The web can be what we make of it, and if we want to make it about auto-tuned news and bad flash animations, so be it. By promoting interaction, these dumb expressions, typos and slow-motion replays of people falling down define a large aspect of our culture. Memes may not be respectable but they are there, provoking responses and imitations. However, the fact is that millions of people are out there videotaping their reactions to “2 Girls 1 Cup,” and if participation doesn’t constitute culture, then what does? And true, a banana singing “Peanut Butter Jelly Time” should probably not be compared to Faulkner. It is easy to look at trends like this and renounce them as stupid, beneath you or devoid of cultural significance. Users chose to interact with the phrase and turn it into a way bigger deal than it probably ever should have been, and, because of their involvement, the poor translation will go down in Internet history. Such incarnations of “All your base” were an example of the fact that, for certain memes, manifestations and user recreations could be essentially more interesting than the meme itself. Someone even wrote a poem combining HTML hex codes and the meme, creating a geek’s ultimate Hallmark card: “Roses are #FF0000, Violets are #0000FF, All my base are belong to you.” Pictures of the Mona Lisa and The Cat in the Hat were photoshopped and then given the expression as the caption The Laziest Men on Mars created a techno song and used the phrase as lyrics. The phrase originated from a shoddy translation in a Chinese video game once web users discovered it, they repeated it constantly.
The nerdiest of memes tend to stay within their subcultural circles, but they occasionally make it to the mainstream, causing n00bs to say “FTW.” Probably the best example of a well-known meme that many people just don’t like is “All your base are belong to us.” The meme might appear to not serve a purpose, but laughing at someone else’s expense (be it the victim or Rick Astley himself) always serves the purpose of entertainment. The trend involved providing a link and claiming it was relevant to any topic, but instead giving the URL of Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” music video instead. Most tend to have some sort of a mocking element, as “Rick-Rolling” did. The possibilities of a meme are at once endless and seemingly pointless.
And while you might not be proud of the number of times you’ve watched the YouTube video “Daniel After Dentist,” your involvement with the phenomena is in fact “real life.”
#Staying afloat meme cracked#
If you’ve ever cracked a Chuck Norris joke or been to, you’ve participated in an Internet meme. Notably, their formation and content has been altered by the existence of the Internet: The web has spawned a whole new environment for communication, and the memes that developed online are the ones everyone talks about. From religious philosophies to phrases like “that’s what she said,” memes have continually played a large role in society. And you were doing so in one of the easiest and most opular-pay ways - by spreading a meme.Ī meme is generally defined as a cultural idea that is spread by imitation and repetition. You may have thought you were participating in a secret club, but you were really just participating in culture. You could eat unch-lay with the ool-cay kids, and no one would tell you to am-scray. In eighth grade, speaking the language made you opular-pay. Remember when it was all about Pig Latin?
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