My Most Favouritest Memes

By Roz Young




The internet is a magical place. A place where kittens can has pieces of milk products crammed between delicious carbs with homogenized cow, and where there are always two rainbows that have somehow transformed a PopTart into a pixelated cat. It makes me very happy. Almost as much as morning coffee with lots of milk and sugar. Almost. (PS Coffee with dessert makes me even happier, but that often happens at night, and then I can’t sleep, and when I do, I get teh terrors and there’s some creepy old man with an espresso telling me that he doesn’t often have caffeine before bed, but when he does, he dreams about zombies...)
If you spend any time on the internet at all, correct that, you spend time on the internet. So, you are familiar with the art of trolling. The “people” of the internet are capable of producing vast amounts of useless shite that even I don’t find hilarious and I still like fart jokes. But, every now and then, you stumble across a moment of such brilliant, transcending insight that you spit milk out your nose and a little bit of pee escapes between gasps for air. Here... I’ll show you.

See! Hilarious! And then, it gets adopted by the sweet sweet brain behind Hijinks Ensue (http://hijinksensue.com/) and we have a great time wasting the afternoon away tweeting Monty Python mixed with LoTR. Lots of things on the internet, for apparently no particular reason at all, get absorbed by the borg collective that we are, and go viral. They become memes. We change them, caption them, co-mix them, and they are released back to the internet to be trolled by others. The meme is a strange and fantastic phenomenon you can read more about at www.knowyourmeme.com.
But I have favourites. Like my cats, one I would save from a fire and the other one, well, he can probably figure it out on his own. God speed little buddy. In order to share them with you, I must first spend hours deciding who I love the most, and rank them. Because the internet is about wasting time and arguing. And kitties.
5. Business Cat

This little black fluff muffin was innocently staring off into space, probably trying to decide if it was a spider over there or a piece of string, when he was snapped in a glazed state to be forever immortalized in a collar and tie. As Business Cat, the inefficient and hilarious feline of the office cubicle farm, this kitteh has stolen my heart. And my stapler.
I would like to add that all animals dressed as people are precious to me. You might also be lucky enough to have recently spotted the rare and fuzztastic Chemistry Cat circling the internets. I loves me some crazy poofy cats, and that guy has epic fur. Also, it’s combined with nerdy science jokes! It’s like peanut butter and chocolate, you can’t go wrong. Check out his adorable little HP glasses and bow tie. Bow ties are cool.

4. Cereal Guy

Now, cereal guy is a meme that mimics what I do while trolling the internet. I see things that shock me. And then I spew little nuggets of sugary tasty all over my laptop. This particular example of cereal guy points out one the best examples of boys who grow up to be unsuspecting, awesome hotties. Neville transforms throughout the Harry Potter books, becoming a pretty kick ass dude. It’s one of the best plots eber and I’m so sad it doesn’t get due justice in the films. Neville should have his own movies, someone should get on that.
3. Hipsterized!

You can put hipster glasses on pretty much anything, cleverly caption it, and I will laugh. Something about making fun of le hipsters is hilarious to me. I think it’s because they take themselves so seriously they don’t even know they’re hipsters until it’s too late. PS Matt has pre-hipsteritis. There are symptoms, like his music and film snobbery, that get out of hand sometimes. If he buys skinny jeans and a sassy scarf, I’m going to need an intervention. I particularly like the hipsterized Disney ladies. Probably because I’m a sucker for all things animated princess with musical numbers, and teh Little Mermaid is my favourite. Hipster kitty is also around, but you probably haven’t seen him.

2. Success Kid

This baby is a way better actor than me. I also think he kind of looks like Patton Oswalt... anybody? I love that guy. Oh, right, memes. What I like about success baby is being able to use this meme in my everyday life when things go awesome for me. It’s like “That’s What She Said” and is applicable all the time. Even when Matt doesn’t think so. Especially when Matt doesn’t think so. I offer this meme to you, my friends, so that the next time you order a small latte and they make you a large by accident and don’t charge extra, you can make a fist and press your lips together in a salute to the universe. This is a way to high five yourself when the little things in your life go right. Because the big things are probably all falling apart and suck completely and they can kiss my ass. But I dropped my pen on the floor, and when I went down to get it, I found a dollar. In your face, bitches.

1. X ALL the Y!
First, go to this website and read this blog.
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/06/this-is-why-ill-never-be-adult.html
Ok, now kill the remainder of your work day reading the rest of Allie’s website. Read about Alots, they are fascinating creatures. Websites like this remind me that I’m not alone. There are people out there that aren’t normal. They have something wrong with the bits of the noodling part of their brains and it’s folded in a shape like a unicorn or a sword instead of a complicated, surface area increasing spirally pattern that exists to make it hard for people to draw what brains look like. My people, if we had better social skills we could be together, instead, we have the internet and avatars.
Ok, X all the Y. The blog was originally about becoming an adult and getting inspired to “Clean All the Things”, and then of course, later losing the energy to be growed up and responsibible, sad panda face. I love the manic, arms in the air with abandon, first panel. But, I appreciate the hilarious use of the pathetic questioning second panel when appropriate. I will provide examples, but let’s all enjoy Allie’s original first.


HAHA!! Awesome. I recently used an X all the Y to get some laughs on a friend’s facebook page. A little paint action, and voila, you have your own version for the occasion. The internets have done great things with this meme and I hope it keeps going. I certainly don’t feel like slowing down anytime soon. Now, you can just change the text to X all the whatever you feel like, or you can modify the whole image. It’s about to get silly, hold on to your chapeau.


And for the Star Wars fans...

If you haven’t already heard, Matt and I are making “Space Babes from Planet V and the Zombie Squirrels of Doom” into a fake trailer. This has been a real learning experience. Like, Roz is an idiot and stands in the way of shots a lot. Also, when you aim a bucket of fake blood, it’s really hard to hit someone in the face with the splash from a few meters away. Matt made a mini-movie of some of my fails for everyone in our Squirrels of Doom facebook group to enjoy. He also made an X all the Y for my “Ruin ALL the Takes!”, and we all had a good laugh at my expense. You should check it out. In the meantime, waste ALL your time!