The Year in Memes!
Everybody’s getting into meme-tracking! Google’s got their Zeitgeist, Facebook’s got their grandma-like definition of memes. So Slacktory made our own chart of 2012′s best memes!
Rickrolled a corn, Clarence Thomas fuck ;lkasjdfk!
I love stupid.
Good Guy Greg always has your back. 10 Guy is too high to function. Combined, they really aren’t as helpful as they want to be.
Plenty more where that came from. See all seventeen Good 10 Guy Greg images
Very proud of this one.
The #completedbooks hashtag became a thing this morning, prompting people to add words to book titles to make them funny. A ton of people contributed and good times were had. Nick picked his favorites and put them on a page, saving you the trouble of picking through an ungodly list of jokes.
Read the rest at #CompletedBooks: The Best Jokes From the Twitter Hashtag Game
[ Links to the tweets above: @ahuj9 / @EnterDuration / @Cheesegod69 / @MrPhetz ]
This game was so successful, even the highlight reel is massive. If you’re really pressed for time, you arrogant prick, just read ahuj9’s contributions.
Josh Fonner has been interviewed several times about coping with becoming a “fat goth” meme — twice. I asked him to write an open letter to Heidi Crowter, the girl whose face is on the “I can count to potato” meme. He also wrote to her mother:
“You talked about how distraught the knowledge of this meme made your daughter, and if I’m being 100% honest here, the person to blame for that is you.”
Read both letters: The Potato Letters: Josh Fonner Writes to “I Can Count to Potato” Victim and Her Mother
I did not expect this opinion from Josh!
HERE’S SOME MORE INTERNET ON YOUR INTERNET IN YOUR OH GOD I CAN SEE FOREVER
The communication potential of memetics: we recognize the form, even if the specifics of the situation being parodied is alien to us.
“Author of New 4Chan Book Talks About Moot, the Memesphere, and What Happens When They Find Your Apartment Number | Betabeat
one question from the Interview with Cole Stryker
THIS MAN IS A STRAIGHT UP G. THATS SOME GANGSTA SHIT RIGHT THERE. 4CHAN SOUNDS JUST LIKE THE HOOD. GOOD LUCK MAN.
How do you expect them to respond to the book?
Well there are these ‘Rules of the Internet’ that 4chan has come up with and the first two are copied directly from Fight Club. ‘The first rule of /b/ is don’t talk about /b/. The second rule of /b/ is don’t talk about /b/.’ So even though I feel I’m very sympathetic to the 4chan community and try to give them a fair shake, just the fact that I’m talking about them and revealing their secrets is probably gonna make them angry. It’s kind of like when your favorite band goes to a major record label. And suddenly everyone is aware and everyone pretends to be a huge fan and everyone knows all their lyrics. You don’t feel so special anymore. I kind of feel like that’s what 4chan has experienced over the last six months or so. They’re on the front page of newspaper every few days.
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(via therealscumbagsteve)
Scumbag Steve thinks Cole is a straight up G. U jelly?
