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Internet Memes
by Admin Wed Dec 02, 2009 5:22 am
1] Rick Rolls
It involves tricking people into clicking a link to a music video for the 1987 Rick Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up". The URL can be masked using services like TinyURL.com and said to be relevant to the topic at hand. If a person falls for the trick, he is said to have been rickroll'd.
2] Lolcats
These captions might look completely random, but they actually have some popular sentence structures and may even contain other memes. It's believed this phenomenon originated from 4chan imageboards. You often encounter lolcat pictures on internet forums which don't frown upon posting lolcat images as responses to the topic.
3] This Is Sparta!
THIS. IS. SPARTA!!! is a meme inspired by the brutal and overly dramatic movie "300" where the Spartan king Leonidas shouts the line before killing a Persian messenger.
4] O RLY? OWL
O RLY? (an abbreviation of "Oh, really?") is yet another internet phenomenon in a form of image macro (although just the phrase without the picture is often used as well). It dates back to at least year 2003 when it was used on the Something Awful forums. The photo of the snowy owl in the original image was taken by nature photographer John White, who posted it to the newsgroup alt.binaries.pictures.animals back in 2001. The phrase is often used in online forums to respond to posts in a sarcastic or mocking way. It is one of the internet memes that you are most likely to see on internet chatrooms.
5] It's Over Nine Thousand!
IT'S OVER NINE THOUSAND! is one of the most popular anime memes. It originates from the English dub of the Dragon Ball Z (DBZ) anime which is famous for it's painfully long, over-the-top fights with a lot of "powerups" and screaming. People often use this meme when numbers or levels of some sort are involved.
6] Loituma Girl
Loituma Girl, also known as "Leekspin" is a combination of a 4-frame animation loop taken from a Japanese anime Bleach and a gibberish part (all the words are made up) of a traditional Finnish folk song "Ievan Polkka" (sometimes misspelled Levan Polka) sung by the Finnish quartet Loituma. The song is taken from the band's debut album Things of Beauty(1995). The animation comes from the second episode of Bleach, and features Inoue Orihime twirling a spring onion in her hand. In the anime, jokes are often made about Orihime since she likes to cook weird and often inedible stuff.
Those are by far the greatest internet memes EVER.
It involves tricking people into clicking a link to a music video for the 1987 Rick Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up". The URL can be masked using services like TinyURL.com and said to be relevant to the topic at hand. If a person falls for the trick, he is said to have been rickroll'd.
2] Lolcats
These captions might look completely random, but they actually have some popular sentence structures and may even contain other memes. It's believed this phenomenon originated from 4chan imageboards. You often encounter lolcat pictures on internet forums which don't frown upon posting lolcat images as responses to the topic.
3] This Is Sparta!
THIS. IS. SPARTA!!! is a meme inspired by the brutal and overly dramatic movie "300" where the Spartan king Leonidas shouts the line before killing a Persian messenger.
4] O RLY? OWL
O RLY? (an abbreviation of "Oh, really?") is yet another internet phenomenon in a form of image macro (although just the phrase without the picture is often used as well). It dates back to at least year 2003 when it was used on the Something Awful forums. The photo of the snowy owl in the original image was taken by nature photographer John White, who posted it to the newsgroup alt.binaries.pictures.animals back in 2001. The phrase is often used in online forums to respond to posts in a sarcastic or mocking way. It is one of the internet memes that you are most likely to see on internet chatrooms.
5] It's Over Nine Thousand!
IT'S OVER NINE THOUSAND! is one of the most popular anime memes. It originates from the English dub of the Dragon Ball Z (DBZ) anime which is famous for it's painfully long, over-the-top fights with a lot of "powerups" and screaming. People often use this meme when numbers or levels of some sort are involved.
6] Loituma Girl
Loituma Girl, also known as "Leekspin" is a combination of a 4-frame animation loop taken from a Japanese anime Bleach and a gibberish part (all the words are made up) of a traditional Finnish folk song "Ievan Polkka" (sometimes misspelled Levan Polka) sung by the Finnish quartet Loituma. The song is taken from the band's debut album Things of Beauty(1995). The animation comes from the second episode of Bleach, and features Inoue Orihime twirling a spring onion in her hand. In the anime, jokes are often made about Orihime since she likes to cook weird and often inedible stuff.
Those are by far the greatest internet memes EVER.
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Re: Internet Memes
by Unchained Wed Dec 02, 2009 8:58 am
I feel that duckroll should be here as it was the precursor to rickroll.
http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Duckroll
I actually prefer LOLcats though.
http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Duckroll
I actually prefer LOLcats though.
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Re: Internet Memes
by Paul Wed Dec 09, 2009 1:13 am
The British scientist Richard Dawkins introduced the word "meme" in The Selfish Gene (1976)
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Re: Internet Memes
by Corey Fri Dec 25, 2009 9:47 pm
They're having some problems with the video right now, but...
Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog!
http://www.drhorrible.com/mushortio.html
...oh and...
The Guild!
http://watchtheguild.com
Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog!
http://www.drhorrible.com/mushortio.html
...oh and...
The Guild!
http://watchtheguild.com
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Re: Internet Memes
by Corey Fri Dec 25, 2009 10:13 pm
The deceptive cake is a Black Forest Cake 
Ah, I love portal. I should play it again.
Ah, I love portal. I should play it again.
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