♥How Internet Memes Start♥

[Heartz♥]

The term Internet meme (pronounced /mi:m/, meem) is a phrase used to describe a catchphrase or concept that spreads quickly from person to person via the Internet, much like an esoteric inside joke.[1] The term is a reference to the concept of memes, although this concept refers to a much broader category of cultural information.

From my experience, memes always seem to start with one simple sentence:


Quote:
Originally Posted by Straked
This blog is bad and you should feel bad.


From that point, it usually takes another person to comment on it:

Quote:
Originally Posted by Falconv1.0
150,000 times what Straked said.

Then another would comment on that comment, as a means of supporting the first sentence:

Quote:
Originally Posted by Denzi
Straked... Sig this...



People begin noticing the first sentence, since they are eventually linked to where the sentence was posted through the sig quote.

Then one specific person with a huge sense of humor notices it, and comments the poster on how hilarious it was:

Quote:
Originally Posted by Heartz
http://www.smashboards.com/showpost....46&postcount=2

You seriously make me cry with laughter.


Then the poster and the commenter begin discussing that particular sentence. The commenter starts using the sentence and adapting it to certain circumstances:


Quote:
Originally Posted by Heartz
This blog is religious and you should feel holy.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Heartz
This sig is funny and you should feel goofy.

Then the poster would fear that it would wear out:

Quote:
Originally Posted by Straked
Let's use that less, it'll grow old.


Several days later, other people begin to use the sentence in their own way as well:


Quote:
Originally Posted by Hive Mind
That was bad and you should feel bad.


Next, the first commenter is astonished that others began using it as well:


Quote:
Originally Posted by Heartz
I'm surprised how widespread this is. This is the best meme Straked ever started.


But then, the commenter is scolded by a staff member for believing something so silly can be all that great, while supporting the meme himself:

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mini Mic
It's a bad meme and you should feel bad for liking it... also for posting that horrible sig.


Even after said quote, people continue to use the sentence, because it is much too awesome to avoid doing:

Quote:
Originally Posted by StinkomanFan
This is a bad thread and you should feel bad for not locking it.


In other words, internet memes usually begin with something so simple and silly. This one in particular has yet to become popular, and I will die before I see it erased from cyber existence.


By the way, this blog is bad, but I don't feel bad.

 

[Frown]

This blog is pink and you should feel pink.

 

[Anthony523]

Lol If Anything I Say This In Real Life.. Like When My Mom Listens To Lil Wayne...

I'll Say Lil Wayne Is Bad And You Shoud Feel Bad.

 

[Red Arremer]

I think this is not really a meme yet - more like a fad.

 

[Clownbot]

*takes notes*

This blog is tooooo intelligent (and you should feel smart).

 

[Heartz♥]

I think this is not really a meme yet - more like a fad.

I forgot you hate memes. lololol

 

[Suntan Luigi]

This blog is interesting, and I think it's interesting.

 

[Red Arremer]

I forgot you hate memes. lololol

No I don't.

 

[Heartz♥]

No I don't.

 

[Red Arremer]

THAT is the only exception. But I don't hate it for being a meme but rather because it sucks.

 

[Heartz♥]

THAT is the only exception. But I don't hate it for being a meme but rather because it sucks.

So....I guess:

This meme sucks and you should su-


...I can't finish that without being naughty.

 

[Red Arremer]

This pun was bad and you should feel bad.

 

[OFY]

So....I guess:

This meme sucks and you should su-


...I can't finish that without being naughty.

Oh god.

Umm I kinda wanna start being nice in this community, but stay off /b/ please.

 

[Clownbot]

Oh god.

Umm I kinda wanna start being nice in this community, but stay off /b/ please.

What was so terrible about that? It was technically relative to the blog subject..... And even though I'm a little embarrassed to admit it, I though it was funny.

 

[Darkslash]

Forced meme's are almost as bad as raw chopped rotting liver. Don't force a meme.

lolchillinz.

 

[OFY]

What was so terrible about that? It was technically relative to the blog subject..... And even though I'm a little embarrassed to admit it, I though it was funny.

When people start using memes irl and using the candlejack meme outside of chan based threads, it's pretty bad.

Also im wat u consider an old ***.

js

 

[Darkslash]

When people start using memes irl and using the candlejack meme outside of chan based threads, it's pretty bad.

Also im wat u consider an old ***.

js

Do you like it?

 

[urdailywater]

When people start using memes irl and using the candlejack meme outside of chan based threads, it's pretty bad.

Also im wat u consider an old ***.

js

Were you around for Cracky Chan??!?!?!



...umm, anyways.. I like this blog because it states fact tbh.


There's really not much to say here.

 

[OFY]

Were you around for Cracky Chan??!?!?!



...umm, anyways.. I like this blog because it states fact tbh.


There's really not much to say here.

I was around for cracky chan, zoe, habbo raids, the introduction of 711chan, 7chan, jj, 420, and almost all of it, i joined a couple of months after the first one open.

I wasn't on futaba or 2channel sadly.

 

[U900]

This happened to me because someone RAWR for fun.

 

[Espy Rose]

I had no idea that this wasn't even a meme yet. I've been using the phrase since the beginning of 2001, and I've heard it multiple times before that on several websites on the internet.

Meh, whatever. They do kinda cycle around.

 

[Heartz♥]

Oh god.

Umm I kinda wanna start being nice in this community, but stay off /b/ please.

I never knew you, ye worker of iniquity.

And for you to know what /b/ means, you must hang out there alot, because I just Google'd it and found out it stands for 4chan.

 

[OFY]

I never knew you, ye worker of iniquity.

And for you to know what /b/ means, you must hang out there alot, because I just Google'd it and found out it stands for 4chan.

<33333


no homo

oh yea i forgot I used to go on TOTSE back in the day of AOL dialup

 

[DtJ Glyphmoney]

You need to give Futurama some props here too.

 

[Red Arremer]

Futurama, eh...?

 

[DtJ Glyphmoney]

Ohohohoho.

Futurama.

 

[Phir3]

I never knew you, ye worker of iniquity.

And for you to know what /b/ means, you must hang out there alot, because I just Google'd it and found out it stands for 4chan.

/b/ is only one of the many boards on 4chan. The other boards aren't so bad(or so I've heard..)

 

[Browny]

yeah what others have said... that quote originated long ago from Futurama not on the internet :/

 

[Heartz♥]

yeah what others have said... that quote originated long ago from Futurama not on the internet :/

I'm sorry, but what quote again?


Edit: Oh ****. I see. Ok, thread lock plz.

 

[Red Arremer]

/b/ is only one of the many boards on 4chan. The other boards aren't so bad(or so I've heard..)

Yea. That's true. 4chan is a huge image-board. /b/ is the random board where all that crap is posted.
The other boards even loathe /b/. XD

 

[Heartz♥]

I don't really care for this blog.

 

[Man of Popsicle]

In french it's pronounced [maym] or [mem].

 

[Pleather]

Futurama, eh...?

I just died.

 

[REL38]

The only internet meme that I love and hate at the exact same time.

This meme is bad and I should feel bad.

 

[Teran]

I have subscribed to this thread so I can infract people more fairly later.
Right now, I feel like permabanning most of the people that replied. Yeah, I'm a nice guy.

Don't you remember my pet peeve with one liners? READ THE ANNOUNCEMENTS STICKY AGAIN THEN.

 

[Xivii]

I always thought it was prounounced Me Me. Silly Zen. I never even heard of memes until I came to this site.

 

[Teran]

Edit: Oh ****. I see. Ok, thread lock plz.

Ah it seems that in my initial rage I didn't notice this. Aaaalriiight.