Know Your Meme is a Rocketboom series and meme database that documents Internet phenomena: viral videos, image macros, catchphrases, web celebs and more.

Sat, Feb 6th
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
— Virginia Woolf (via bitchville)
Sat, Jan 30th
Your moment of zen

Your moment of zen

Fri, Jan 29th

Know Your Meme: Advice Dog

We’ve got everything you ever needed to know about Advice Dog, including messages from the dog’s real owner, and some helpful reminders on why this kind of meme spreads in the first place.

Thu, Jan 28th
We’re in yr iTunes
killing yr doods

We’re in yr iTunes
killing yr doods

Wed, Jan 27th
Dawkins gets the “Keep Calm and Carry On” treatment. :D
(via merlin)

Dawkins gets the “Keep Calm and Carry On” treatment. :D

(via merlin)

Mon, Jan 25th

Confirming Our Geek Status: Mediaite and Geekosystem

This morning I got a pleasant surprise. Two different websites have chosen to recognize me alongside my more visible coworkers. :)

Mediaite Presents: 25 Need-To-Know Bloggers You May Not Know Already

Cheese, Menning, Wilkinson, and Rountree — principally Menning and Wilkinson, who head up the Know Your Meme database project — … Know Your Meme could become a gatekeeper and tastemaker that the Internet badly needs: It’s not that no one has tried something like it before, but that no one has quite struck the right balance.

Then, Geekosystem took it a level further by quantifying our collective value in some bight shiney stats! (Is our penchant for data showing? ;)

30 Great Web Geeks: #23 - Know Your Meme

We are truly honored!

Sat, Jan 23rd
thedailywhat:

Laugh it up, but I give it 500 years before we’re all sacrificing noms to the Golden Cheezburger.
[loltheorist.]

thedailywhat:

Laugh it up, but I give it 500 years before we’re all sacrificing noms to the Golden Cheezburger.

[loltheorist.]

Wed, Jan 13th
thedailywhat:

Crossword Clue of the Day: Oh Will Shortz, you cheeky devil.
[biotv.]

thedailywhat:

Crossword Clue of the Day: Oh Will Shortz, you cheeky devil.

[biotv.]

Tue, Jan 12th
Sun, Jan 10th

The Plight of the Digital Chicken in Second Life

Patrick Davison of Meme Factory talks about how Psion chickens caused a social meltdown in Second Life. The digital birds were bred for their color and numbered almost one-hundred thousand causing server slowdowns and attracting griefers.