What's in a Meme?

Let's talk about memes. This picture is more true than you think. Memes can be hilarious and genius but also very inappropriate and/or disgusting. Practice caution when viewing. Internet memes as difined by Wikipedia are, "At its most basic an Internet meme is simply an idea that is propagated through the Web. This idea may take the form of a hyperlink, video, website, hashtag, or even just a word or phrase. This meme may spread from person to person via social networks, blogs, direct email, news sources etc...." These are the essences of why the internet is awesome. Hilarious videos aren't the only thing that go viral. I would even describe a meme as something that doesn't gain mainstream attention but is still widely seen on the web.

I don't know why this is true, but it is. Some of the most recent memes that you might recognize are Rick Rolling or Lolcats. A lot of memes start on websites like 4chan or Reddit. Never go to 4chan. You will see some very terrible things. However, 4chan can have some very genius things come out of it.

This is Bad Advice Dog. It is traditionally displayed with text that suggest the viewer do something very inappropriate. It has since spread across the internet like wildfire and having several different spinoffs such as Philociraptor, Courage Wolf, Insane Wolf (NSFW), Foul Bachelor Frog (NSFW) and any other similar pictures. Anytime you see a picture with an animal in the middle and text around it with a multicolored pinwheel background of any color, this is where it originated from. You can even go to memegenerator.net and create your own memes using any picture, background or text.

This is one of my personal favorites. It comes from a portrait artist in the 18th century name Joseph Ducreux who actually wasn't boring and lame. His pictures were very animated (for that time anyway). Someone posted his picture on 4chan one day in which it had the text "Disregard women gain currency" on it. This was a 18th century rewording of the song "F*** B****es Get Money" by Notorious B.I.G. It exploded on the internet with everyone putting every conceivable rap song ever redone in 18th century style. This is very hilarious and "Disregard women, gain currency" is one of my life mottos.

This is the last one I'm going to talk about. I may do a second part because there a so many hilarious memes and I could spend all night writing about them. This is the original Rage Guy. It's usually in a 4 tile comic in which displays something that is less than favorable happening and the last tile is the face of the person saying a half expletive. I love these because I've been in other similar situations and I've totally felt exactly like that.

Like I said I may do more, but I can only do so many for right now. If you go to knowyourmeme, you can learn about a lot more memes and how they are awesome.

I'm sure the blog is still pretty rough, but I'm sure it will get better as I go. Just bear with me!