2012 in one pic.
While you’re being nostalgic take a look at the most influential redditors, most influential tumblr users, and the best GIFs of 2012!
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If the Webby Awards declare a Meme dead…
does that mean that we can no longer do them? Or can we challenge their authority? Can Memes become undead? Zombie Memes?
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It’s weird how Reddit (and other internet groups, but mostly Reddit) get so defensive about memes. Yeah, they’re often just vehicles for dumb jokes, but when you see universities run them into the ground with misuse and/or good old-fashioned bad humor, suddenly, they’re worth getting mad about, I guess?
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I like how the Reddit user who created this thinks of himself, and the rest of Reddit, as Agent Smith, a mindless AI program here to destroy anything that brings instability to their simulated reality. Because that’s how I think of them too.](http://i.imgur.com/0kzNF.jpg)
It’s weird how Reddit (and other internet groups, but mostly Reddit) get so defensive about memes. Yeah, they’re often just vehicles for dumb jokes, but when you see universities run them into the ground with misuse and/or good old-fashioned bad humor, suddenly, they’re worth getting mad about, I guess?
[via reddit]
I like how the Reddit user who created this thinks of himself, and the rest of Reddit, as Agent Smith, a mindless AI program here to destroy anything that brings instability to their simulated reality. Because that’s how I think of them too.
It sounds neat!
"You can’t “take down” a meme. Even if it were legally possible, it’s not technologically feasible. We have ironic pedophilia memes for fuck’s sake. Once it’s out there, it’s out there. Fighting against it’s just going to give you grief."
— Dear Tumblr: I Did Not Start the “I Can Count to Potato” Meme by Brad O’Farrell for Slacktory (via slacktory)
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