Suddenly, he was everywhere. He had this extremely relatable confused grimace that really seemed to capture the zeitgeist in and not totally sure what was going on at the time that would explain why. His family seems to be looking after him and, more bizarrely, it also feels like the internet at large is looking after him. Even though the first Shrek came out in , it took a few years for the internet to really embrace the green Scottish ogre.
A good friend once told me he thought of a Vine as one sentence in the visual grammar of video. Everything you need to convey one idea in a video you could do in a six-second Vine. It was a revolution and you could argue it has had a more profound legacy on how we create and share videos than bigger platforms like YouTube or Netflix.
For a long time, I, like many people, believed that Vine was shut down too soon. Now, I think it actually shut down exactly when it should. Memes are often tied to some technological advance, such as the six-second looping video or the quote-tweet format.
At the start of the decade, animated GIFs were actually hard to make. You needed Photoshop, which is expensive and hard to use. Sourcing high-quality video to turn into a GIF was also harder. In a pre-Giphy world, truly good animated GIFs were prized and hoarded, saved in folders on a desktop to use in reactions.
On Tumblr, the main source of GIFs, there was a vast gulf between the number of users actually making GIFs and the amount of people reposting them. Because of the format of the show, where the women were literally asked to react directly to the camera, the Housewives were perfect for emotional reaction GIFs.
The enduring power of the Real Housewives through the decades was proven in by the popularity of an image of an early season of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills , where one Housewife is yelling while another holds her back, juxtaposed with a white cat named Smudge scowling at a dinner table. The Joker obviously existed long before social media, but the character's glee-filled take on chaotic nihilism has, for better or worse, become inseparable from how we imagine a very specific kind of kind internet user: angry, insular, often violent, male.
Over the last decade, a symbiotic relationship has evolved between new Hollywood iterations of the Joker and the internet's digital underbelly. The idea of a nameless grungy psychopath burning piles of dirty money, throwing a city into chaos to satisfy his twisted rage, was a perfect avatar for a generation of Occupy-adjacent millennials graduating into a global economic recession and harnessing technology to claw back control of their own lives.
All the clown prince was missing was a vape to better embody late millennial toxic masculinity. Why is his shirt open? Why is there a toilet in the yard? Who is lying and why is he so seemingly happy about accusing someone of lying? And yet, it turns out was the right moment for this meme to exist and serve as the perfect totem for the impending post-truth internet.
If you think about it, being horny is like when content trends before it becomes a meme sex is the meme. The only silver lining is that it can happen to any of us. Horny users of the web, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!
They took themselves seriously in a sense, and were the domain of redditors or angry 4chan guys, or something a brand used in a Super Bowl ad to seem relevant. Then, a friendly Shiba Inu appeared with funny language and words around him, just being amused and delighted by the world.
Doge was here to make us happy. The lovable green amphibian became one of the most memeable nonhuman characters of the decade, next to perhaps only SpongeBob and Shrek.
Two massive memes, Kermit sipping tea and Evil Kermit, earned the Muppet his place in meme Valhalla, and made a bunch of smaller memes Sad Kermit puppet , Kermit in the car take off. Though it was a pretty fresh meme format at the time, whatshouldwecallme posts just look a lot like the way we communicate online today. But to stay a meme is a much harder feat. Guy Fieri is embodiment of this.
Only time will tell whether or not Flavortown can survive the ages. From there, it blew up as a fun visual gag that was infuriating and odd. The Dress was posted to BuzzFeed the same day two llamas escaped in Arizona , and a live TV police chase of the two animals enthralled the internet as adorable mayhem broke out. In retrospect, that two such happy, carefree, unproblematic things took over the internet on the same day seems like wild serendipity.
It also feels like the last day the internet felt purely joyful, before the onslaught of the election took place and things took a darker turn. The dress is, indeed, black and blue, even though over two thirds of the millions of BuzzFeed readers who voted said they thought it was white and gold.
The dog engulfed in flames, denying that anything is wrong, is from the webcomic Gunshow by K. The meme has been used a lot to describe various political situations: The official GOP Twitter used it once , and a senator even described the comic during a Senate Intelligence Committee while describing how Russian election interference was not fine. Soon, brands were using the phrase on their social media.
In the Fader , Doreen St. None of us wanted to write about Pepe. He started as a chill frog in a comic by artist Matt Furie. He then became a consistent, but largely forgettable fixture of 4chan in the early part of the decade. The first time I saw him was in a meme that read, "We are the middle children of history.
Born too late to explore Earth, born too early to explore space. Furie has famously tried to litigate Pepe away from fascists, but it hasn't really worked. All speech, online and off, is political. And all symbols, even chill frogs, require protection and upkeep. Feels bad, man. It started with sports fans but soon spread to become an enduring and universal image for faux sadness. Perhaps his role in the movie Space Jam has lent him some level of internet irony that makes the meme so satisfying.
That feeling Jordan may have — a moment of vulnerable emotion being plastered all over the internet for laughs — of course would be best depicted by, well, the Crying Jordan meme. Did anything result in as many memes in the s as SpongeBob? The show, which started in and is still going 20 years later, is so deeply entrenched in pop culture it would be hard to count how many memes have come out of it. Chum Bucket, evil Patrick, blurry Mr.
Krabs, sleeping Squidward , and so many more. The meme's staying power can be attributed to a few things. The simple art and animation style also beget some of the most instantly understandable reaction memes. May SpongeBob memes continue to prosper until [SpongeBob narrator voice] one eternity later. Drake starred in Degrassi: The Next Generation. An earlier version of this post misstated which Degrassi series he was on.
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Flipping guy Sticker By onlymerch. What's hot. Where does rage comics come from? They're extremely popular online — especially with the younger crowd — and you can see them being used to depict nearly every relatable situation imaginable.
Popular now. Who uses rage comics? Note This is not meant to be a formal definition of rage comics like most terms we define on Dictionary. Redefine your inbox with Dictionary. In the context of rage comics, the phrase is used to mean "in a daring way". In the context of Rage Comics, sexytime refers to the act of sexual intercourse. Poorly Drawn X is an snowclone usually used in rage comics to refer to poorly drawn objects.
Origin: Comic strip about the "toilet splashback" experience, first posted on 4chan in August , using a template provided by the original poster. Origin: Cartoon strip about a couple's argument posted on SomethingAwful Forums by graphic designer Bob Averill in Origin : Created by Redditor "Insert" who first posted the face on 4chan in March of Hilariously absurd.
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Read Edit History. About Rage Comics are a series of web comics with characters, sometimes referred to as "rage faces", that are often created with simple drawing software such as MS Paint. Rage Makers As a result of the popularity of rage comics and the need for an easier method for their creation, several "rage makers" have been developed. Advice Animals Some ragefaces found their way to become successful Advice Animal-style image macros.
Terminology Le X Most rage comic creators tend to add a "le" at the beginning of a sentence which signifies an action or as a replacement for the word "the". Sexytime In the context of Rage Comics, sexytime refers to the act of sexual intercourse. Brief History of Rage Comics About : Rageguy is a character commonly used to express serious disappointment, exasperation or displeasure in any given situation. About : Trollface, a. About : Cereal Guy is a stick figure character commonly used on discussion forums as a multi-purpose reaction face.
Origin : Original Reddit thread posted on August 24th, ; still researching About : Fuck Yea Guy is a self-complacent looking character used to express pride or victorious sentiments, like when you wake up a few seconds before the morning alarm goes off. About : Forever Alone Guy is a lonesome character that is used to express loneliness and disappointment with life.
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