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Crazy Internet Memes
Topic Started: Mar 30 2007, 08:48 AM (387 Views)
Ryo Misaki
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(Copied from the Love Hina forums: )

To lazily quote Wikipedia:

The term "meme" (IPA: /miːm/, rhyming with "theme"), coined in 1976[1] by the biologist Richard Dawkins, refers to a "unit of cultural information" which can propagate from one mind to another in a manner analogous to genes (i.e., the units of genetic information).

Dawkins gave as examples of memes: tunes, catch-phrases, beliefs, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches. A meme, he said, propagates itself as a unit of cultural evolution and diffusion analogous in many ways to the behavior of the gene. Often memes propagate as more-or-less integrated cooperative sets or groups, referred to as memeplexes or meme-complexes.

The idea of memes has proved a successful meme in its own right, gaining a degree of penetration into popular culture which relatively few modern scientific theories achieve.

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Every once and a while... A video will spread across the internet, gaining such massive popularity, that it is practically known by everybody. Even, sometimes, to the point of being parodied in famous shows like Family Guy. =P

Usually just a short fad... But sometimes becoming something people remember for a long time.

So, here's a list of fun Memes we've collected.

This first group is actually all based on things from the English dub of DBZ. (Slade, you should enjoy these... xD)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBtpyeLxVkI - NINE THOUSAAANNND!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbSjKjjObLg&NR - I hope my body can take it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cS18yG8DJI&NR - The balls are inert.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnPN2yOup9E&NR - The whole universe is going to die!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd2kFtJHp0s&NR



Watashi ga Pizza de wa nai!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cdIx-tWFug&NR

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL! *spooge* (Yay for Death Note. xD)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWTlJjQjoXY

Not quite a meme...but...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehE9WtowrUk&NR

The Pylons are Trap Balls! (ITG Version)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02LMXO3Twcw&NR

Not a DDR fan? How about a GH2 version!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Scc0rq3Khc&NR


GH Toys!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs0v5-tMNp8&NR

http://youtube.com/watch?v=RqvFOEtLgQ8



Stupid Zelda CDI stuff that's awsome
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3o3xc9yyEA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-RDa2y_Zb4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au9Rb38V6q8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMHTXbFV4LY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bByvooF31oU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_Mdk91F1hU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMocYsK79DE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiRAlNycmww



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsNIUHkwC-s (Nooooooo!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dRkPkumN00 (NOOOO!)
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And since my post to this thread was so awesome... It deserves a second post all together. xD

Well... after finally looking through these, and laughing my ass off...

It's time for ME to contribute.

Now here are some REAL Internet Memes!

The Bus Uncle
Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSHziqJWYcM
Info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bus_Uncle

Incident in Hong Kong where an old guy gets on a bus, and completely chews out a kid for no reason. =P


Starwars Kid
Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPPj6viIBmU
Info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_kid

You REALLY dont know Memes if you dont know about the Starwars kid!
Worse yet... The guy kinda looks like myself... This is what I would do, had I no common sense whatsoever.


Chuck Norris Facts
Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8k3uGzgZIs
Info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Norris_facts
Funny - http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Norris

We ALL know the infamous Chuck Norris jokes. Hell, there was a thread about it on the forums before the crash!
Now here's a video of Chuck Norris READING Chuck Norris jokes. Hillarious!


All Your Base Are Belong To Us
Original Video - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...seAnimated.gif
Music Video - http://rmitz.org/AYB3.swf
Info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_You...e_Belong_To_Us

In AD 2101... War was Beginning...
Who DOESNT know about this? Greatest game mistranslation EVER! Became an instant classic on the internet, as PhotoShopped images of All Your Base spread the internet like WILDFIRE. FOR GREAT JUSTICE!


Numa Numa Dance
Original Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60og9gwKh1o
Info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numa_Numa

This is what happens when a really bored guy gets ahold of a Web Cam, and REALLY likes a song.
He's singing to the song "Dragosta Din Tei" by O-Zone. Great song... But this guy makes it wonderous. His facial expressions are HILLARIOUS!
This has been parodied countless times, much like the Starwars Kid.


Crazy Frog
Original Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkHm8uUuT0o
Info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Frog

What started off as a stupid animation and sound for a ghey little Cellphone site turned into the biggest fad ever.
Strangely enough... It's catchy. In the worst way possible. T__T


Dancing Baby
Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKpQkDZv-UI
Info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_baby

It started with a video... Set to the song "Hooked on a Feeling" by Blue Swede (Yeah... that "Ooga Chaka" song. ) in the early 90'.
One of the first huge internet fads I can remember. O_o


Little Fatty
Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BKxOCPjAnU

A poor Chinese High School Student named Qian Zhijun had a picture of himself in Band... Some dude loved his face, and Photoshopped tons of images with his likeness.
A thread of this was once posted by Zhang on here... I'll have to see if I can dig it up. =P


Hampster Dance
Site - http://www.webhamster.com/
Info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampster_Dance

Who can forget this? One of those, "Happy, send to your friends!" pages that contaminated the internet in the early 90's, along with the Dancing Baby.
The song, from Disney's Robin Hood, is annoying, but insanely addictive. O_<


The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny
Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76CS9z9kQ44
Info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimat...timate_Destiny

This is the Ultimate Showdooown~! Funniest flash video ever... Of a bunch of superheroes and famous people duking each other to the death.
...the winner? Is a trip.


Troubled Windows
Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io6fH9wJ7cM
Info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-tan

The video that SHOULD have spawned a real Anime series... Once upon a time, on Futaba (a Japanese Image Board), someone decided to draw a picture of what "Windows ME" would look like if it were human. This spawned the massive trend of OS-tan, the personificaton of Computer Operating Systems.


Shii's Song
Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irF5fEMixng
Info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shii-chan

Shift JIS (Japanese Ascii) Art has always been unique... One of the most popular, is the Giko Cat sprouted from the depths of 2-Chan. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giko_Cat )
In time, Giko was granted a girlfriend, Shii. This spawned a video depicting Shii's lonelyness and unrequited love of Giko Cat set to the song "Wind's Nocturn" from Lunar Silver Star Story.
Very sad... T___T


Badger!
Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BUHf3tY9JI
Info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badger_Badger_Badger

WTF? The most innane, repetitive, annoying song EVER!
But an instant hit. =P

Banana Phone
Video - http://www.transbuddha.com/osaka/osakaphone.html
Info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bananaphone

A real song. Spawned instant parody. O__o
YouTube it... you'll see plenty.

O RLY?
Original Pic - http://www.orlyowl.com/orly.jpg
Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDlK6Ngv4Fs
Info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_RLY%3F

O Rly? Ya Rly! No Wai~!
It's famous... Originally started by someone on the Something Awful Forums, then spread to 4-Chan, and evolved with many "Orly Owl" pictures from there.


Peanut Butter Jelly Time
Original Flash - http://home.comcast.net/~etrata/flash/banana.swf
Family Guy - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=areyUfCNFxY
Info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_Butter_Jelly_Time

Started with a song from the Buckwheat Boys... Someone got the idea to use the Dancing Banana to make a flash. Instant Hit.
Even featured on Family Guy.
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nice....easy on those double posts
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*whitsles* Helluva long list there.
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i like never even heard of most of this stuff you listed.
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Ryo Misaki
Mar 30 2007, 08:48 AM
(Copied from the Love Hina forums: )

To lazily quote Wikipedia:

The term "meme" (IPA: /miːm/, rhyming with "theme"), coined in 1976[1] by the biologist Richard Dawkins, refers to a "unit of cultural information" which can propagate from one mind to another in a manner analogous to genes (i.e., the units of genetic information).

Dawkins gave as examples of memes: tunes, catch-phrases, beliefs, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches. A meme, he said, propagates itself as a unit of cultural evolution and diffusion analogous in many ways to the behavior of the gene. Often memes propagate as more-or-less integrated cooperative sets or groups, referred to as memeplexes or meme-complexes.

The idea of memes has proved a successful meme in its own right, gaining a degree of penetration into popular culture which relatively few modern scientific theories achieve.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Every once and a while... A video will spread across the internet, gaining such massive popularity, that it is practically known by everybody. Even, sometimes, to the point of being parodied in famous shows like Family Guy. =P

Usually just a short fad... But sometimes becoming something people remember for a long time.

So, here's a list of fun Memes we've collected.

This first group is actually all based on things from the English dub of DBZ. (Slade, you should enjoy these... xD)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBtpyeLxVkI - NINE THOUSAAANNND!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbSjKjjObLg&NR - I hope my body can take it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cS18yG8DJI&NR - The balls are inert.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnPN2yOup9E&NR - The whole universe is going to die!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd2kFtJHp0s&NR



Watashi ga Pizza de wa nai!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cdIx-tWFug&NR

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL! *spooge* (Yay for Death Note. xD)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWTlJjQjoXY

Not quite a meme...but...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehE9WtowrUk&NR

The Pylons are Trap Balls! (ITG Version)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02LMXO3Twcw&NR

Not a DDR fan? How about a GH2 version!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Scc0rq3Khc&NR


GH Toys!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs0v5-tMNp8&NR

http://youtube.com/watch?v=RqvFOEtLgQ8



Stupid Zelda CDI stuff that's awsome
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3o3xc9yyEA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-RDa2y_Zb4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au9Rb38V6q8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMHTXbFV4LY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bByvooF31oU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_Mdk91F1hU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMocYsK79DE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiRAlNycmww



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsNIUHkwC-s (Nooooooo!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dRkPkumN00 (NOOOO!)
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Ryo Misaki
Mar 30 2007, 08:49 AM
And since my post to this thread was so awesome... It deserves a second post all together. xD

Well... after finally looking through these, and laughing my ass off...

It's time for ME to contribute.

Now here are some REAL Internet Memes!

The Bus Uncle
Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSHziqJWYcM
Info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bus_Uncle

Incident in Hong Kong where an old guy gets on a bus, and completely chews out a kid for no reason. =P


Starwars Kid
Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPPj6viIBmU
Info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_kid

You REALLY dont know Memes if you dont know about the Starwars kid!
Worse yet... The guy kinda looks like myself... This is what I would do, had I no common sense whatsoever.


Chuck Norris Facts
Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8k3uGzgZIs
Info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Norris_facts
Funny - http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Norris

We ALL know the infamous Chuck Norris jokes. Hell, there was a thread about it on the forums before the crash!
Now here's a video of Chuck Norris READING Chuck Norris jokes. Hillarious!


All Your Base Are Belong To Us
Original Video - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...seAnimated.gif
Music Video - http://rmitz.org/AYB3.swf
Info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_You...e_Belong_To_Us

In AD 2101... War was Beginning...
Who DOESNT know about this? Greatest game mistranslation EVER! Became an instant classic on the internet, as PhotoShopped images of All Your Base spread the internet like WILDFIRE. FOR GREAT JUSTICE!


Numa Numa Dance
Original Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60og9gwKh1o
Info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numa_Numa

This is what happens when a really bored guy gets ahold of a Web Cam, and REALLY likes a song.
He's singing to the song "Dragosta Din Tei" by O-Zone. Great song... But this guy makes it wonderous. His facial expressions are HILLARIOUS!
This has been parodied countless times, much like the Starwars Kid.


Crazy Frog
Original Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkHm8uUuT0o
Info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Frog

What started off as a stupid animation and sound for a ghey little Cellphone site turned into the biggest fad ever.
Strangely enough... It's catchy. In the worst way possible. T__T


Dancing Baby
Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKpQkDZv-UI
Info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_baby

It started with a video... Set to the song "Hooked on a Feeling" by Blue Swede (Yeah... that "Ooga Chaka" song. ) in the early 90'.
One of the first huge internet fads I can remember. O_o


Little Fatty
Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BKxOCPjAnU

A poor Chinese High School Student named Qian Zhijun had a picture of himself in Band... Some dude loved his face, and Photoshopped tons of images with his likeness.
A thread of this was once posted by Zhang on here... I'll have to see if I can dig it up. =P


Hampster Dance
Site - http://www.webhamster.com/
Info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampster_Dance

Who can forget this? One of those, "Happy, send to your friends!" pages that contaminated the internet in the early 90's, along with the Dancing Baby.
The song, from Disney's Robin Hood, is annoying, but insanely addictive. O_<


The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny
Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76CS9z9kQ44
Info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimat...timate_Destiny

This is the Ultimate Showdooown~! Funniest flash video ever... Of a bunch of superheroes and famous people duking each other to the death.
...the winner? Is a trip.


Troubled Windows
Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io6fH9wJ7cM
Info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-tan

The video that SHOULD have spawned a real Anime series... Once upon a time, on Futaba (a Japanese Image Board), someone decided to draw a picture of what "Windows ME" would look like if it were human. This spawned the massive trend of OS-tan, the personificaton of Computer Operating Systems.


Shii's Song
Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irF5fEMixng
Info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shii-chan

Shift JIS (Japanese Ascii) Art has always been unique... One of the most popular, is the Giko Cat sprouted from the depths of 2-Chan. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giko_Cat )
In time, Giko was granted a girlfriend, Shii. This spawned a video depicting Shii's lonelyness and unrequited love of Giko Cat set to the song "Wind's Nocturn" from Lunar Silver Star Story.
Very sad... T___T


Badger!
Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BUHf3tY9JI
Info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badger_Badger_Badger

WTF? The most innane, repetitive, annoying song EVER!
But an instant hit. =P

Banana Phone
Video - http://www.transbuddha.com/osaka/osakaphone.html
Info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bananaphone

A real song. Spawned instant parody. O__o
YouTube it... you'll see plenty.

O RLY?
Original Pic - http://www.orlyowl.com/orly.jpg
Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDlK6Ngv4Fs
Info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_RLY%3F

O Rly? Ya Rly! No Wai~!
It's famous... Originally started by someone on the Something Awful Forums, then spread to 4-Chan, and evolved with many "Orly Owl" pictures from there.


Peanut Butter Jelly Time
Original Flash - http://home.comcast.net/~etrata/flash/banana.swf
Family Guy - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=areyUfCNFxY
Info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_Butter_Jelly_Time

Started with a song from the Buckwheat Boys... Someone got the idea to use the Dancing Banana to make a flash. Instant Hit.
Even featured on Family Guy.
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