What used to be an amusing byproduct of Internet use has mutated into something horrible: an insatiable parasite that impairs its host’s judgment, rendering it totally useless. Instead of acting as an organic cultural touchstone, the modern meme — from LOL, which hasn’t been used to signify physical laughter since 1997, to Lolcats — now sucks the joy out of our interconnectedness. It destroys uniqueness. Once an “enjoyable thing” becomes a “meme,” we stop enjoying the thing for its own sake, but consume and regurgitate our enjoyment of it as a symbol of hipness, as if to say: “I am aware of this thing’s popularity — therefore I, too, exist!
↓ 11 May 2010
Remember, the currency of the internet economy is attention, not dollars.
—(via 8226)
↓ 9 Jan 2010
↓ 19 Oct 2009
![blondesnotbombs:
This is pretty amazing.
jeannejo:thedailywhat:
Jennifer Bennett: Internet Meme / Viral Video Embroidery.
Bennett (aka Kittyzilla) is planning to stitch the individual pieces together to form the best family heritage quilt ever.
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This is pretty amazing.
Jennifer Bennett: Internet Meme / Viral Video Embroidery.
Bennett (aka Kittyzilla) is planning to stitch the individual pieces together to form the best family heritage quilt ever.
[via.]
↓ 17 Jun 2009
Meme scenery
Andy Baio deleted the subjects from famous internet memes, leaving just the backgrounds. The results are hazy, ugly, and beautiful all at once, like last night’s hookup after a night of hard drinking.
via Kottke
↓ 15 Jun 2009
next to oslo coffee
↓ 1 Jun 2009
Submitted by Nick S.
↓ 28 May 2009
And Then There's This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture - Bill Wasik - Very Short List
Meme weavers
↓ 26 May 2009
Yo dawg, I heard you like Xzibit memes, so I made a video explaining them so you can learn while you LOL.
↓ 21 May 2009
James Nord makes/perpetuates memes left and right.
gpoyw- inspired by the photographer’s own gpoyw editionGPOYLW is already catching on.
↓ 20 May 2009
