Every single Internet meme!

[WakataDreamer]

Ok people... this is a game. Here's how to play: Post "Name of meme:", followed by the name of an internet meme (preferably well-known), and then post the meme itself below. Below the meme itself, post any notes on it, such as how it originated. You cannot post more than one meme per post, and you cannot double post (or triple, or quadruple, etc.). You also cannot post a meme that has already been posted. Let's try to post every single meme on teh Interweb! Me first: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name of meme: "So, I herd u liek mudkips?" Notes: This originated because on a certain anime forum (I think it was 4Chan) people used to randomly post "So, I herd u liek mudkips?" and then post a really annoying mudkip video or picture, which varied. Eventually, it became so ever-present that it was rendered an "official" meme.

[no-Name]

Elephant crush, first used by Spartiate, January 25, '08. To him, it was simply "random shit", but DV turned it into so much more.

[WakataDreamer]

@no-name: But perhaps more international of a meme? Yes, its popular on DV, but in the great big wide wide world of teh Interwebz? Methinks not many people know about it.... Good job, still. (But try to follow the post layout, though?) Ok, here goes nothing: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Name of meme: Lolcat Notes: Lolcats were first introduced on the notorious 4chan and are characterized by a humorous image containing a cat, and a caption or text somewhere on the image, usually large, in a signature style of bad spelling/grammar. This has come to be known as "Lolcat language," and there is even a project underway to translate the entire Bible into lolcat language (the scary part is, I'm not kidding).

[Marvo]

Ban Wakata Dreamer, he linked to 4chan. magick

[Lucky27]

The de-motivational poster: Began with Despair, Inc's more professional looking posters. They've now evolved into a shitstorm of having to scan through 100's of pictures before something half-way intelligent emerges.

[DarkLucideity]

Notes: This originated because on a certain anime forum (I think it was 4Chan) people used to randomly post "So, I herd u liek mudkips?" and then post a really annoying mudkip video or picture, which varied. Eventually, it became so ever-present that it was rendered an "official" meme. Wrong... It originated from a story http://www.internetseriousbiz.com/wp...07/mudkipz.jpg related to mudkips, which was posted over and over on 4chan until "Do you like mudkips" and mudkips had reached meme-status. Notes: Lolcats were first introduced on the notorious 4chan and are characterized by a humorous image containing a cat, and a caption or text somewhere on the image, usually large, in a signature style of bad spelling/grammar. This has come to be known as "Lolcat language," and there is even a project underway to translate the entire Bible into lolcat language (the scary part is, I'm not kidding). Wrong. Cat photos with captions first originated on 4chan, most often being posted on "Caturday", until it was declared that every day is Caturday. The word LOLcat came from http://icanhascheezburger.com/ when it took the pictures and claimed them as its own. It spread into the general population while its quality suffered dramatically. The lolcat language and bible things are true though. Some people just have nothing better to do than piss on the grave of a joke that is dead. Please get your facts straight before you claim to know the origins of a meme. This isn't a flame, it's just a correction.

[WakataDreamer]

Thanks for the clarification on the mudkips. I wasn't too sure about the exact origin but many people and sources have claimed that it first reared its ugly head on 4chan, so I just posted the most widely held belief. Same thing for the lolcats. I knew about Caturday and ICanHazCheezburger, but I was trying to condense it was technically originally created in a 4chan thread, even if the term "lolcat" hadn't been applied to it yet. The core idea started on 4chan, and I didn't want to post a lengthier explanation. So yes, my info is a bit lacking and may be inaccurate in parts. I'm sorry for any mistakes. I'll post the Rickroll on here if no one beats me to it, don't think I won't... PS@Lucky27: good job And you followed the guidelines better than no-name PSS@marvo: go make some chocolate, dutchboy.

[Grod]

Stop posting.

[WakataDreamer]

Stop posting. Never.

[Ynot]

Duckroll from 4chan Tricking people into clicking a link that leads to the picture an original (and funny) precursor to the rickroll

[Catbus]

Wrong... It originated from a story http://www.internetseriousbiz.com/wp...07/mudkipz.jpg related to mudkips, which was posted over and over on 4chan until "Do you like mudkips" and mudkips had reached meme-status. Wrong. Cat photos with captions first originated on 4chan, most often being posted on "Caturday", until it was declared that every day is Caturday. The word LOLcat came from http://icanhascheezburger.com/ when it took the pictures and claimed them as its own. It spread into the general population while its quality suffered dramatically. The lolcat language and bible things are true though. Some people just have nothing better to do than piss on the grave of a joke that is dead. Please get your facts straight before you claim to know the origins of a meme. This isn't a flame, it's just a correction. I love how seriously people take 4Chan's memes.

[Sandform]

Quick someone post that website that has a whole bunch of memes on a time line. My favorite is the guy people said was a God because every time his name was referenced in any thread anywhere he would show up and make a comment and then disappear within a few minutes. EDIT: http://www.dipity.com/tatercakes/Internet_Memes all the way from 1970 to now. Spoiler for emotes: Emoticons, now many times seen as graphic, even animated, images in internet forums, pages and emails, started off as simple text used to easily indicate that some specific text was sarcasm or 'just a joke' or to indicate an emotion such as happiness or sadness. From the website of Scott E. Fahlman (source below): Yes, I am the inventor of the sideways “smiley face” (sometimes called an “emoticon”) that is commonly used in E-mail, chat, and newsgroup posts. Or at least I’m one of the inventors. By the early 1980’s, the Computer Science community at Carnegie Mellon was making heavy use of online bulletin boards or “bboards”. These were a precursor of today’s newsgroups, and they were an important social mechanism in the department – a place where faculty, staff, and students could discuss the weighty matters of the day on an equal footing. Many of the posts were serious: talk announcements, requests for information, and things like “I’ve just found a ring in the fifth-floor men’s room. Who does it belong to?” Other posts discussed topics of general interest, ranging from politics to abortion to campus parking to keyboard layout (in increasing order of passion). Even in those days, extended “flame wars” were common. Given the nature of the community, a good many of the posts were humorous (or attempted humor). The problem was that if someone made a sarcastic remark, a few readers would fail to get the joke, and each of them would post a lengthy diatribe in response. That would stir up more people with more responses, and soon the original thread of the discussion was buried. In at least one case, a humorous remark was interpreted by someone as a serious safety warning. This problem caused some of us to suggest (only half seriously) that maybe it would be a good to explicitly mark posts that were not to be taken seriously. After all, when using text-based online communication, we lack the body language or tone-of-voice cues that convey this information when we talk in person or on the phone. Various “joke markers” were suggested, and in the midst of that discussion it occurred to me that the character sequence :-) would be an elegant solution – one that could be handled by the ASCII-based computer terminals of the day. So I suggested that. In the same post, I also suggested the use of :-( to indicate that a message was meant to be taken seriously, though that symbol quickly evolved into a marker for displeasure, frustration, or anger. This convention caught on quickly around Carnegie Mellon, and soon spread to other universities and research labs via the primitive computer networks of the day. (Some CMU alumni who had moved on to other places continued to read our bboards as a way of keeping in touch with their old community.) Within a few months, we started seeing the lists with dozens of “smilies”: open-mouthed surprise, person wearing glasses, Abraham Lincoln, Santa Claus, the pope, and so on. Producing such clever compilations has become a serious hobby for some people. But only my two original smilies, plus the “winky” and the “noseless” variants seem to be in common use for actual communication. It’s interesting to note that Microsoft and AOL now intercept these character strings and turn them into little pictures. Personally, I think this destroys the whimsical element of the original. Unfortunately, I didn’t keep a copy of my original post. It didn’t seem like a big deal at the time. By the time I realized that this smiley-face phenomenon was going to be long-lasting and that it would spread around the world as the Internet grew, it was too late to easily retrieve the post, and the original message was lost for many years. Several attempts to find the post on old backup tapes were unsuccessful. But in 2001-2002 Mike Jones of Microsoft sponsored a more serious “archeological dig” through our ancient backup tapes. Jeff Baird and the CMU CS facilities staff put in a heroic effort with the support and encouragement of Howard Wactlar, Bob Cosgrove, and David Livingston. They found the proper tapes, located a working tape drive that could read the ancient media, decoded the old formats, and did a lot of searching to find the actual posts. I am most grateful to all who participated in this successful quest, which I call the “Digital Coelacanth Project.” So the message itself, and the thread that gave rise to it, are here. The exact date of the smiley’s birth can now be determined: 19 September, 1982. It was great to have this message back just in time for the 20th anniversary of the original post. As you can see, the note in which I suggested this thing was quite short and casual – just part of an ongoing discussion that involved many people. I apparently didn’t even read it over before posting, since a word or two were dropped in editing. I do remember writing a longer message in which I explained the need for a humor-marker in more detail, and suggested the :-) symbol, along with :-( to indicate anger or real unhappiness. But this longer message must have come later – perhaps a later bboard post or an E-mail message that I sent to someone. In any case, that more detailed post did not turn up in our search. Many people have denounced the very of the smiley face, pointing out that good writers should have no need to explicitly label their humorous comments. Shakespeare and Jonathan Swift and Mark Twain got along just fine without this. And by labeling the remarks that are not meant to be taken seriously, we spoil the joke. In satirical writing, half the fun is in never being quite sure whether the author is serious or not. To a large degree, I agree with these critics. Perhaps the E-mail smiley face has done more to degrade our written communication than to improve it. But in defense of the let me say two things: First, not all people who post on boards have the literary skill of Shakespeare or Twain, and even those luminaries had bad days. If Shakespeare were tossing off a quick note complaining about the lack of employee parking spaces near the Globe Theater, he might have produced the same kind of sloppy prose that the rest of us do. Besides, Shakespeare’s work is full of clichés and his spelling was atrocious. :-) Second, and more important, these authors were publishing their words in a different medium, with different properties. If 100,000 copies of a novel or an essay were distributed in printed form, and if 1% of the readers didn’t get the joke and were outraged at what they had read, there was nothing these clueless readers could do to spoil the enjoyment of the other 99%. But if it were possible for each of the 1000 clueless readers to write a lengthy counter-argument and to flood these into the same distribution channels as the original work, and if others could then jump into the fray in similar fashion, you can see the problems that this would cause. If the judicious use of a few smilies can reduce the frequency of such firestorms, then maybe it’s not such a bad after all. Again, we’re talking here about casual writing on the Internet, not great works printed in a one-way medium that is relatively inaccessible to the general public. One final point: I’ve seen various claims that the sideways smiley face, built from ASCII characters, was invented by someone else. I believe that I invented this particular glyph and the “turn your head to one side” principle independently. I don’t recall seeing anything like this before my 1982 post, though a few messages in the thread we just located come close. Leonard Hamey’s post suggesting (#) for humor might be taken as an example of “turn your head to one side” – it’s not really clear if that was his intent – and apparently \__/ was used by one of our research groups to indicate a smile. Some people have told me that the :-) or convention was used by teletype operators in the old days. Maybe so. Others have written to tell me that their father or uncle or they themselves used to type these symbols, or something close to them, in private letters (or, in one case, on punch cards) long before 1982. I haven’t (yet) seen any hard evidence of this, but I have no reason to doubt their accounts. It’s a simple and obvious after all, and the independent invention of this by multiple people would not be implausible. So, the smiley may have appeared and disappeared a few times before my 1982 post. I probably was not the first person ever to type these three letters in sequence, perhaps even with the meaning of “I’m just kidding” and perhaps even online. But I do believe that my 1982 suggestion was the one that finally took hold, spread around the world, and spawned thousands of variations. My colleagues and I have been able to watch the spread out through the world’s computer networks from that original post.

[Goldney]

Dammit guys. www.encyclopediadramatica.com Go research properly.

[Marvo]

Ban Goldney, he linked to ÆD.

[esfx]

Name of meme: "So, I herd u liek mudkips?" Notes: This originated because on a certain anime forum (I think it was 4Chan) people used to randomly post "So, I herd u liek mudkips?" and then post a really annoying mudkip video or picture, which varied. Eventually, it became so ever-present that it was rendered an "official" meme. Umm...This is the REAL mudkip meme: Today being Halloween, I decided to fuck with the major retard at school when I came out of science for break. He was dressed as Ash. Knowing this was going to happen, I brough a Mudkips doll. Thus I started the conversation, making sure no one saw me. "So I heard you like Mudkips..." "Mudkips? I LUUUUUUUUUUUUVE MUDKIPS." "O RLY? So, would you ever fuck a Mudkips, that is.." (he cuts me off before I could said 'if you were a mudkips') "OF COURSE." "Well I just happen to have a Mudkips here, and." Before I finished the sentence, which would have resulted in me hitting him across the face with the doll, he grabbed it. In one swift motion his pants were down and he was violenly humping it. Not to get between a man and his Mudkips I started to walk away, because there is no way I'd be caught wrestling a half-naked crazy guy humping a Mudkips. Needles to say, within 5 to 10 seconds, some girls saw him and started screaming. I cooly walked into a restroom, pretending nothing had ever happened; not that I had intended that outcome, but now that it was in play I didn't want to be involved. I came back two minutes later, and like any wanton act on school grounds there was now a huge crowd round him. He was still fucking it and baying this real fucked up 'EEEEEEEEEEINNNNF EEEEEEEEEEINNNF' sound. Suddenly a scuffle broke out in the middle, meaning he probably did something stupid. I asked someone what had happened. A girlfriend of one of the football players tried to get him to stop, but he bit her for trying to take it away. Someone called in a few football players (all dressed up like Road Warrior) who proceeded to pummel the shit out of the guy. Meanwhile the school police were freaking out and having trouble getting in to the situation. A few minutes later the intruder alarm went off and we were shuffled into classrooms. Over the intercom the principal announced that someone had thrown a flaming plush toy into the library. Uh.. what the hell. So we were kept there and about 30 minutes later the principal came on again. This time he was saying that whoever was behind the beating should turn themselves in. All of a sudden this woman began yelling "I WILL SUE YOU FOR DAMAGES. YOU LITTLE PUNKS, I'M GONNA SUE..." and it was cut off. I asked an office later what had happened. Apparently his mother had come to pick him up and threatened to sue for the beating and 'whatever else happened.' The school threatened to counter-sue because of lewd conduct, inciting a riot, and starting a fight. So I ask you: do you like Mudkips?

[[SomeGuy]]

I started a short-lived meme, ask Delphinus. I only stopped it because I lost the picture... lol. I posted a link to a picture of box art for Windows 3 or something every time I said "win".

[WakataDreamer]

I started a short-lived meme, ask Delphinus. I only stopped it because I lost the picture... lol. I posted a link to a picture of box art for Windows 3 or something every time I said "win". lol @esfx: yes, you are correct. I was wrong. It wasn't originally created on 4chan, just brought into "meme status" there. @Ynot: Good job, I nearly forgot about that one. I haven't been duckrolled in years. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name of meme: O RLY Owl Notes: ORLY stands for Oh Really and usually features a snowy owl with the caption “O RLY?” - this is often followed by a YA RLY response. It can frequently lead to a whole conversation using Internet slang. It was first seen as early as August 2003 on the Something Awful forums. The original image was taken by John White and posted to alt.binaries.pictures.animals in 2001. It became so popular that it even appears in a gameboy advance game. The caption itself is now often found on any photograph, not just photographs of owls. (copied n pasted cuz im too lazy too summarize)

[Sornaensis]

[Marvo]

Just delete this thread already, it's fucking shitty, only goes to show how much time you idiots spend on 4Chan.

[Grod]

LOl

[Invader]

LOl I know who you are BECAUSE I BACK-TRACED IT!

[Tyler]

LOl That's my favorite meme.

[slayer]

[Xei]

Quick curious question: are there any pictures of catgirls from behind which show how the hell the tail is actually connected to the body? Is it an extension of the spine? Does it come out of the... where the fuck does it come out of? Seriously it might as well be a kind of disembodied floating snake.

[slayer]

There are plenty pictures that show that. Most of them can't be shown on DV though :V It's just simple anatomy really.