Meme Day 6: Disaster Girl

Day 6 of our meme adventure takes us to Disaster Girl.  This is one of those memes that you're not sure if you should laugh at or...not laugh at, so falls under the category of "Mean or Funny".  It started with a picture that a guy (Dave Roth) took of his girl in front of a fire fighter training fire.

The face is what does it, and from this picture, people Photoshop the girl's face on to other pictures of disaster-like scenes, making it look like she caused that disaster.  These are some of the less controversial ones.

Reference to Kanye interrupting Taylor Swift's acceptance speech at the 2009 MTV awards

Weekly Meditation: 1 Thessalonians 5:11

Therefore encourage one another and build each other up...

Meme Day 5: Chuck Testa

There's a bear in my bed!  NOPE.  Chuck Testa.  I present you with some viral content (~10.6M views as of writing):

Here shows the close link between viral content and memes.  Things go viral, and people make spin offs of the viral content.  In this case, there were a whole range of spin offs, ranging from the same deal as in the video (fake animals) to the outlandishly outlandish.

Classic from The Lion King

Meme Day 4: Hipster Kitty

Hipsters are people that do things because they're not mainstream, or don't do things because they are mainstream.  They listen to music that no one has ever heard of before, don't listen to the bands that everyone listens to, do crazy things just cuz no one else does it that way, liked everything before everyone else liked it, and even knew about everything before everyone else.  They're obsessed with being "underground".  At least that's the way the interwebz portrays them, and the interwebz never lies.  So along came Hipster Kitty as a way to poke fun at them.

Meme Day 3: Philosoraptor

What do you get when you cross a velociraptor and a philosopher?  Why a philosoraptor of course!  Now if you take that philosoraptor and give him a voice, what would he say?  It certainly wouldn't be anything other than deep thoughts and witty remarks, duh!  Such as:

Meme Day 2: X all the Y

Today's meme is technically called "X all the Y", but that's just the format that it takes.  You replace X and Y with something, depending on the take on the meme at the given moment.  It originally started from a Hyperbole and a Half blog post, where the author was explaining how she cyclically sets out to be an adult, but then realizes how much responsibility it is.  The two particular images from her blog that started the meme are:

Of course, as memes do, many takes on this quickly appeared.  The first time Steph saw this, it was actually on that blog, and she didn't realize it was a meme.  Katie was trying to get her pumped up to clean ALL the house, so showed Steph that blog post.  Steph mentioned it to me, and I informed her that it had actually turned into a meme!

I think this one was created with our dogs in mind

Meme Day 1: Rickrolling

The first meme of February (also known as Febtober by Sean Connery...at least according to SNL's rendition of Celebrity Jeopardy) - Rickrolling!

A Rickroll is when someone pulls a bait and switch on you on the Internet, making you think that you're going somewhere, but you end up seeing a video of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" music video.  So for instance, I might say something along the lines of, "Here's the awesome trailer for this new movie that everyone's been waiting for!"  You click on the link, expecting to see a trailer for that new movie.  Instead, you get a video to Rick Astley's music video.

Many variants of this have been spotted in the wild.  There's that time in 2008 that fans of Rickrolling flooded the European MTV music awards and got him the title of Best Act Ever.  If you happened to click on any links on YouTube's main page on April Fool's day 2008, you would have been Rickrolled - every front page video redirected to the Rickroll video.  Then there's that time that Rick was himself Rickrolled.

I've recently been made aware of the Russian Rickroll.  It's also the theme song of trolling (hence the "trolololo").  We might get into that another time.