2010 Search

31 reconstructed results for meme in the 2010 exhibit.

1. meme

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-meme

   meme: An idea, image or joke that spreads and mutates online; in 2010 the word was crossing from Know Your Meme into ordinary speech. Example: "Sad Keanu is my favourite...

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2. Know Your Meme - The internet's meme encyclopedia

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/know-your-meme

   Know Your Meme documented the origin and spread of memes with the seriousness of an encyclopedia and the deadpan of a science show. Started by the Rocketboom video blog...

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3. 4chan - Anonymous, /b/, and the meme factory

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/4chan

   4chan's anonymous image boards, especially /b/, generated much of the internet's meme vocabulary in 2010 and gave rise to Anonymous, which attacked PayPal and Visa in...

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4. Inception - The blockbuster of 2010, and the BWONG that launched a thousand trailers

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/inception

   Christopher Nolan's Inception, released in July 2010, was the year's most discussed film online: forums argued about the spinning top, the trailer's booming brass note...

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5. LOLcats - I can has cheezburger? Still going strong in 2010

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/lolcats

   LOLcats, cat photos captioned in lolspeak with Impact font, had been mainstream since 2007 and were still the most recognisable internet joke in 2010. Ceiling Cat,...

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6. Inception BWONG - The trailer noise that took over every trailer

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/inception-bwong

   The booming brass note from the Inception trailers, nicknamed BWONG or BRAAAM, became a meme in the summer of 2010: added to cat videos, mocked in parodies and copied by...

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7. Advice Animals - Philosoraptor, Socially Awkward Penguin, Courage Wolf and friends

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/advice-animals

   Advice Animals were image macros with an animal's head on a colour-wheel background and a two-line joke in Impact font. Advice Dog started it in 2006; by 2010...

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8. Trollface - Problem?

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/trollface

   Trollface, a grinning MS Paint face drawn by Carlos Ramirez in September 2008, became the universal symbol of internet trolling by 2010. It appeared at the end of rage...

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9. Forever Alone - The rage face for loneliness, born in May 2010

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/forever-alone

   Forever Alone, a lumpy, tearful rage face first posted in a comic about a fake date in May 2010, became one of the year's most-used images: the face of solitary Friday...

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10. I Can Has Cheezburger and the Cheezburger Network - LOLcats as a media company

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/cheezburger-network

    I Can Has Cheezburger turned LOLcats into a business, and by 2010 the Cheezburger Network ran dozens of sites, including FAIL Blog and Memebase, publishing...

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11. Me Gusta - The face for enjoying something you should not

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/me-gusta

    Me Gusta, a bulging-eyed face drawn by Matt Oswald in March 2010, was the rage comic reaction for guilty pleasure. It spread through Reddit and Tumblr through the year...

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12. Y U NO Guy - "Y U NO" + any complaint, in broken English

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/y-u-no

    Y U NO Guy, a rage face taken from a manga panel, became a 2010 image macro for exasperated questions: "Facebook, Y U NO let me dislike?" It was one of the first rage...

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13. "Hide yo kids, hide yo wife" - The catchphrase of summer 2010

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/hide-yo-kids

    Antoine Dodson's warning to his Huntsville neighbours, "Hide yo kids, hide yo wife, and hide yo husband, cause they rapin' everybody out here," became the year's most...

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14. Sad Keanu - A paparazzi photo of Keanu Reeves eating a sandwich, Photoshopped everywhere

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/sad-keanu

    A May 2010 paparazzi photo of Keanu Reeves eating a sandwich alone on a New York bench became Sad Keanu in June, when Reddit and 4chan users cut him out and pasted him...

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15. "X all the Y!" (Clean all the things) - From Hyperbole and a Half to every to-do list

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/x-all-the-y

    In June 2010, Allie Brosh's blog Hyperbole and a Half published "This is Why I'll Never be an Adult", with a crudely drawn figure shouting "CLEAN ALL THE THINGS!" The...

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16. Epic Beard Man - "I am a motherf***ing ambulance"

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/epic-beard-man

    A February 2010 cellphone video of a fight on an Oakland bus involving a 67-year-old bearded man became one of the year's first viral sensations, generating remixes, a...

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17. Deal With It - Sunglasses drop, argument over

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/deal-with-it

    The "Deal With It" GIF, a pair of pixel sunglasses sliding onto a face, originated on the Something Awful forums in 2010 and became the standard way to end an argument...

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18. Vuvuzela - The droning horn of the 2010 World Cup, and the internet's loudest joke

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/vuvuzela

    The vuvuzela, the plastic horn that droned through every 2010 World Cup broadcast from South Africa, became a meme within days: browser extensions added a vuvuzela to...

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19. Haters Gonna Hate - A strutting cartoon and a shrug at criticism

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/haters-gonna-hate

    "Haters gonna hate", paired with an image of someone strutting obliviously (often a cartoon character or a walking pigeon), spread across Tumblr and Reddit in 2010 as...

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20. Facepalm - Captain Picard, hand over face

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/facepalm

    The facepalm, especially the still of Captain Picard with his hand over his face, was the standard forum and Reddit reaction to stupidity in 2010, along with the double...

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21. Rickrolling - Three years old and still catching people

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/rickroll

    Rickrolling, tricking someone into clicking a link to Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up, was a 2007 4chan prank that by 2010 was the internet's most famous...

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22. Like a Boss - From a Lonely Island song to a caption for everything

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/like-a-boss

    "Like a Boss", from The Lonely Island's 2009 SNL Digital Short with Seth Rogen, became a 2010 catchphrase and image macro: any mundane act, captioned "like a boss". It...

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23. FAIL and WIN - Epic fail, FAIL Blog, and the Fail Whale

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/fail

    "FAIL", stamped over a photo of a mishap, was 2010's favourite one-word verdict, with "epic fail" for the worst cases and "WIN" for their opposite. FAIL Blog published a...

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24. Bed Intruder Song - "Hide yo kids, hide yo wife": the most-watched video of 2010

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/bed-intruder-song

    Antoine Dodson's furious, funny interview on a Huntsville, Alabama news broadcast in July 2010 was Auto-Tuned into a song by the Gregory Brothers days later. YouTube...

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25. Double Rainbow - "What does it mean?"

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/double-rainbow

    Paul Vasquez filmed a double rainbow over Yosemite in January 2010 and wept with joy on camera. The clip sat unnoticed until Jimmy Kimmel tweeted it in July, after which...

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26. Rage comics - FFFFFUUUU, Trollface, Forever Alone, Me Gusta, Y U NO

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/rage-comics

    Rage comics were crude, four-panel MS Paint strips about everyday frustrations, drawn with a shared cast of stick-figure faces. Born on 4chan in 2008, they peaked in...

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27. Paul the Octopus - The psychic octopus who picked every World Cup result correctly

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/paul-the-octopus

    Paul, an octopus at a German aquarium, chose the winner of all seven of Germany's 2010 World Cup matches and the final by picking a mussel from a box, and became a...

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28. The Fail Whale - Twitter's over-capacity page, seen constantly during the World Cup

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/fail-whale

    Yiying Lu's illustration of a whale lifted by birds appeared whenever Twitter was over capacity, which in 2010 was often: during the World Cup, the Lost finale and the...

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29. Albums of 2010: Recovery, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, The Suburbs - Eminem's comeback, Kanye's masterpiece, and Arcade Fire's Grammy

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/albums-of-2010

    Eminem's Recovery was the best-selling album of 2010 in the United States. Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, released in November after his weekly G.O.O.D....

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30. Heavy Rain - "Press X to Jason": the interactive drama

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/heavy-rain

    Quantic Dream's Heavy Rain, released in February 2010, was a PS3 thriller told through quick-time events and branching choices. Its ambition drew praise, its awkward...

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