FOR SCIENCE!

[revolutionaryjo]

I need your help, internets. For reasons that do not need explaining at this juncture, I require assistance nailing down the ten most important internet memes anyone should know.

Yes, it's a heavy burden. But with your assistance I trust I can do this thing in an empirical way.

So vote for the lulz if you have a moment.

Poll

Comments

[telepresence]

I'd add one of the horrible gross out sex related ones. Goatse, Lemon Party, Tubgirl, Two Girls One Cup (or better and less gross, Two Girls One Cup reaction vids), etc.

[rubyd]

Pedobear, only if because it's really common.

[revolutionaryjo]

True enough, but this must be kept PG-13. Yes, I know. The irony of trying to make internet lulz fit into the PG-13 box.

[kirideth]

Put the Internet in a seXbox. It's hueg enough to accidentally a whole Internet.

[vorrant]

Should I be glad, proud, or out of the loop that I recognize about 5 of those?

[revolutionaryjo]

In the process of doing this, I'm realizing just how extensive my useless knowledge of the internet really is. Every time I start googling one meme I wind up remembering ten others and ten variations of those that I'd forgotten. So it's probably a good thing. Use your spare brainpower for good, not whatever this is.

[porcelainsakura]

I think we should have levels of knowledge and find out where our audience is at and procede from there.

[revolutionaryjo]

That makes preparation difficult though. There will likely be no internet in that room.

[kirideth]

It's generally "Hueg" not "Huge" for XBox as far as I knew it? Though it looks like that's not gonna make it anyway.

[revolutionaryjo]

Well yes, but then do you also write it Hueg Liek Xbox? And then it just gets into weird capitalization territory. I went for the standard spelling rather than overthink it.

It's a bit old meme by now I suppose too, yeah. They just don't make memes like they used to I guess.

[lugia222]

But is the point of the panel to only cover new memes, or to help people understand the classics? Or both? I mean, Hueg Liek Xbox and RickRoll are both "old meme" but they're classics and they're not going anywhere.

[revolutionaryjo]

The angle I'm coming at it from is as a basic primer to what a meme is. So yeah, a combination of the classics and some of the newer stuff. I think we've got a decent cross section from the voting results thus far actually.

If there's time we can of course cover more.