#Pray for Boston

A horrible tragedy located at Boston marathon on the 15th of April 2013 happened when a bomb was exploded close to the marathon. Horrible, horrible, horrible.

The reaction in the Internet followed the dreadful incidence only after couple of minutes after it had happened. A numerous amounts of photographs, videos and news started to spread in the social media channels, such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. On the 15th of April, the phrase "Boston marathon" was tweeted 2,910,316 times, can you believe that? At the moment, the #prayforboston reaches 1,051,372 photos posted on the behalf of people, all around the world in Instagram.

Memes are often born from silly and fun events, but this shows, that they are also a convention to bring crowds together after global tragedies.

So people, lets  #prayforboston!

Hello, yes this is...

Most memes hang about the internet for a few weeks and then fall off the earth into the black hole of irrelevant drivel; however some memes become living legends and become bigger than the internet. One of these is the Hello, yes this is dog meme which become one of the most recognised memes on the internet and grew a few sister memes from it like Hello this is horse and also add ons to the original. A very simple formula which has resulted in very funny results.


 

Crazy Gifs: The Cat Edition

Gifs are fast becoming one of the most talked form of memes. Gifs are moving animation and were once only used in your first computing class to show a moving spider which we can all agree is as dull as dishwater. However Gifs have been dragged into the 21st Century with attacking cats, people falling over stuff and also being hit with things! Here are some of my favourite Cat Gifs!

Haters Gonna Hate

Urban Dictionary describes the phrase ‘haters gonna hate’ as ‘usually used as a comeback at a person who expresses an opinion that the user of the phrase disagrees with and/or feel personally offended by, often for completely irrational reasons.’

The phrase started with a GIF of a chubby guy with a confident stride and a speech bubble with ‘haters gonna hate’ and then grew to become a series of memes all with different smug looking pictures and the same saying.

"In Soviet Russia.."

Yakov Smirnoff ( no, not the vodka) is a comedian who emigrated to U.S from the USSR. "In Soviet Russia" is a joke series originated by the comedian. The joke is an example of antimetabole. The joke is old, it was popular in the late 80's and eventually fell out of fashion in the 90's. Nowadays, it has been brought up to life among various online communities and in social media and it has become a meme. 

The joke series contracts the differences between for example, the U.S and Soviet Russia. Here's a couple of funny? examples;

In America, you break law.

In Soviet Russia, law breaks you!

In America, your work determines your marks.

In Soviet Russia, Marks determines your work!

In America, you assassinate presidents.

In Soviet Russia, presidents assassinate you!

In America, you watch Big Brother.

In Soviet Russia, Big Brother watches you!

These jokes have been used in popular TV animation shows such as, the King of the hill, Family guy and the Simpsons. 

The reason why the joke was reborn in 2005 is unclear, but since that it has become a meme and people are making their own versions of it and distributing them all around the various internet communities and channels.