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All of these memes evolved into viral jokes through any combination of pausing a TV show at the right moment or annoying a fanbase a little too much, and each of them has a very unique story worth remembering next time you laugh at one of these memes. So, let's dive into the some of the most iconic memes with great backstories.
- 2010 Meme Spotlight: Rage Comics
- 2011 Meme Spotlight: Scumbag Steve
- 2012 Meme Spotlight: Gangnam Style
- 2013 Meme Spotlight: Side-Eyeing Chloe
- 2014 Meme Spotlight: The Ice Bucket Challenge
- 2015 Meme Spotlight: Unexpected John Cena
- 2016 Meme Spotlight: We Are Number One
- 2017 Meme Spotlight: Mocking Spongebob
- 2018 Meme Spotlight: Big Chungus
- 2019 Meme Spotlight: Woman Yelling at Cat
Rage Comics are probably the most iconic type of meme from the early eras. They are an ensemble of faces in a stock comic strip format, free to exploit and adapt by anyone. The faces are sort of like stock characters — archetypes like the "dumb husband" and "loose cannon cop" that are deployed by TV writers just like how Yao Ming Face and le Mewere...
Scumbag Steve, whose real name is Blake Boston, is an iconic Advice Animal meme that debuted on Reddit in January 2011. He swept onto the scene at seemingly the perfect time. In 2011, Google search interest in Advice Animalspeaked, and Scumbag Steve notably participated in that trend. Like Rage Comics, Advice Animals were a cast of characters that ...
Gangnam Styleexploded like a bomb across the cultural scene of 2012. At a time when YouTube dominated meme origins and the internet was just starting to drive the cultural conversation, PSY and his collaborators leaned heavily into an absurdist video with an uncannily compelling dance move at its center. Clocking in at almost 4.5 billion views, the...
A meme that might represent 2013 is Side-Eyeing Chloe, an image of a little girl reacting disdainfully to her sister's tearful response to a promised Disneyland trip. Perhaps presaging the internet's later fascination with Disney Adults,Chloe's reaction to her sister's tears of joy was seen as highly relatable. The images come from a YouTube video ...
If you were in the U.S. in 2014, odds are that you (or somebody you knew) dumped a bucket of ice water on your head and filmed it for social media. The Ice Bucket Challenge social game and internet challengebegan among professional athletes who got on the bandwagon in June 2014 on Instagram and particularly YouTube. The rules of the challenge were ...
One memeing maneuver that never seems to get old is the bait-and-switch. Just like in the days when friends might prank each other with mysterious links in emails or IMs that would then lead to a Rickrollor an explicit website, we still love to trick the clicks of unsuspecting people. Perhaps nothing was more expectably unexpected in 2015 than Unex...
We Are Number One is a viral video based on a clip from an Icelandic children's television show called LazyTown, which inspired a slew of memes. The loud, outlandish characters and lyrics led many to ironically embrace and appreciate it as adult entertainment. In a pattern frequently seen before and since — what began as an ironic and detached appr...
In 2017, we saw the popularization of a variety of SpongeBob SquarePants images and reactions on Twitter. Often, SpongeBob memes came from well-known episodes of the classic show, some of them from as far as two decades back. On May 4th, 2017, a Twitter user posted the first recorded instance of the Mocking SpongeBobformat, representing themselves ...
Perhaps no meme represents the 2018 status of the meme ecosystem better than Big Chungus,which emerged synergistically from several platforms. The original image of a hefty Bugs Bunny started spreading on 4chan in non sequitur contexts. Screenshots of 4chan threads featuring the character were then popularized on Imgur, Reddit and Facebook. The fir...
If the late 2010s are remembered for anything, it may be as the golden age of object-labelingmemes. Formats that use images to represent the relationships between ideas, people and feelings became a kind of internet hieroglyphics, communicating pretty sophisticated thoughts, jokes and positions in a very small space. Woman Yelling At A Cat, like Bi...
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Mar 20, 2024 · The term "meme," derived from the Greek word "mimema" meaning "something imitated," was coined by evolutionary biologist and author Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which focuses on the importance of self-replication in natural selection.
Mar 13, 2019 · chuck norris ufc. A concept imagined from an unlikely source, memes have emerged as one of the primary methods of communication on the internet. Whether they’re being shared by your favorite ...
The term "meme" was first used back in 1976. Coined by British evolutionary biologist and author Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene, Dawkins, when searching for a word to describe the concept of the transmission of an idea, blended the Greek word "mimeme" – meaning something that is imitated – with gene.
Apr 26, 2019 · Where do memes come from? Why do some memes become popular? This video looks at the evolution and history of memes.
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