Choose which “Internet Meme” you feel is the most icky and/or overrated

[Sholem Itzhak 84]

One particular thing that sometimes concerns me is what people seem to identify as familiar sights and sounds of going online.

 

As I’m certain many of you will recall, back when many of us were first going online in the mid 90’s (which might I add was also when many online services began offering access to the Internet), what people identified as familiar sights and sounds included the unforgettable “You’ve Got Mail!”, “AOL Movie-Phone” or “AOL Keyword Nick”. Aside from that, what constituted of the “general” things you would online seemed a lot wider and not as much focused toward a single demographic; much of the stuff we’d do or explore online was playing games on Nick.com, seeing what candy you could order off CaliforniaCandy.com, hanging out at places such as pbs.org or mamamedia.org (I still remember the commercial), clicking onto yahooligans.com while at school, and heading onto Noggin.com to see Phred (from the Phred On Your Head Show) and do lots of other cool things, all while you asked your parents to call your cable or satellite company to try and convince them to put Noggin on their channel lineup (this was before “Feetface” and “Moose A. Moose”).

 

Now don’t get me wrong; I’m certain even back than the Internet did have some adult/icky places and sights and sounds that weren’t for everyone (I remember when I tried to search for images for my school projects while at school, and the filter system kept blocking the image search engines with “Pornography” as the listed reason; that’s actually how I first learned that word); but at least as far as I’m concerned, those things wouldn’t generally come to the average user’s mind immediately when thinking about using the Internet. But then, after Bush was sworn in and the Twin Towers fell, everything began to change. Eventually, the sights and sounds that people would identify as going online would become more centered on more adult/icky places and activities; and with that eventually came familiar yet icky and/or ridiculous “Internet Memes” that even today people still identify as familiar sights and sounds of going online. I won’t go too much deeper into this; not just because I don’t want this getting too complex, but also because I have difficulty describing my thoughts and feelings (particularly if I have a unique view or sense on something).

 

On a side note, more recently though, while a significant number of these “Internet Memes” and other sights and sounds that people identify as part of going online appear to still holding up (and even giving inspiration for things such as Cartoon Network and the stereotypical “The 90’s are All That”), the ways people are generally using the Internet are changing once more. Take for example The Occupy Movement, and sites like Change.org, Moveon.org (though this site has existed for years), Kcikstarter.com, etc. Today, a familiar trait of using the Internet among the general public is using it to embrace collective wellbeing, push for change for the better we can all share and work together make the world a better place. And speaking of collective wellbeing, another familiar trait that going online holds today is of course MLP:FiM and the proliferation its important messages of friendship and collective wellbeing though interconnection, art and music (like “Snowdrop” and “Children of the Night”), all while having fun everyone (not just the “adult” demographic, at least most of the time) can relate to and be nurtured by in  appositive way.

 

Anyway, now for this thread’s subject: Of all the “Internet Meme’s” you’ve seen that these days are also considered a familiar sight and sound of going online, what would you consider the most icky and/or most ridiculous (even if you do happen to enjoy them, which I do have all respect for)? Among these 5 listed “Internet Memes”, feel free to vote on which you feel is the most icky and/or most ridiculous:

 

-Rage Comics:

Personally, whenever I see an image of a familiar character like SpongeBob or a Pony whose face was replaced that of what they call the “Troll Face”, I don’t laugh, I instead get a bad feeling inside me which sort of gives you the urge to make like this (http://images1.fanpop.com/images/image_uploads/Mike-s-New-Car-pixar-1024771_768_576.jpg). If I were a child, I’d be scared of these faces and would want to avoid seeing them.

 

-Rickrolling:

There’s nothing really icky about this. The joke generally seems harmless, and the whole music video itself is very interesting; but why do people use the same video instead of something different?

 

-Nyan Cat:

Nothing icky about this one either (at least, the original GIF and video). Just can’t see what makes Gen Y and others go crazy over this. Even though it’s not icky, because it is an “Internet Meme”, it doesn’t feel like something “school appropriate”; it’s hard to explain.

 

-The Duck Song (video):

What made people go crazy over the well known video adaption of the song in the first place (so much that a children’s book was made from it)? The song is ok, but the illustrations are a teeny-weeny bit icky (but not repulsive). There are other, much better video adaptions of this song; and Songdrops has a lot of other songs that everyone can enjoy.

 

-Taking images and writing something sensitive in that familiar font such as this (http://legacy-cdn.smosh.com/smosh-pit/062011/thornberry-smashing.jpg):

It’s bad enough that people are encouraged to take innocent images and write icky interpretations on them (something I think Fred Rogers would be concerned about); but why do they use the same font?

[Megas 27,624]

Personally when a meme becomes forgotten over time, sometimes I begin to miss 'em. But Rage comics and "arrow to the knee" are memes I'll never miss

 

Also I love Rick Rolls, you at least get to hear a good song when you get trolled

Edited January 25, 2014 by Megas75

[Static Electricity 729]

Twerking. It's just, so... ugh.

[SanityNotIncluded 335]

Not on the poll, but for me it has to be "The Cake is a Lie". You know what's also a lie? Your originality. 

[PlunderSteed 1,252]

Pewdie Pie. That guy's a hack.

[Pinkie Dust 85]

Pewdie Pie. That guy's a hack.

yup I question how that guy became most when their are so many more deserving people.

[Scootalove 10,689]

Rage comics and Twerking, just no.

[Judgement 445]

The overused photos with the captions under them. They are just lame. Yet my friends laugh all the time when they see them.

[Clover Heart 978]

I like most memes, I think, if they're done right. What I dislike about memes is people who don't use them right. For example, there's an established image to go with a certain phrase or is done in a certain format, and someone thinks that they should deviate from that completely or they just mess up the set phrase that goes with the image. Seriously? Take internet 101 before you start making memes. Which isn't that hard, all you have to do is look at lolcats and facebook for about 5 hours.

 

Speaking of which, I think lolcats have kinda outstayed their welcome. They were good for a while and I do think people have cut down on how much they make them, but still, kinda old.

 

Also, that "What society thinks I do" meme got old fast.

 

Oh, and those stupid "motivational" things? The ones that are all like "Your real friends are like the smell after a fresh rainsho-" *gag* Please...

 

Not on the poll, but for me it has to be "The Cake is a Lie". You know what's also a lie? Your originality. 

 

Omg, yes >.< I hate whenever I casually bring up cake, someone alllllways has to interject into my conversation "The cake it a lie! A herp-derp!" I ATE IT, I'D KNOW, I WAS THERE, BITCH!! *gunshot*

Edited January 25, 2014 by Clover Heart

[Midnight and Shira 123]

Doge. I use doge memes all of the time, but even I will admit that it's horribly overrated.

[Lightning Dust 19]

For me, I never really got the ''Doge'' meme. Like, seriously? 

 

But my all-time-worst-that-makes-me-facepalm-a-lot must be the memes in which they take a picture of a cat (cute ones, of course  )

and then they make a caption with intentionally bad spelling. It makes my hair fall out 

And about the cats: I don't get it. Cats in all forms and colors are allowed on the internet, but if you post a pony/horse, you are suddenly ''gay'', a ''faggot'', a ''dumb brony bitch'' etc etc. What did we ever do to them, sheesh. 

 

Everyone knows that cats are evil beings who dominate our world and are planning on making humanity their slaves and there's nothing we can do about it.

[AppleGearRising 526]

Honestly I have a weird affection for "Never Gonna Give You Up" and don't understand how it is in any way annoying or bad. My favourite meme just happens to cross-over with my favourite fandom in this image:

[Blackened 512]

Doge. What's funny about saying "Wow, such doge"?

[Tigerpop198 696]

Twerking, when ever I see it I feel ashamed. It's not called Twerking, it's called being stupid.

[Celtore 2,770]

I have to agree with twerking, it's just awkward and makes me cringe... However, I can take solace in the fact that it will eventually die out after it reaches a certain level of popularity in the media, just like the freaking Harlem Shake.

[CHAOS_FANTAZY 42]

Twilicane, followed closely by Doge.

 

Doge is stupid, and I really just don't get it.  Like, what's funny about a dog making a stupid face and having some ugly multicolored words generalizing the contents of the thing in question?  Not much, that's what.  The face in itself isn't funny, and the text involved makes the writer look stupid rather than being amusing.

 

But not even bronies are exempt from making bad memes.  Really, Season 4 hasn't spawned any amusing memes yet, and Twilicane is not only the worst FiM meme I've seen, but also the worst meme, period.  It was obnoxious, it was everywhere, and most importantly, it wasn't funny.  There was exactly one Twilicane post I found even vaguely amusing, which is of course a record low.

[Irish Mist 119]

The plague of advice animals. I liked them at first way back when it was just Advice Dog, Courage Wolf and Insanity wolf among others, but now it's just ridiculous. There are literately hundreds of them and new ones popping up every day, plus how Reddit is now overflowing with Confession Bears, that duck and scum bad Steve's, it's just so irritating. It use to be funny, but now it's just a bunch of college age jerk off's complaining about their lives and how tough it must be to be living as a white, middle class guy. So tough. 

[\/ 651]

Not on the poll, but for me it has to be "The Cake is a Lie". You know what's also a lie? Your originality. 

Do you have any idea where that comes from? It's from Portal. The cake is offered by Glados if you finish the testing. You don't get cake. It's a lie.

Edited January 25, 2014 by Pixelated Awesome

[SanityNotIncluded 335]

Do you have any idea where that comes from? It's from Portal. The cake is offered by Glados if you finish the testing. You don't get cake. It's a lie.

Oh believe me, I know........ I know so very well.....

[Windseeker 546]

There is no terrible meme I could think of, they are all hilarious or great in their own ways. From the oldest like King Harkinian to new pony memes like Titty monster, I seen almost all of them. (No thanks to after school tutoring)

 

Well actually, I think poor Wilford Brimley memes are horrifying.

[Jokuc 8,173]

that boring dog and all the doge stuff. It's just stupid and I don't think it's funny at all. I don't even understand what the dog has to do with it

Edited January 26, 2014 by Jokuc