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The Hitchhiker's Guide To Memes Pt.1: Introduction To The Meaning Of Meme & Time Tested Classics
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INTRODUCTION TO MEMES:
The word meme (pronounced meem) is a term coined by Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene. Originally used to describe packets of cultural information, it was adopted by the internet to describe viral lulz or frunz. Its original meaning is no longer used except by sociology majors. In short, memes are just inside jokes for people who have no friends with whom to have real inside jokes.
The word meme is commonly used by people who aren't retarded because it is in fact shorter to write the word "meme" than to write out "internet phenomena" or "something that will wind up on G4 tomorrow for all of the nerds to fap all over". It is well known that the only people that care about internet memes are sad f***s with no life. In the real world, the meme is known by its true name, "idea."
Sometimes bloggers refer to memes as a word game or short quiz taken and posted as comment bait. The more comments a user receives about their results the higher the chances are of that thing spreading.
You can bet your life that every meme you know hasn't been funny since about 20 seconds after its inception, which was approximately one billion years ago for all memes. This means you is dead crap and not cool because you weren't on the forum where "fail" was invented in 76 BC. Int4netzzFTWlykyea.
A Few Time Tested Classics:
All Your Base Are Belong To Us: All Your Base is one of the oldest of old memes that has literally been around for at least 100 Thursdays. In fact, it is so f***ing old that it has Life Alert. It is a culmination of the efforts of many websites and forums, including Something Awful and Fark. Japanese game company Toaplan created a space shooter entitled Zero Wing and SNK imported it into Europe with a ridiculously bad Engrish translation. Years later, the Internet found it and photoshopped various catchphrases from the intro onto everyday items. The meme is so ancient and powerful that it has spawned many smaller memes, which are now so ubiquitous that they are not even recognizable (i.e. "For great justice!"). It has also been turned into the pussy dance level of FlashFlashRevolution, a shitty rip-off of DDR using arrowkeys and the internetz. Great for fatties too lazy to just step on the arrows. Imagine the look on her face.
Do A Barrel Roll: At least 100 years ago the video game company Nintendo, well known for its open support of NAMBLA, made a game about furries in space. It turned out to be the source for much of the furry pr0n on th3 interwebs. For this Nintendo is considered un-1337 and has thousands of rabid fanboys, who make great lol-cow. During the game, one of the furry sex idols informs his gay lover to "do a barrel roll", something that is obviously a gay secks position. Nintendo put over 9,000 gay furry sex scenes in the game. None of which are plot related, rather appear whenever you destroy over 9,000 bad guys. Anyone who attempts to "do a barrel roll" is a total fag and enjoys buttsecks with a big glass of cum. Grandmas who are hyped up from too much sugar in their tea are recommended for 3x the rolling of barrels. The Barrel Roll meme has been so overused and abused, that it may be necessary to purge or destroy all references to it from the interweb, a la Fahrenheit 451, in order to keep the constant influx of newfags from raping it further. However, it's best used for fat people.
Desu: Desu (ã§ã™), (pronounced "dess" by the Japanese, "des-sue" when emphasized, or "dee-sue" by weeaboo newfags who don't know how to read) is a Japanese linking verb used in keigo, or polite language. In casual speech, speakers either drop it entirely or change it to its short form "da". Moar importantly, DESU is also a grammatical meme that gets spammed ALL THE f***ING TIME on the *chans by newfags, oldfags, and everyfags upon exposure to the /b/tarded brain like some kind of viral Tourette's Syndrome bug. After its introduction into lexicon of the Chanese people in 2006, prominent lulzologists quickly concluded that you can nevar have too much DESU and thus, everything needs moar DESU. It originated with a character in Rozen Maiden who would always end her sentences with DESU the emphatic form of desu. She often appears in image macros featuring one red eye and one green eye and a green dress. She has the habit of killing people with a watering-can. Her name in DESU the anime is Suiseiseki (soo-see-seh-SEK-kee), and she's a doll or some weird anime shit. The excessive use of a polite form of greeting is ironic because out of all the Rozen Maiden characters Suiseiseki is the most impolite to Jun, the human to whom they are attached. 4chanians forgot how to spell her name, and just referred to her as Desu. In reality, lots of characters use Desu excessively since it's shorthand for implying a character is a cutey. However, the point is moot as it didn't happen on the 4chan timeline and had not appeared in any anime 4chan was obsessing over theretoforth. Furthermore, desu is what this capitalist globalist Web 2.0 world gets for raising yet another generation of retards and dizzying them with blinking lights and empty phrases until they are so phased out they cannot even realize their own discord let alone produce a coherent sentence DESU~.
How Do I Shot Web?: "How do I shot web" is one of the internets' older memes. Although it is of questionable origin, many people believe it had been birthed from a g00n-only Natural Selection server on the Something Awful forums. However, some noobs argue that it originally came from an unfavorable review of Metal Gear Solid on a site similar to Amazon by a grammar-deficient 13-year-old boy, who complained that he could not use the gun, asking others "How do I shot gun?" in the process. Whether or not this is true is currently unknown, and the world may never know. What is known, however, is that the meme eventually traveled to the a**h**** of the internet where it became the subject of shitty shops and, in effect, unfunny image macros.
Some believe the following shit;
"The meme was created last thursday, during one of those awesome Spiderman games where it said "Press square to shot web" posing the question: "How do I shot web?". The answer is obviously press square, but 4chan haven't worked that out yet."
However, the meme existed before the Spiderman games, hence the community's general shock and joy at 'press square to shot web'. It is unknown who was confused by this.
"Shot web" can be replaced by any past tense verb-noun combination one desires; for example, "How do I ate myself to death?"
The proper response is ¯\(°_o)/¯.
Over 9000: IT'S OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAAAAAAND! or just Over 9,000 is an over-used meme that was started by the japanese anime show 'Dragonball Z', where characters would use scouters to detect power levels. This meme was cuntpasted many, many times and it's not funny anymore. Usage will only make you look like a weeaboo.
LOL WUT: On April Fools Day of 2007, community manager/forum moderator Tseric of the WoW forums pretended to be a full-blown forum troll. Almost every topic in the general forums got a short response from him simply saying, "lol wut." Since then, "lol wut" has become a catch phrase between WoWfags, and also as a test for marijuana intoxication. The original artist kindly requests that you thieving motherf***ers stop trying to sell the LOL WUT pear on t-shirts without at least giving her a cut. As of 02/06/08 the LOL WUT Pear has been recognized by the staff of DevianTART as one of the greatest works to have graced the site.
So i herd u liek mudkip: Mudkips (or axolotl to the sciency people who are doing things with their lives, unlike the readers reading) are an unrealistically cute Pokemon with a semi-less annoying catch phrase, and are ranked by God as the most kawaii things that ever didn't exist. They outrank desu, puppies, and even baby f***. Mudkip was the starter pokemon no one actually picked, but regardless, they are an internet meme. Spawned from a DeviantART comment inviting someone to their Pokémon group, the comment basically used the person's apparent affinity for Mudkips to perhaps entice the user to join their group. Whether or not said person actually joined is unknown. It eventually evolved into a very popular piece of copypasta on 4chan's /b/ telling a story about someone at a school asking "So i herd u liek Mudkips" to some retard who screams back "I LUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRVE MUDKIPS!" This resulted in the retard dry humping a Mudkips doll in the school hallways. Mudkipz aided Hitler in killing six million jews.
O RLY?: O rly? is an old meme from Something Awful, which eventually found its way to 4chan. While on SA, the only part of the meme was the phrase itself, but it soon spawned a bunch of image macros, with the most popular being the O RLY? owl. Recently, O RLY has spread to lj icons and the like. The O RLY? owl is a snowy owl image macro popular on the internets. It is also a password in Starcraft that lets you win the game if you can type it fast enough, but nobody gives a shit. (<-- O rly?)
Pedobear: Pedobear or also Pædobear aka Roy Harms (not to be confused with Medved (translated version) is one of the more famous and long running 4chan memes. He actually originated from 2channel (2ã¡ã‚ƒã‚“ãã‚‹, ni channeru, 2ch for short), Japanese Internet forum, where he was called Kuma (クマー), literally "Bear". Some argue the Japanese omitted the "Pedo-" prefix to avoid redundancy since most anything churned out in Japan is assumed to promote pedophilia. While Kuma was generally lecherous, Pedobear became the mascot for 4chan's legion of knuckle-dragging pedophiles, targeting prepubescent girls, or "loli". Like King Leonidas and each subsequent wave of Lolcats, Pedobear is the subject of many bad photoshoppings, usually pasted into whatever piece of child pornography b-tards get their filthy paws on. Pedobear has become so popular newfags and 12 year olds alike flock to /b/ under the impression that that they can find more "funny" Pedobear pictures. This is similar to the popularity brought on by the previously mentioned lolcats. Sadly some poorly informed Anonymous refer to him as Pedrobear believing that to be his real name.
Techno Viking: Techno Viking (an IRL toughguy) is the future ruler of the universe. Some people will try to tell you that he is a just a German shopkeeper named Hans Shlepkopper, but this is obviously a lie. His story begins in old viking times. Techno Viking was born to rave, however there was no techno music back then so he was preserved in ice and mead in what is now known as Germany for future generations to bring to life when music worthy of Techno Viking's awesomeness was invented (See also: Ecstasy). Srsly, win is rolling off of this guys f***ing face. Rumour has it that Techno Viking was developed in the 1940's in a nazi lab. He was project "Übersoldaat" Under the personal supervision of Goebbels he was created to search and DESTROY Chuck Norris Holy shit, this man is f***ing better than you are and he will eat your soul without a single goddamn word of warning. It is said that to have the finger of awesomeness pointed at you is to achieve nirvana and great justice will, in fact, be obtained. Studies show the only known way to control Techno Viking is to grab him by his magical neck charms and steer him towards more people to point at or pwnage. He will become roid-raged if any wimmins are bumped into. An offering of upside down water may be used to appease the righteous anger of Techno Viking, but there is no stopping the pwnage aura of the finger of awesomeness once unleashed. Experts advise stepping the f*** back.
Rickroll: First off, know that he's never gonna give you up, and never gonna let you down. That said, to Rickroll someone is to intentionally misdirect them to a video of "Never Gonna Give You Up" from one two-hit-wonder 80's pop icon Rick Astley. For Example "Information On how to Rick Roll Somebody". Basically, it's one of the lamest and most insincere songs ever, and we can tell the difference. So can Rick, because he has recently called the song "naff" (Britslang for 'lame, insincere, and cheesy') in several interviews about the meme. This concept of the Rickroll originated from the Duckroll troll and has the same intent of pissing off the sucker who falls for it after he or she is pwnt - for the 25th time. Linking to a video of "Never gonna give you up" or some variant thereupon has become the new Goatse, though after the The Power 5 being linked to a mildly popular song from the 80s really isn't that bad. Not to be confused with a Barrel Roll
You Are Doing It Wrong: Odds are that this is how you are doing it. USING ALL CAPS TO TALK ABOUT SOMETHING THAT IS FAIL IS ALSO DOING IT WRONG! Used to tell someone that they are doing something the wrong way. Some have also tried to use the phrase to denote an incorrect opinion or disagreement on an issue. Ironically, these people are doing it wrong. The wrong usually use Lateral thinking to avoid criticism.
PLEASE DIRECT ANY CRITICISM TO SAIZOU FOR REQUESTING THIS GUIDE
The word meme (pronounced meem) is a term coined by Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene. Originally used to describe packets of cultural information, it was adopted by the internet to describe viral lulz or frunz. Its original meaning is no longer used except by sociology majors. In short, memes are just inside jokes for people who have no friends with whom to have real inside jokes.
The word meme is commonly used by people who aren't retarded because it is in fact shorter to write the word "meme" than to write out "internet phenomena" or "something that will wind up on G4 tomorrow for all of the nerds to fap all over". It is well known that the only people that care about internet memes are sad f***s with no life. In the real world, the meme is known by its true name, "idea."
Sometimes bloggers refer to memes as a word game or short quiz taken and posted as comment bait. The more comments a user receives about their results the higher the chances are of that thing spreading.
You can bet your life that every meme you know hasn't been funny since about 20 seconds after its inception, which was approximately one billion years ago for all memes. This means you is dead crap and not cool because you weren't on the forum where "fail" was invented in 76 BC. Int4netzzFTWlykyea.
A Few Time Tested Classics:
All Your Base Are Belong To Us: All Your Base is one of the oldest of old memes that has literally been around for at least 100 Thursdays. In fact, it is so f***ing old that it has Life Alert. It is a culmination of the efforts of many websites and forums, including Something Awful and Fark. Japanese game company Toaplan created a space shooter entitled Zero Wing and SNK imported it into Europe with a ridiculously bad Engrish translation. Years later, the Internet found it and photoshopped various catchphrases from the intro onto everyday items. The meme is so ancient and powerful that it has spawned many smaller memes, which are now so ubiquitous that they are not even recognizable (i.e. "For great justice!"). It has also been turned into the pussy dance level of FlashFlashRevolution, a shitty rip-off of DDR using arrowkeys and the internetz. Great for fatties too lazy to just step on the arrows. Imagine the look on her face.
Do A Barrel Roll: At least 100 years ago the video game company Nintendo, well known for its open support of NAMBLA, made a game about furries in space. It turned out to be the source for much of the furry pr0n on th3 interwebs. For this Nintendo is considered un-1337 and has thousands of rabid fanboys, who make great lol-cow. During the game, one of the furry sex idols informs his gay lover to "do a barrel roll", something that is obviously a gay secks position. Nintendo put over 9,000 gay furry sex scenes in the game. None of which are plot related, rather appear whenever you destroy over 9,000 bad guys. Anyone who attempts to "do a barrel roll" is a total fag and enjoys buttsecks with a big glass of cum. Grandmas who are hyped up from too much sugar in their tea are recommended for 3x the rolling of barrels. The Barrel Roll meme has been so overused and abused, that it may be necessary to purge or destroy all references to it from the interweb, a la Fahrenheit 451, in order to keep the constant influx of newfags from raping it further. However, it's best used for fat people.
Desu: Desu (ã§ã™), (pronounced "dess" by the Japanese, "des-sue" when emphasized, or "dee-sue" by weeaboo newfags who don't know how to read) is a Japanese linking verb used in keigo, or polite language. In casual speech, speakers either drop it entirely or change it to its short form "da". Moar importantly, DESU is also a grammatical meme that gets spammed ALL THE f***ING TIME on the *chans by newfags, oldfags, and everyfags upon exposure to the /b/tarded brain like some kind of viral Tourette's Syndrome bug. After its introduction into lexicon of the Chanese people in 2006, prominent lulzologists quickly concluded that you can nevar have too much DESU and thus, everything needs moar DESU. It originated with a character in Rozen Maiden who would always end her sentences with DESU the emphatic form of desu. She often appears in image macros featuring one red eye and one green eye and a green dress. She has the habit of killing people with a watering-can. Her name in DESU the anime is Suiseiseki (soo-see-seh-SEK-kee), and she's a doll or some weird anime shit. The excessive use of a polite form of greeting is ironic because out of all the Rozen Maiden characters Suiseiseki is the most impolite to Jun, the human to whom they are attached. 4chanians forgot how to spell her name, and just referred to her as Desu. In reality, lots of characters use Desu excessively since it's shorthand for implying a character is a cutey. However, the point is moot as it didn't happen on the 4chan timeline and had not appeared in any anime 4chan was obsessing over theretoforth. Furthermore, desu is what this capitalist globalist Web 2.0 world gets for raising yet another generation of retards and dizzying them with blinking lights and empty phrases until they are so phased out they cannot even realize their own discord let alone produce a coherent sentence DESU~.
How Do I Shot Web?: "How do I shot web" is one of the internets' older memes. Although it is of questionable origin, many people believe it had been birthed from a g00n-only Natural Selection server on the Something Awful forums. However, some noobs argue that it originally came from an unfavorable review of Metal Gear Solid on a site similar to Amazon by a grammar-deficient 13-year-old boy, who complained that he could not use the gun, asking others "How do I shot gun?" in the process. Whether or not this is true is currently unknown, and the world may never know. What is known, however, is that the meme eventually traveled to the a**h**** of the internet where it became the subject of shitty shops and, in effect, unfunny image macros.
Some believe the following shit;
"The meme was created last thursday, during one of those awesome Spiderman games where it said "Press square to shot web" posing the question: "How do I shot web?". The answer is obviously press square, but 4chan haven't worked that out yet."
However, the meme existed before the Spiderman games, hence the community's general shock and joy at 'press square to shot web'. It is unknown who was confused by this.
"Shot web" can be replaced by any past tense verb-noun combination one desires; for example, "How do I ate myself to death?"
The proper response is ¯\(°_o)/¯.
Over 9000: IT'S OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAAAAAAND! or just Over 9,000 is an over-used meme that was started by the japanese anime show 'Dragonball Z', where characters would use scouters to detect power levels. This meme was cuntpasted many, many times and it's not funny anymore. Usage will only make you look like a weeaboo.
LOL WUT: On April Fools Day of 2007, community manager/forum moderator Tseric of the WoW forums pretended to be a full-blown forum troll. Almost every topic in the general forums got a short response from him simply saying, "lol wut." Since then, "lol wut" has become a catch phrase between WoWfags, and also as a test for marijuana intoxication. The original artist kindly requests that you thieving motherf***ers stop trying to sell the LOL WUT pear on t-shirts without at least giving her a cut. As of 02/06/08 the LOL WUT Pear has been recognized by the staff of DevianTART as one of the greatest works to have graced the site.
So i herd u liek mudkip: Mudkips (or axolotl to the sciency people who are doing things with their lives, unlike the readers reading) are an unrealistically cute Pokemon with a semi-less annoying catch phrase, and are ranked by God as the most kawaii things that ever didn't exist. They outrank desu, puppies, and even baby f***. Mudkip was the starter pokemon no one actually picked, but regardless, they are an internet meme. Spawned from a DeviantART comment inviting someone to their Pokémon group, the comment basically used the person's apparent affinity for Mudkips to perhaps entice the user to join their group. Whether or not said person actually joined is unknown. It eventually evolved into a very popular piece of copypasta on 4chan's /b/ telling a story about someone at a school asking "So i herd u liek Mudkips" to some retard who screams back "I LUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRVE MUDKIPS!" This resulted in the retard dry humping a Mudkips doll in the school hallways. Mudkipz aided Hitler in killing six million jews.
O RLY?: O rly? is an old meme from Something Awful, which eventually found its way to 4chan. While on SA, the only part of the meme was the phrase itself, but it soon spawned a bunch of image macros, with the most popular being the O RLY? owl. Recently, O RLY has spread to lj icons and the like. The O RLY? owl is a snowy owl image macro popular on the internets. It is also a password in Starcraft that lets you win the game if you can type it fast enough, but nobody gives a shit. (<-- O rly?)
Pedobear: Pedobear or also Pædobear aka Roy Harms (not to be confused with Medved (translated version) is one of the more famous and long running 4chan memes. He actually originated from 2channel (2ã¡ã‚ƒã‚“ãã‚‹, ni channeru, 2ch for short), Japanese Internet forum, where he was called Kuma (クマー), literally "Bear". Some argue the Japanese omitted the "Pedo-" prefix to avoid redundancy since most anything churned out in Japan is assumed to promote pedophilia. While Kuma was generally lecherous, Pedobear became the mascot for 4chan's legion of knuckle-dragging pedophiles, targeting prepubescent girls, or "loli". Like King Leonidas and each subsequent wave of Lolcats, Pedobear is the subject of many bad photoshoppings, usually pasted into whatever piece of child pornography b-tards get their filthy paws on. Pedobear has become so popular newfags and 12 year olds alike flock to /b/ under the impression that that they can find more "funny" Pedobear pictures. This is similar to the popularity brought on by the previously mentioned lolcats. Sadly some poorly informed Anonymous refer to him as Pedrobear believing that to be his real name.
Techno Viking: Techno Viking (an IRL toughguy) is the future ruler of the universe. Some people will try to tell you that he is a just a German shopkeeper named Hans Shlepkopper, but this is obviously a lie. His story begins in old viking times. Techno Viking was born to rave, however there was no techno music back then so he was preserved in ice and mead in what is now known as Germany for future generations to bring to life when music worthy of Techno Viking's awesomeness was invented (See also: Ecstasy). Srsly, win is rolling off of this guys f***ing face. Rumour has it that Techno Viking was developed in the 1940's in a nazi lab. He was project "Übersoldaat" Under the personal supervision of Goebbels he was created to search and DESTROY Chuck Norris Holy shit, this man is f***ing better than you are and he will eat your soul without a single goddamn word of warning. It is said that to have the finger of awesomeness pointed at you is to achieve nirvana and great justice will, in fact, be obtained. Studies show the only known way to control Techno Viking is to grab him by his magical neck charms and steer him towards more people to point at or pwnage. He will become roid-raged if any wimmins are bumped into. An offering of upside down water may be used to appease the righteous anger of Techno Viking, but there is no stopping the pwnage aura of the finger of awesomeness once unleashed. Experts advise stepping the f*** back.
Rickroll: First off, know that he's never gonna give you up, and never gonna let you down. That said, to Rickroll someone is to intentionally misdirect them to a video of "Never Gonna Give You Up" from one two-hit-wonder 80's pop icon Rick Astley. For Example "Information On how to Rick Roll Somebody". Basically, it's one of the lamest and most insincere songs ever, and we can tell the difference. So can Rick, because he has recently called the song "naff" (Britslang for 'lame, insincere, and cheesy') in several interviews about the meme. This concept of the Rickroll originated from the Duckroll troll and has the same intent of pissing off the sucker who falls for it after he or she is pwnt - for the 25th time. Linking to a video of "Never gonna give you up" or some variant thereupon has become the new Goatse, though after the The Power 5 being linked to a mildly popular song from the 80s really isn't that bad. Not to be confused with a Barrel Roll
You Are Doing It Wrong: Odds are that this is how you are doing it. USING ALL CAPS TO TALK ABOUT SOMETHING THAT IS FAIL IS ALSO DOING IT WRONG! Used to tell someone that they are doing something the wrong way. Some have also tried to use the phrase to denote an incorrect opinion or disagreement on an issue. Ironically, these people are doing it wrong. The wrong usually use Lateral thinking to avoid criticism.
PLEASE DIRECT ANY CRITICISM TO SAIZOU FOR REQUESTING THIS GUIDE
