Elspeth! Elspeth! Elspeth!
Guy Working at Paragon Sports: You’re Yatta, aren’t you? Know Your Meme is awesome.
kenyatta: Thanks. Do you still wa—
GWaPS: (expectantly) Where’s Elspethjane?

Know Your Meme 2011 Holiday Cards
Still haven’t sent out holiday cards? Made by Heather Bradley, we have your back with a set of six printable cards ready for all your holiday cheer needs :] Nyan Cat is just a taste of what we have in store..
KYMdb - Meme-Themed Holiday Cards
I am ordering card stock right now just to make these.
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Know Your Meme 2010 Year in Review (Minnit To Winnit Acoustic House Remix)
knowyourmeme: Dear Innnnnnnnnnernet. We wanted to do a really quick roundup of memes for 2010 but it ended up being five minutes long.We wanted to see if we could get through it in less than a minute.
Thanks for watching and building the database with us this year! For more ‘Memes of 2010’ visit the KYM blog. Music: ‘Deep Deep Deep’ by Eat Rabbit from the very awesome Free Music Archive.
I spent a couple hours cutting a shorter version of the Rocketboom ‘KYM Memes of 2010 video’. This is what I came up with.
I miss editing.
^ One year later and still this ^
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They Told Me I Could Be Any Meme…
Preview of my costume for Hallowmeme.
Continuing my semi-tradition of meta Hallowmeme costumes (Yatta went as ‘YATTA!’)
I even put a shorturl in there for the folks who won’t know what meme I am.
REBLOG REMINDER: THIS IS TOMORROW!
The Third Annual HallowMeme Costume Party!
When: Wednesday, October 26th at 9pm
Where: Bowery Electric (327 Bowery at 2nd Street), NYC
Attire: Come as the meme or internet sensation of your choice!Costume contest at 11pm, brought to you by Slacktory!
Drink specials all night!
For updates, follow HallowMeme on Tumblr and Twitter and RSVP onFacebook
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SAVE THE DATE - 10.26.11
The Third Annual HallowMEME Costume Party is coming to NYC…
Details forthcoming.
Who needs a company. We’re doing this anyway.
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Attack of the Show’s #memefight Reaches Its Final Round
Both Know Your Meme and I helped G4TV curate their #Memefight tournament for Attack of the Show:
The final battle of MemeFight is upon us, and after having suavely hacked his way through the competition (including a Final Four tussle with Epic Fail and Isaiah Mustafa), the Old Spice Guy will face off against the only posters on Earth with the power to take down Chuck Norris: Demotivational Posters, the bastion of empathy.
To cast your vote, proceed over to Final Round – Isaiah Mustafa vs. Demotivational Posters.
I totally don’t agree with the final round contestants but whatever. Compiling my list and arguing with them about it all was completely dorky and lots of fun.
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Taiwanese Animators Parody Know Your Meme Video
Seriously. This is fantastic. I’m done.
At KYM, we had certain distinguishable tropes and features that were used in each episode, including:
- internet scientists wearing lab coats
- meme math
- scientific experiments on each other and the meme
- historical background and other examples of pre-dating memes
The NMA clearly liked what they saw ;)
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chrismenning: Exactly. This was the core philosophy that motivated everything we did with Know Your Meme from day 1.My Thoughts on the Internet, Part 1
There were memes before the internet, of course, and Kilroy is one of my favorite examples. If you were alive during World War II, you saw him all over the place. Nobody’s sure how it started, what it means, or why it spread so far.
Graffiti has been around in various forms since the height of the Roman Empire, and its existence encapsulates many of the same traits inherent in the most exciting things happening on the internet today. People instinctively want to communicate and connect with one another, and they don’t want a high barrier of entry holding them back — whether the barrier is the need for an expensive and complex printing press or an expensive and complex data center.
Television has defined our culture since around 1950. That means more than that we all know who Walter Cronkite, Johnny Carson, and Oprah Winfrey are. It also means that we’re trained to be consumers of a broadcast model where a few create the content for all.
This didn’t happen because it was the best option, or because it’s what people wanted. It happened because, at the time, you needed your own radio tower to reach so many people. We never decided that it’d be best for four corporations to run popular culture for us. It was simply a matter of technology holding us back.
That’s rapidly changing now. Everywhere. From the writer who self-publishes her own book to a kid who records his own bizarre videos to everything you’ve ever seen on Tumblr, individuals have more power to contribute to their own cultural experience now than ever before.
Memes, blogging, photoshops, remixes, mashups… These are what drive the internet, but more importantly, the need to create and share is what drives us.
Yup, this is what Know Your Meme was about from the start.
Topherchris is in a unique position (through his job at Tumblr) that allows him to see processes and motivations, patterns and flows in a way that no one else can. I’m sure that he’s paying attention to all of that, and one day, when he starts getting on stage to talk about this stuff, this things he teaches us about culture will be incredible.
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ANNOUNCEMENT: RELOADING KYM YOUTUBE CHANNEL!
We are currently in the process of re-uploading a batch of episodes to the Know Your Meme’s YouTube page, so you may receive a flood of subscription notices for our episodes. While it’s bittersweet to start on a clean slate, you can pop in and leave the first comments for the new uploads. And if you haven’t yet, don’t forget to subscribe to Know Your Meme’s YouTube page to get the latest updates on the status of brand new episodes! Thanks for your patience.
I’m totally hitting ‘like’ on all of these videos.
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Shooting the KYM End of Year Special
It looks like we should be caroling but, sadly, we’re not.
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HallowMeme Is Back!
Join Know Your Meme & Urlesque for the 2nd Annual HallowMeme Costume Party. Dress like your favorite meme, viral video subject or other Internet phenomenon. There’ll be free drinks, live performances, giveaways, a photobooth, and—of course—awesome prizes for the best costumes!!!!1!
For costume inspiration, browse Know Your Meme’s HallowMeme costume ideas.
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