've delved into the seedy internet underground of teenage boydom.
Tech Buzz Take a photo of yourself after you’ve emptied your email inbox down to zero items. It’s like the Master Cleanse of email. I’ve got 931 unread items in my inbox…so needless to say, it’ll be some time before you’ll be seeing a photo of me looking victorious.
An actual scan of a newspaper advice column about how to deal with a godson whose loves “scouting out camel toads” at the pool. This is a classic email forward from 2005 but it is never too late to get high huffing Camel Toad.
At a town hall style meeting in Portland, Maine today a woman…
And you thought these reactions were bad. A million face palms is not…
After receiving some breaking “information,” very funny twitter-man…
