Internet Cat Costumes
Internet memes make great Halloween costumes, although they are usually only clever for one year. The exception is cats, because their popularity (at least on the internet) goes on and on. Here are some clever LOLcat Halloween Costumes.
Jacki was Spaghetti Cat in 2008. You don’t have the time to make a better costume for this year, unless you have been working on it a while already. In case you’ve forgotten, here is the origin of Spaghetti Cat.
Brad O’Ferrell showed up at the “A Night To ReMEMEber” internet meme party in a Keyboard Cat costume. All it took was a cat costume and a keyboard.
Matt Cutts is a LOLcat. Or he was for Halloween last year. The cheeseburger was a nice touch!
This LOLcat costume is perfect for trick-or-treating. You won’t get the full effect until you see the back of the t-shirt.
This Ceiling Cat costume should be easy to do, depending on the size of the ceiling. If you are going to sit on the porch and hand out candy, this would be OK. It might be a problem if you are a cab driver.
You can buy Hello Kitty costumes of all kinds, but making your own is a real accomplishment. Pink Daisy at Craftster made her own version of Hello Kitty for Halloween 2008.
This costume was posted earlier on Neatorama, but this collection wouldn’t be complete without Lime Cat, Melon Cat, Helmet Cat, or whatever you want to call this. Flicker user Alida Saxon’s brother put this costume together at the last minute. The helmet is a basketball painted green, and the fur was salvaged from a stuffed toy.
A warning: if you dress as an internet meme for Halloween, be prepared to explain yourself. Unless you’re meeting up with your online group, you’ll probably have to tell the whole story of your costume. If you’re willing to do that, the few who will “get it” will make the entire effort worthwhile.
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LOL Fat Cats
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Move over, LOLcats! There’s a new meme in town. Here’s LOL Fat Cats: Link (Now, why didn’t I think of this?) – via Nag on the Lake
Previously on Neatorama: Top 15 Amazingly Fat Cats
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Internet Meme Scenery
Andy Baio of waxy.org blog posted 23 photos of backgrounds from various internet memes. Like Garfield without Garfield, the result is strangely disconcerting.
Would you still recognize what these Internet memes are, well, without the actual memes?
These photos are banal out of context. Only someone familiar with the original memes would sense something’s amiss, like the set of a play waiting for the actors to stumble into history.
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What Makes A Meme Successful?
You know you’ve made it as a meme when someone put a giant mural up …
Josh Zubkoff did one on the Invisible Bike LOLcat in a building in San Francisco: Link – via MySA Blog Favorite office Time Wasters
John of The Zeray Gazette asks this interesting question: what causes an Internet meme? What gives some web sensation staying power?
What makes some video, idea, or motif a predominant meme? Why do people blog about bacon, zombies, and lolcats, but not so much about pork shoulder roast, mummies, and parakeets? Why does one guy mouthing the words to Numa Numa in front of his PC become famous, while almost all others who do likewise do not?
John went on to explain his theory, which includes penetrability (i.e. how a successful meme crosses niche web communities) and instantaneous comphrehensibility (how easily it can be grasped in under 10 seconds).
Actually, I can answer that question with one word: 4chan.
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Lolcat, the Theme Song
Finally. After years of being an internet meme, the Lolcats have their own theme song. And like a bad car wreck on the freeway, there’s just NO WAY you can not look at it.
I dare you: Link (with apologies to The Cure)
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2008 Urlies: Meme of the Year
To celebrate/honor/make fun of everything that happened on the Web in 2008, the staff at Urlesque blog made their own award (now that’s a neat idea!), the 2008 Urlies.
One of the funnest categories is the Meme of the Year. This year, "Fail" scored an Epic Win at the Urlies …
As far as memes are concerned, it was the year of FAIL. Sure, the four-letter word has been trolling around the web in various forms for years, but as countless image macros fueled the fire and everyone added the catchphrase to their vocabularies this year, writers were sparked to write lengthy pieces about the phenomenon — thus instigating a complete FAIL overload. Oh the irony.
And yes, Neatorama was nominated for "It" URL: Site of the Year, but we lost out to one of the neatest websites around today and one of my own personal favorites, Buzzfeed.
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