Boom goes the dynamite
As a follow-up to my previous post about ROFLthing NYC, memes, and doin' it for the lulz, check out KnowYourMeme.com. It's the most n00b ("newbie")-friendly presentation of internet memes on the interweb-holes.
KnowYourMeme.com is relatively shallow in terms of it's depth of informing, but does a great job of capturing enough examples of each meme to really exemplify what the memes mean. It's also been keeping up with the internet well in the last week (faster than most sites, anyway). It's already got the Christian Bale freak-out meme and the David After Dentist meme covered.
Check out the Milhouse meme to get a good meta understanding of this:
When you've delved into the site and it's memes and have a "want to learn more?" moment, jump over to the infamously famous Encyclopedia Dramatica to really sink your teeth into the chaos.
My favorite meme from the site - using one of the tamer examples to showcase it - is the Xibit meme:
Spend some time in the KYM memeverse to edumacate your brainholes. But be warned: the idea that something inhernetly underground, pervasive, and anarchistic are appearing organized in "public" means the site won't last either due to angry 1337 haxxors, or - and I think this is most likely - erosion of accuracy. Case in point: simple remixes like Christian Bale and David After Dentist aren't really memes.
So get your lulz while the gettin's good.
KnowYourMeme.com is relatively shallow in terms of it's depth of informing, but does a great job of capturing enough examples of each meme to really exemplify what the memes mean. It's also been keeping up with the internet well in the last week (faster than most sites, anyway). It's already got the Christian Bale freak-out meme and the David After Dentist meme covered.
Check out the Milhouse meme to get a good meta understanding of this:
Millhouse is not a meme, but "Millhouse is not a meme" is a meme. This usually plays out in a forum or comment section, somewhat to the same of effect of the famous "Who's on first", "Who's on second" dialogue, but much less wittingly, like two children alternating indefinitely between "No I didn't", "Yes you did".
For example:
Commenter: Millhouse is a meme.
Commenter: Millhouse is not a meme.
Commenter: Millhouse is not a meme, but "Millhouse is not meme" is a meme.Hopefully at this point, someone will call a Combo Breaker to end the mindless de ja vu.
My favorite meme from the site - using one of the tamer examples to showcase it - is the Xibit meme:
Spend some time in the KYM memeverse to edumacate your brainholes. But be warned: the idea that something inhernetly underground, pervasive, and anarchistic are appearing organized in "public" means the site won't last either due to angry 1337 haxxors, or - and I think this is most likely - erosion of accuracy. Case in point: simple remixes like Christian Bale and David After Dentist aren't really memes.So get your lulz while the gettin's good.
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