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Feb 15, 2013#1

Yoshimickster

Where we discuss internet memes and how funny or annoying they are.

I was thinking of posting this video in the awesome/funny videos thread but its not really that awesome, and not that funny.

....what the fuck was that? Just...shaking around...in Power Rangers costumes. This is a internet meme now, it is part of our pop-culture! I just find it odd how someone can do so little effort and become so huge.

Feb 15, 2013#2

Gusto

What is the origin of DO YOU EVEN LIFT?

Feb 15, 2013#3

LittleKagsin

My personal favorite is quoting mean girls to anything. I don't know why, but that one never gets old to me. And is still funny to me this day, especially anything with 'your mom's chest hair'. Heh..even now, I laugh.
'Get in loser, we're going shopping.'
'On Wednesdays we wear pink.'
'YOU CAN'T SIT WITH US!'
*Jingle Bell Rock Dance*
'So fetch!'
'One time ____ punched me in the face, it was awesome.'
'Does she even go here?'
'You go Glen Coco.'

Gusto said:
What is the origin of DO YOU EVEN LIFT?

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/do-you-even-lift

Feb 15, 2013#4

Yoshimickster

It is both annoying to me, and AMAZING how something as small as a work-out related forum post can turn into the next world wide meme. Who knows what will be the next meme? One of us could say something that we would think is completely inconsequential, and the next thing we now that phrase is under the picture of a camel! Why a camel? Because internet.

My personal favorite meme would have to be either Guile's theme goes with everything:

Or-

Oh Futurama, you are just constant meme potential aren't you?

Feb 15, 2013#5

sixpackshaker

I saw a bunch of Norwiegan soldiers doing the Harlem Shake... I laughed pretty hard.

Feb 15, 2013#6

GasBandit

... choose... a favorite meme? That's... I can't... sophie's choice... enrgh..

Feb 15, 2013#7

ThatNickGuy

If Psy ever does the Harlem Shake, my brain will explode.

Feb 15, 2013#8

Bowielee

Feb 15, 2013#9

CynicismKills

Gusto said:
What is the origin of DO YOU EVEN LIFT?

My guess is either /fit/ on 4chan, or on that weird bodybuilding forum that I think is also a sublet of 4chan.

Feb 15, 2013#10

GasBandit

ThatNickGuy said:
If Psy ever does the Harlem Shuffle, my brain will explode.

Did you mean Harlem Shake? Harlem Shuffle is something else entirely.

Feb 15, 2013#11

ThatNickGuy

Psh. I said "shake," GasBandit. See right up there? It says Shake. Sheesh, going and doing one of those "FTFW" posts just to make me look bad, like I didn't even know because it was totally in the very first post and all. Only an idiot would get it wrong like that.

Feb 16, 2013#12

phil

The weird thing about the Harlem shake is that the original doesn't follow any of the "rules" of the subsequent ones. And so many sprang up in a matter of days! I don't get it, but I can't look away either.

Feb 16, 2013#13

Bowielee

Yeah, it's one of those things you can't really explain.

Feb 16, 2013#14

Just Me

Bowielee said:
Yeah, it's one of those things you can't really explain.

Like Memes in general?

Feb 16, 2013#15

Bowielee

Many memes, I understand why their entertaining/funny, but this one? No clue.

This and Gersbermps.

Feb 16, 2013#16

ThatNickGuy

Bowielee said:
Many memes, I understand why their entertaining/funny, but this one? No clue.

This and Gersbermps.

Ermagerd, Bewerlee, I lerve Gersbermps!

Feb 16, 2013#17

CynicismKills

The only Harlem Shake I thought was funny.

Feb 16, 2013#18

Yoshimickster

Most of the parodies of Harlem Shake are more impressive as far as videos go than the original which I find weird. I can get why Gangnam style is popular, thats a well produced video. Harlem Shake is...just a bunch of guys in costumes wiggling.

Feb 19, 2013#19

LordRendar

This Harlem Shake killed me.

Feb 19, 2013#20

figmentPez

This one is pretty inventive:
http://hsmaker.com/harlemshake.asp?url=http://www.wikipedia.org/

Feb 19, 2013#21

Yoshimickster

Satan damn, its up to alternate web-page level now? HOW THE HELL IS THIS SO POPULAR?!

Feb 20, 2013#22

Ravenpoe

Yoshimickster said:
Satan damn, its up to alternate web-page level now? HOW THE HELL IS THIS SO POPULAR?!

Wait until you see today's Penny Arcade http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic

Feb 20, 2013#23

Covar

DO THE HALRLEM SHAKE!!!

Feb 20, 2013#24

Cheesy1

Now Gabriel Iglesias is getting in on the act, with the help of Rowdy Roddy Piper and The Iron Sheik:

Feb 21, 2013#25

Bubble181

I've so far completely avoided the Harlem Shake, and being at work, I can't see any of those videos, either. Woe is me

the meme I probably find most annyoing is the "ermagerd" and whatever one. It's....it doesn't make sense. It doesn't sound like that. it's not a funny pronounciation. It's not some dialect. It's just...random badly-pronounced, bad-sounding english. Blergh.

Feb 21, 2013#26

Bowielee

Bubble181 said:
the meme I probably find most annyoing is the "ermagerd" and whatever one. It's....it doesn't make sense. It doesn't sound like that. it's not a funny pronounciation. It's not some dialect. It's just...random badly-pronounced, bad-sounding english. Blergh.

You shut your filthy mouth

Feb 21, 2013#27

sixpackshaker

Bubble181 said:
I've so far completely avoided the Harlem Shake, and being at work, I can't see any of those videos, either. Woe is me

the meme I probably find most annyoing is the "ermagerd" and whatever one. It's....it doesn't make sense. It doesn't sound like that. it's not a funny pronounciation. It's not some dialect. It's just...random badly-pronounced, bad-sounding english. Blergh.

I guess you never talked to anyone from South Texas. They drop R's where they don't belong all the time. I can't spell any of the words my Dad taught me.

Feb 21, 2013#28

Gilgamesh

Bubble181 said:
I've so far completely avoided the Harlem Shake, and being at work, I can't see any of those videos, either. Woe is me

the meme I probably find most annyoing is the "ermagerd" and whatever one. It's....it doesn't make sense. It doesn't sound like that. it's not a funny pronounciation. It's not some dialect. It's just...random badly-pronounced, bad-sounding english. Blergh.

It originated from a picture of a teenage girl wearing braces. The sounds/mispellings are from her trying to speak with the braces on.

Feb 21, 2013#29

sixpackshaker

all your base belong to us

Feb 21, 2013#30

Yoshimickster

sixpackshaker said:
all your base belong to us

Feb 21, 2013#31

GasBandit

Feb 25, 2013#32

figmentPez

I just had to appropriate the "We are Destroying the Planet" meme.

Earth Satellite Images 1975 to Present.png

Feb 26, 2013#33

ThatNickGuy

One meme I'm so sick of is Candlejack. It's so stu

Feb 26, 2013#34

bhamv3

ThatNickGuy said:
One meme I'm so sick of is Candlejack. It's so stu

Does it work if I just quote the name, instead of typing it mysel

Feb 26, 2013#35

Yoshimickster

Frickin' Candlejack owes me ten bu

Feb 26, 2013#36

ThatNickGuy

I wonder what would happen if Candlejack teamed up with ALL GLORY TO THE HYP

Feb 26, 2013#37

figmentPez

Someone is going to need more rope.

Feb 26, 2013#38

CynicismKills

At least he's been nice enough to hit submit for everyone while he's off chartering that bus.

Mar 1, 2013#39

sixpackshaker

The Federal Government wanted to add Chuck Norris's face to Mount Rushmore... But the granite was too soft to represent his beard.

Mar 1, 2013#40

Covar

http://yourethemannowdog.ytmnd.com/

Mar 1, 2013#41

GasBandit

You wanna talk old school memes? Check it - anybody remember "_____ ate my balls?"

Mar 1, 2013#42

ThatNickGuy

Mar 1, 2013#43

Bowielee

GasBandit said:
You wanna talk old school memes? Check it - anybody remember "_____ ate my balls?"

Mr. T ate my balls!

Now that's old school!

Mar 1, 2013#44

Yoshimickster

MAY THIS SONG HAUNT YOUR NIGHTMARES!

Mar 2, 2013#45

bhamv3

ThatNickGuy said:

There, but for the grace of God, go I.

Mar 2, 2013#46

Just Me

bhamv3 said:
There, but for the grace of God, go I.

I actually killed a light bulb (luckily not the lamp) doing a similar stunt...
But I wasn't stupid/vain enough to film it.
And there was no internet back in 1985.

Mar 2, 2013#47

strawman

Just Me said:
And there was no internet back in 1985.

Ha! You wish.

The internet is older than half the users on this forum.

Mar 2, 2013#48

Yoshimickster

Yeah it started in the 1969. 69....like they knew even back then this would be used only for pron.

Mar 2, 2013#49

LordRendar

You really underestimate the lenght a man will go through to watch porn.

Mar 2, 2013#50

Bowielee

stienman said:
Ha! You wish.

The internet is older than half the users on this forum.

It would be more accurate to say there was no internet as we currently know it in 1985.
BBS didn't really show up till the late 80s. If we include Darpanet and the like, we could technically say the internet started the first time two computers were networked together.

Mar 2, 2013#51

strawman

Sure, the first web page using the http protocol was available in 1990. Before that there was gopher and email.

Mar 2, 2013#52

Just Me

stienman said:
Ha! You wish.

The internet is older than half the users on this forum.

I know that the internet is not really new tech, I really meant the public internet. You know the one helping people to make themselves look like idiots to the whole world.
No offense taken though.

Mar 2, 2013#53

strawman

See, I've never needed the internet to make myself look like an idiot!

...but it's one heck of a force multiplier in that respect.

Mar 2, 2013#54

Just Me

stienman said:
See, I've never needed the internet to make myself look like an idiot!

...but it's one heck of a force multiplier in that respect.

Internet, makes you look twice the fool in only half the time!

I have no problem making myself look like an idiot, too. Sometimes (often) even with intent.
But not, and never, to the whole world, only for friends and people I know. And not in front of cameras of any kind.

Mar 2, 2013#55

Yoshimickster

I look stupid all the time! Mostly due to my whack-memory, where I either remember something perfectly(most of the time something pointless) or forget it completely(most of the time something important). I WILL master you brain- I WILL!

Mar 2, 2013#56

Bowielee

Yoshi, I picture your brain like a bouncy castle full of hyperactive 5 year olds.

Mar 2, 2013#57

Yoshimickster

Bowielee said:
Yoshi, I picture your brain like a bouncy castle full of hyperactive 5 year olds.

I picture it as one of those levels from Psychonauts, with random objects floating around that reflect my shattered psyche! And doors float in space, that go to rooms full of things no-one was meant to see.

Mar 2, 2013#58

ThatNickGuy

Yoshimickster said:
things no-one was meant to see.

Roseanne Barr in speedos?

Mar 3, 2013#59

Cheesy1

Kathy Bates naked in a hot tub? :Leyla:

Mar 3, 2013#60

Just Me

Bowielee said:
Yoshi, I picture your brain like a bouncy castle full of hyperactive 5 year olds.

Nine voices in my head agree, and the 10th sings La Bamba.
Thats how i feel most of the time, sometimes with more of the voices singing and not all of them the same song...

Mar 3, 2013#61

Yoshimickster

Does anyone ever wonder how they'd feel if a random photo of them became a meme? I'd feel a mix of pride and weirdedoutness.

Mar 3, 2013#62

bhamv3

Depends on what it's for.

"Sex god Asian guy"? That'd be awesome.

"Sex predator Asian guy"? Slightly less awesome... but I'll still take it.

Mar 3, 2013#63

Yoshimickster

I'm hoping I'll become some sort of anarchist meme. Those of you who have seen my picture, know the joke.

Mar 7, 2013#64

Bowielee

back to ancient memes!

Mar 7, 2013#65

GasBandit

How about a pre-internet meme?

Mar 7, 2013#66

Bowielee

GasBandit said:
How about a pre-internet meme?

Mar 7, 2013#67

ThatNickGuy

Mar 7, 2013#68

Yoshimickster

That donut commercial was creepier than I thought it would be.

Anyone ever see one of these in person? I haven't.

Mar 8, 2013#69

Ravenpoe

Yoshimickster said:
That donut commercial was creepier than I thought it would be.

Anyone ever see one of these in person? I haven't.

I have.

Mar 8, 2013#70

twitchmoss

WE ARE HERE TO PROTECT YOU.
WE ARE HERE TO PROTECT YOU FROM THE TERRIBLE SECRET OF SPACE.
PAK. CHOOIE UNF.

Mar 8, 2013#71

sixpackshaker

Yoshimickster said:
That donut commercial was creepier than I thought it would be.

Anyone ever see one of these in person? I haven't.

At the Yalta Conference towards the end of WWII, everything was super secure. There were even secured out houses made for the dignitaries Churchill, Roosevelt and Uncle Joe Stalin. Upon leaving the outhouse for the first time Stalin asked the guard "Who is this Kilroy?"

Mar 8, 2013#72

ThatNickGuy

Mar 8, 2013#73

figmentPez

Can anyone explain to me the current meme going around Tumblr of... well, I'm not sure how to describe it, but it's common phrases or quotes with some words replaced, like misheard phrases.
Example 1
Example 2

Mar 8, 2013#74

GasBandit

figmentPez said:
Can anyone explain to me the current meme going around Tumblr of... well, I'm not sure how to describe it, but it's common phrases or quotes with some words replaced, like misheard phrases.
Example 1
Example 2

Tumblr users are brain damaged, just figured out how to mondegreen. It's like puppy day in the special ed portable.

Mar 8, 2013#75

Yoshimickster

Than there's that "When does the Narwhal bacon" meme. It sounds like a rejected Monty Python line.

Mar 8, 2013#76

GasBandit

I think the "man from nantucket" limerick may have been one of the first memes.

Mar 8, 2013#77

Ravenpoe

GasBandit said:
I think the "man from nantucket" limerick may have been one of the first memes.

That's one of those things that's so known, to the point that it never has to be finished, that I was 22 before I ever knew what the fuck it meant.

Mar 8, 2013#78

GasBandit

Ravenpoe said:
That's one of those things that's so known, to the point that it never has to be finished, that I was 22 before I ever knew what the fuck it meant.

Really? Not even in, like, second grade? Where I heard it in its entirety for the first time?

Mar 11, 2013#79

CynicismKills

Yoshimickster said:
Than there's that "When does the Narwhal bacon" meme. It sounds like a rejected Monty Python line.

It's some stupid thing reddit users came up with to shout at each other like idiots in public in order to recognize each other.

Mar 11, 2013#80

Bowielee

Mar 11, 2013#81

CynicismKills

God I love everything about the fake GI Joe PSAs.

Mar 11, 2013#82

Bowielee

BODY MASSAGE! :thumbsup:

Mar 11, 2013#83

GasBandit

PORK CHOP SANDWICHES!

Mar 11, 2013#84

Gusto

I'MA COMPUTAH

Mar 12, 2013#85

GasBandit

I don't WaaaAAaaaAaoooooont a pickle. Ah just wanna ride my mooooooooohhhhtor-sickle.

Mar 19, 2013#86

figmentPez

You know how slang suddenly stops being cool when your parents start using it? Well, I think the Harlem Shake is officially past it's prime now that the British Royal Family has done it.

Mar 19, 2013#87

strawman

figmentPez said:
You know how slang suddenly stops being cool when your parents start using it? Well, I think the Harlem Shake is officially past it's prime now that the British Royal Family has done it.

Man, if only that worked all the time.

"I hate this dance meme. Can we have it removed from the Internet?"

"No, mum. But we can make it ... Distasteful, which should quite neatly stop it. Shall I make arrangements?"

"Please do, the sooner, the better!"

"Yes, mum, right away, mum."

Mar 19, 2013#88

bhamv3

stienman said:
Man, if only that worked all the time.

"I hate this dance meme. Can we have it removed from the Internet?"

"No, mum. But we can make it ... Distasteful, which should quite neatly stop it. Shall I make arrangements?"

"Please do, the sooner, the better!"

"Yes, mum, right away, mum."

And now I'm picturing Prince Charles doing Gangnam Style.

Mar 20, 2013#89

Bowielee

bhamv3 said:
And now I'm picturing Prince Charles doing Gangnam Style.

Mar 20, 2013#90

sixpackshaker

That has to be the best group of impersonators, ever.

Apr 1, 2013#91

Yoshimickster

"Milhouse is not a meme".

I think I remember when this became a meme actually, that was a fun day.

Apr 2, 2013#92

GasBandit

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