![]() ![]() On the next Weekend Edition Sunday, there’s a conversation scheduled between NPR’s Rachel Martin and Know Your Meme’s Don Caldwell (who Two-Way readers might recall we spoke with about 2011’s best memes).Ĭaldwell tells Rachel that the best memes “say something about the person who’s sharing them” - such as “What People Think I Do.” They include “ McKayla is not impressed” - the photos that seemed to pop up everywhere after American gymnast McKayla Maroney struck a less-than-pleased pose after she won a silver medal at the London Olympics.Įven President Obama got in on that meme. There were also many other memes that might have made that list, but could be on yours. 1 meme of 2012, according to the memeologists at Know Your Meme.Īfter all, Korean pop singer PSY’s catchy tune and the video for it “spawned hundreds of parodies and copycat dance videos on YouTube and surpassed Justin Bieber’s single ‘Baby’ as the most watched video on YouTube,” as Know Your Meme writes.įriday, there was word that “Gangnam Style” is the first video to pass 1 billion on YouTube.īut there was competition for Know Your Meme’s No. Presented as Work-In-Progress at TVX2014, Jun 25-27, 2014 in New Castle, UK.“Gangnam Style” is the No. PublicationĢ014.06 "Oppan Internet Meme Style: A Case Study of Internet Memes through Digital Artifacts on Social Media"īy Changhoon Oh, Hajin Lim, Kyle Koh, Jinwook Seo, Bongwon Suh We identified four features of creative practices on digital artifacts that could be helpful to understand the way Internet memes evolve through social media and useful to develop creativity support tools in the future. After gathering 335 memes of “Gangnam Style” from various social media, we analyzed their level of variation based on how they adopted each component of the original source. We broaden the understanding of Internet memes with a case study of “Gangnam Style,” one of the most widely spread and shared Internet memes in recent years. The term Internet meme has often been used to explain the phenomena that invite netizens to voluntarily participate in the creation and spread of a culture through cultural genes (i.e., memes). Internet memes became what defines a current generation of Internet culture. ![]()
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