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While we haven’t posted much about Miss Leslie Hall, if you’ve been following YouTube memes over the last few years, then you’ll immediately recognize this knitted amigurumi version of her.
Link Via Crafty is Cool
2011 has been another year of internet surfing for amusement. What will we remember about this year on the ‘net in the future? Maybe some of the top memes. Even now, considering the shelf life of an internet meme, going through the 2011 list is like a stroll down nostalgia lane. Ranker lists the top 50, which you’ll want to bookmark, as it is quite extensive. Link
Pictures of scared guests from the Nightmares Fear Factory have been sweeping the net lately, but how many pictures of scared people can you really look at? Fortunately, some people have been taking to remixing the images and the results are hilarious.
Thundera is under attack by stupid Internet memes and the only weapons that can defeat them are even stupider Internet memes. In this video, Cartoon Network’s MAD imagines the 80s cartoon ThunderCats the way that it thankfully never was.
-via Miss Cellania
While there are always tons of memes floating around the net, most of them are mediocre at best. Scumbag brain, on the other hand, is something all of us can relate to, whether it involves keeping us up at night or replaying the same catchy son over and over. Catch more of the meme over at BuzzFeed.
Spanning from over a decade ago to this summer’s memes, Ranker has gathered together 35 catchy viral musical videos that swept the internet. You can relive the good old days of “All Your Base” and “Peanut Butter Jelly Time” and also catch up with tunes you may have missed as well. Lyrics in some songs are NSFW. Link
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For more than a century, social scientists have attempted to create a model that will accurately predict what images, songs, or memes will become popular. Now Gregory Berns, a neuroeconomist at Emory University, thinks that certain fMRI signatures in the brains of teenagers are reliable indicators of future popularity:
The divination is performed with the help of a functional magnetic resonance imaging machine, or fMRI, scanning the brains of juveniles while they listen to demo records. Emory University plumped the findings with the bold headline, “Teen brain data predicts pop song success.”
If true, this would be the equivalent of having tomorrow’s stock pages today. Helpful, that. Determine what tickles the pleasure points of the adolescent id and you ought to be able to plot more efficiently how to separate teens from their money.
Link -via Althouse | Photo by Flickr user jake.auzzie used under Creative Commons license
The crudely-drawn faces that constitute rage face comic memes may seem vague and random, but they actually represent very specific emotions. This chart from the scholars at Know Your Meme explains the comparative relationships between them based upon depression-elation and bliss-rage axes. You can view a larger image at the link.
Link via The Mary Sue
Sheer genius. Andy Graulund and Matt Miles created a music video for Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” using only exploitable image macro memes. If you’re not sure what these images are, then (1) consult Know Your Meme and (2) you’re not spending enough time on the Internet. Remedy that problem forthwith. There will be a quiz tomorrow, and it is worth half of your semester grade.
Link via Geekosystem
Encyclopedia Dramatica was always a place to get in-depth information on internet culture, memes, and history, but the site was rarely linked here at Neatorama because it was NSFW and far from family-friendly. Now Encyclopedia Dramatica is no more, and a new site has risen in its place. The new Oh Internet is dedicated to the same type of information, but is not open to unlimited editing by users as ED was. Geekosystem has more on the big switch. Link to story. Link to website.
How many internet memes are incorporated in this music video? All of them! But they happen so fast you won’t catch them all the first time around. -via Laughing Squid
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What would the web look like as a board game? Can you name the memes?
Today, it’s not land that we look to obtain, it’s content. Content is currency. What more easily transferable currency is there than Memes. I think you get where we’re going with this… Introducing: MEMEOPOLY.
Ah, the memories of a year chock-full of useless and incomprehensible things to occupy your time. These are the internet memes of 2010, causing a laugh or two as they fly around the web. If by chance you’ve missed any of them, you can become familiar with all 25 before someone calls you out as a n00b. If you are familiar with them, it’s a chance to relive the greats, or maybe not-so-greats of the past year. Link -Thanks, Joanne Chu!
You know LOLcats and RickRolls, and you are probably somewhat familiar with Pedo Bear, but do you know Preved Medved and Snel Hest? They are internet memes from non-English speaking countries. A couple of years ago, I wondered why there were so many photographs of half-naked men hanging outside apartment windows as their lover’s husbands arrived -now I know: they was born from a Russian meme called PhotoExtreme. Snel Hest is a Swedish horse and Preved Medved is a Russian bear.
“Preved Medved,” though slightly and deliberately misspelled, means “Hello Bear” in Russian. In practical terms, the rules of the meme are the same as for his equally retarded American cousin, Pedobear: take any regular picture, Photoshop Preved Medved into it and it’s as good as a joke.
One image is NSFW. Link -via The Daily What
The Bayeux Tapestry {wiki} illustrated the Battle of Hastings in 1066. The Historic Tale Construction Kit allows anyone to use pictures from the original tapestry to illustrate other things. Many panels have been made to illustrate pop culture and internet memes, and you can see in two collections. Link one and link two -via The Litter Box
Squirrel photo bombs are sooo 2009. Seal bombs, now that’s what’s hip now!
If you don’t know your memes, then you’ll have to check out the video of keyboard cat before you see watch this keyboard dog video. For those of you who are internet nerds (like me), who would you vote for, keyboard cat or keyboard dog?
If you don’t celebrate Christmas because you belong to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, there’s no reason you can’t still enjoy delicious goodies this holiday season. Here’s instructions on how to make your own edible spaghetti monster, complete with edible googly eyes.
Urlesque has a great collection up of the “webbiest papercrafts” aka papercrafts made from internet memes. Personally, I love the two lol cat ones, but if you prefer hamster on a piano, keyboard cat or spaghetti monster the best, I wouldn’t blame you.
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The Great Internet Migratory Box of Electronics Junk is sort roving flea market meets Internet meme.
The idea, hatched by the guys over at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, is to send a box containing random electronics junk to somebody who would take a few pieces, write about them, add some item, and then send it on its merry way to somebody else.
You can request a box or even start one of your own … and don’t forget to document the journey at Flickr!
Recipient Conditions for The Great Internet Migratory Box Of Electronics Junk:
1. Take out and add as much electronics junk as you like (but keep it small enough to fit in a USPS flat-rate Priority Mail box or the equivalent for your postal system).
2. Write up, photograph, document or otherwise publish in some way online at least one thing you took out (suggested flickr tag: TGIMBOEJ, see also: flickr group ).
3. There is a little book in the box. Add a checkmark by your name to show that the box has been to you. Also propose a future recipient by adding their name and e-mail address to the book.
4. Within two weeks pass the box along to one of the people whose name is in the book. Before mailing it to them, send them this list and make sure that they want to participate.
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