Internet Memes in a Landscape

Is this how internet memes will be remembered in the future. I'm going to go with yes. (Based on Gherardo di Giovanni del Fora's Chaste Women in a Landscape, by Hillary White)



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The Internet Bible, FTW

Exile on Meme Street

Twenty-Nine Memes

LOLcat Taxonomy

LOLcats have, apparently, grown into their own species. T-shirt scientist Kari Fry breaks down the genus.

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I Can Has History

The Lolfather

Teh Lolcats Theme Song

So You Found Something Cool On The Internet...

Caldwell Tanner and Rosscott Inc. have created a handy interweb flowchart/PSA that I wholeheartedly agree with. Give credit where credit is due and if you do see who created it, to the Googles!

I hate when people just take people's work without even providing a link back. It's not cool. I'm looking at you, Tumblr! To those that do, "Fuck you, you're killed the internet!"

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The Geek Hierarchy

Action Movie Flowchart!

Go, Cobra!

Democracy In Action!

Well, Internet, I hope you're proud, because that Saturday Night Live episode was terrible and while Betty White was game it was a one-note horny old lady disaster. But Gary Coleman on Yo Gabba Gabba? Someone get on that. (Link via Chuck & Beans)

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Life Before Google
Whatchoo talkin' 'bout, Willis?
Betty White as Slave Leia Wielding a Flaming Chainsaw While Riding a John Ritter Centaur

What OMG Cat Has Seen Cannot Be Unseen

I'm pleased to see OMG Cat becoming a meme and I look forward to many more. I was getting sick of that Trolololo guy.

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Teh Lolcats Theme Song
I Can Has History?
Keyboard Cat: You Make My Dreams Come True

Life Before Google

I remember those days — it was a living hell and we didn't even know it. Bless Google, every megabit of it. (Chuck & Beans via BuzzFeed)

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Take Your Stinking Maps Off Me, You Damned Dirty Ape!
I Always Feel Like Google Is Watching Me
Pulp Fiction vs. Google Wave

Ben Folds' Chatroulette

Ben Folds: Ode to Merton
Ben Folds went on Chatroulette while onstage during a concert in Charlotte, North Carolina last night, eventually piano-serendaing a guy sitting on the can. As the video says: "There are dirty words... but we edited out the penises."

A guy named Merton has been doing the same recently, leading to much speculation that it was Folds. He denies it, though watching this certainly looks like it was Folds testing out the material before taking it on the road.

If the bizarre world of Chatroulette has passed you by, I wrote a explanatory piece for work. Though the best way to experience it is watching other people's videos: more funny, less dick. (Link via Nerdist)

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Teh Lolcats Theme Song
ROFLcoaster
The Internet Bible, FTW

Awkward Emoticon Family Photo

This would actually be very helpful, because you'd never have to wonder what someone was really thinking. Is there nothing the internet can't do? Get In Real Life by Marika Mattila and Benjamin Berg at Threadless.

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Emoti-Khaaaaaaaaaaans!
ROFLcoaster
The Internet Bible, FTW

ROFLcoaster

All aboard for Meme: The Ride.  I think there is still hope for me yet as I can only easily identify 12 of 16 off the top of my head. I need help and I don't mean in identifying the other four. (spaceghetto
via Urlesque)

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Keyboard Cat's Last Supper
The Internet Bible, FTW
The Lolfather

I Can Has History

This is only a small segment of I Can Has History, a ridiculously large LOLcats family tree and includes a couple of my faves, Invisible Sandwich Cat and Invisible Bike Cat. If you know some that are missing, you spend way to much time on the interweb, and I don't say that lightly. (Link via Urlesque)

Update: Seems the server is down or all the sites linking to it crashed it. I mean real sites, not me. I'll check every so often and send out on Twitter if/when it comes back.

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Teh Lolcats Theme Song
The LOLFathter
Hungry Cat Iz Eatin Yer Penshun

Go To Sleep, TTC...

On Thursday, OGLE, a rider on Toronto's transit system posted a photo of a ticket booth collector enjoying a deep snooze at work, then sent it out on Twitter. It then went viral. It showed up in my feed a few times that day, I laughed and passed it along. By the next morning it was all over the media, gracing front pages and websites.

The TTC sprung into damage control, vowing to investigate, while the ticket collector's union went the unusual route of blaming the photo taker: "It is very discouraging that the picture taker and, apparently, other customers, made no attempt to determine if there was anything wrong with this TTC employee," said Bob Kinnear, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union.

"A simple knock on the glass might have determined if the collector was, in fact, asleep, or whether he was unconscious as a result of some medical problem."

He's clearly not  dead, just enjoying a good nap. The interweb responded (above, via @boyreporter) and soon the now dubbed TTCSleeper started showing up everywhere...

Ahh, it's so nice that Homer finally found a compatible work buddy. Lenny and Carl are great, but they don't know how to relax. Sector 7G has never been in better hands. (Oswald Cobblepot! via Keadin)

                           

indigirl had another explanation for the incident — perhaps he wasn't snoozing, but just having his brain remapped. Is the TTC a Dollhouse?

Meanwhile JakenBear still wasn't sure that the ticket collector wasn't dead and cast a new Weekend at Bernies sequel. Yay.

The Death Star trash compactor? Wow, that guy can sleep though anything.

I'd never noticed the TTCSleeper in Edward Hopper's Nighthawks before, but he does fit in rather well.

And once there was a TTC Sleeper Last Supper this meme was in full force. From Hugh Elliott at wheniwas19. See more photoshops at Mondoville.

Beware of social media, folks, it can bite you in the ass. Funny too.

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Suddenly Last Supper
Breakfast Hawks
Teh Lolcats Theme Song

Retro Geek

I was all ready to get the grow-your-own Pterodactyls kit until I read the "Not for realz!" small print. So I'm going to get the The Official Ninja Academy Beginners Guide instead. I see that it is guaranteed. It will go well with my X-Ray Specs and Joy Buzzer. When Geek-ness Goes Retro... from Riccardo Bucchioni at Threadless.

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Spin Around, Ninjas!
Elements of Awesome
Extinct, Endangered, Resurrected

Rick Roll In A Bottle

I know, it's probably old (I couldn't find it on Cyanide and Happiness) and Rick Astley is so last decade, but it made me laugh and it's a meme kind of day for me. (Link via Tumblefrog)

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Kurt Cobain Is Rickrolling In His Grave
Konnichiwa, Dissected Domo
Keyboard Cat: You Make My Dreams Come True

The Internet Bible, FTW

The expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden, told in four simple panels. I don't know if I should be impressed or appalled that it made perfect sense to me.  The First Fail from cartoonist H. Caldwell Tanner. (Link via The Zeray Gazette)

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Keyboard Cat's Last Supper
All Your Viral Videos Are Belong To Us
Teh Lolcats Theme Song

The Lolfather

I can has offer you can't refuse? From designer jimiyo at TeeFury.

I know I've been posting a lot of tees recently, but they seem to be at the forefront of the kind of pop culture jokes I love. Sadly TeeFury only sells shirts for a 24-hour period, for some reason and I have no idea of they do reprints.

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The Frogfather
The Reinfather
Teh Lolcats Theme Song

Konnichiwa, Dissected Domo

Domo-kun is one of those strange marriages of Japanese and web culture... wait, I suppose I don't really need to add that qualifier as it really goes without saying. I had seem images of Domo all over the web before I actually knew what it was, a mascot for Japan's NHK television station that has become a harbinger of doom in his online incarnation. Know Your Meme can tell you all you need to know.

Anyway, long story short, master illustrator Jason Freeny has shown us all what Domo looks like inside, because we were all wondering but didn't know how to ask. It's the Internet, kids! You learn something you didn't need to know everyday.

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Gingerbread Man Dissected
Anatomy Of A Gummi Bear
Knitsections & Feltidermy

Emoti-Khaaaaaaaaaaans!

What, no emoticon for diabolically evil? I guess angry will have to do.
From artist Brock Davis on his Flickr site. (Link via Geekstir)

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Star Trek Knights Of The Round Table
M-M-M-M Make It So
Star Trek: Smells Like Certain Death

Two Girls, One-Up

If you don't know why this is funny, you are a lucky person. Don't look it up.
(From Shark Robot via Tcritic)

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Inglourious Plummers
First You Get The Money...
Super Mario Bros: Mario's Mass Grave

Hungry Cat Iz Eatin Yer Penshun

Read more and submit your own at the simply, and obviously named, LOL FAT CATS. Ya, take that bankers. No, wait, stop already!

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Teh Lolcats Theme Song
The Ennui of Henri
The Cat Came Back

Teh Lolcats Theme Song

Did the Lolcats need a theme song? Do we need lolcats? Silly question, needs got nothing to do with it! You will want to look away, but you won't be able to. How nobody thought to use The Cure's Lovecats before, I don't know. Robert Smith must be rolling in his grave.

From the twisted minds at rathergood.com. I would have used their embed, but autoplay of this song isn't something that anyone should be subjected to.

Link via Neatorama