The Rise and Fall of Internet Memes

Posted by TwistyWristy on April 20, 2010, 8:06 a.m.

O Hai,

The internetz is a fascinating thing.

It has connected millions of people around the world. It has given us the ability to access billions of pages of information. But most notably, it has given us YouTube. YouTube purveyor of awsum vids is the proud record holder of the most viewed video and webpage ever with it's big hit — Yo Numa Numa's great and imma let you finish but Rick and Ashley's Groovy Penguin Avenue is the best video of all time. The argument over which of these two videos is better is a battle fought fiercely and anything but Swift as it has been raging on for nearly a decade.

Everyone's got there own opinions on the matter, from geeks and grandparents to single ladies and celebrities. The aggravating thing is, YouTube knows perfectly well which video is more popular but refuses to tell anyone. When I tell this to people, their eyes usually grow wide and they cock their heads to the side and exclaim O RLY?

YA RLY.

Being the 7334 Haxxor I am I decided to hack into YouTube's servers and get the information myself. After an hour or so I was proud to say I hacked 127.0.0.1 and was in but unfortunately, some uber noob called Leeroy Jenkins was simultaneously attempting to hack into the server and he triggered every sort of alarm YouTube had in place and then some. My screen went black replaced with the bold white letters FAIL. While I was infuriated, I was also hoping that the feds didn't come knocking and I wouldn't end up screaming "don't tase me bro".

Besides media, the internet has played an instrumental role in children's education. Prior to the internet kids sucked at geography. Seriously they sucked. At the peak of suckage, a NASA computer ran the following simulation thirty years in the future and came up with the following results: A hostile alien race landed on Earth. After declaring the following statement "All Your Base Are belong to us" they attacked. The leaders of the world, children who had previously in their lives experienced Geography Fail, had no idea where to send the troops or war planes.

They simply could not get the names and locations of the countries straight. Right now you're probably thinking, "*faceplam* Oh great, earth gets wiped out because kids don't know geography. (choice expletive here) my life. But before you despair know that thanks to the internet there is hope.

In a recent interview, a teacher proudly showed off her classes knowledge. "What is this?" she asked, pointing to a map upon which the kids proudly roared "THIS IS SPARTA!". No hesitation what so ever. Go home E.T.

Another great thing about the internet is that it has done wonders for food. P.E.T.F. member Marcus Fuller said that thanks to the viral nature of the internet, the percentages of banana consumption have dropped drastically. "Without the internet, our advertisement would've never spread as far as it did. But it's everywhere, people uses it as avatars and it even comes as a default smiley on some sites." While P.E.T.F. may be pleased, it's sister organization on other foods, was not. "Bacon?" Matt Simpson said angrily before calming down and sighing "hmmmm. I really don't feel like getting in to that right now." For other foods the internet has done wonders for, +1 to anyone who thought of cookies. On the other hand, never believe anyone who says the internet has had a profound effect on cake; it's a lie.

Soo nwaoieasdfg iwanoer… Sorry about the typos and excuse me for a second while I grab my cat who is on my keyboard, trying to type and — stuff. You may LOL but you're not the one who has fur all over their keyboard.

So I think we can all agree that the internet is a pretty epic thing and we should all greatly thank it's inventor, Chuck Norris. That's right, Al Gore, according to myth invented the internet when it was in fact Chuck Norris. Fortunately, you didn't believe this myth, otherwise Chuck Norris would have pwned you and you'd no longer be here.

KTHXBYE

Something dumb and slightly amusing I wrote late late last night… I'd love to hear what you have to say and I know you love to comment, so I put a comment in your comment box so you can comment while you comment.

TwistyWristy

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Comments

TwistyWristy 14 years ago

That's what she said.

Seriously though, nice to see you Rez.

Rez 14 years ago

<3 I suppose.

NeutralReiddHotel 14 years ago

I liked the "hacking youtube part," I lol'd.

Alert Games 14 years ago

o btw

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Alert Games 14 years ago

fuck you toast

V 14 years ago

You're thinking too hard.

TwistyWristy 14 years ago

Rez

Congrats on your Gordon Freeman vs Master Chief match it's still going on strong even though OL and I haven't really done anything to promote the site. People drop by to comment all the time.

Sinistrade

Aye, what did you see there?

dabridge

Glad you enjoyed it.

Alert Games

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V

That's what she - no.

TwistyWristy

Toast 14 years ago

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SteveKB 14 years ago

yes

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