An internet meme (pronounced MEEM) is a video, saying, picture (anything really) on the internet that explodes in popularity in a short period of time. Think viral. They become the most viewed things on the internet of all time. The big ones often leak into the real mainstream media.
There are links to the memes in the post on my site, if you want to view them. But here are short descriptions of the memes I referred to in this forum:
All Your Base Are Belong To Us
One of the first real big internet memes, brought on by an engrish game called Zero Wing and remixed into a song.
Star Wars Kid
A kid video taped himself swinging a golfball retriever like a lightsaber. The most viewed video
ever, even more so than Paris Hilton's private tape.
Phillipine Prisoners
Dressed in prisoner orange, they collectively did the Thriller dance
Dramatic Look
On a Japanese game show, the camera zoomed in on a prairie dog just as it turned and looked straight at the camera. It's creepy.
And like, such as... for the children
This is from Miss Teen USA when Miss South Carolina described why kids can't find countries on maps.
Numa Numa
A guy video taped himself lipsyncing a german song.
Leeroy Jenkins
A video recording of a group of players playing World of Warcraft, where one ruins everyone elses hard work. Later it was found that it was staged.
These are some of the most viewed videos of all time.
The post was supposed to be tongue-in-cheek while explaining how you can cash in on memes. Where I went wrong was assuming that domainers, being internet geeks, would know memes. I'm quite shocked :P Please someone stand up and say my post made perfect sense hehe.
Other memes you may have heard of:
- Don't tase me bro
- Bus Uncle
- Evolution of Dance
- Diet Coke + Mentos
- Chuck Norris facts
- This is Sparta!
- Battle at Kruger
- Angry German Kid
- Bert is Evil
- Tourist of Death
- ATHF guerilla marketing
- Fail
- DO NOT WANT
