Know Your Meme- "Facebook Cartoon Profile Picture Week"

Know Your Meme

In November 2010, Facebook users changed their profile pictures to a picture of their favorite cartoon. The first post about this event was in Greece and Cyprus, where on November 16th, people would change their profile pictures so that no humans would be on Facebook until November 20th.

Then the Cartoon Network created the event "Choose a Cartoon Character as Your Profile Picture for a Week" from Nov. 21st to Nov. 28th, 2010. Beginning on December 3rd though, the trend took on a new meaning as it became an effort of an anti-child abuse campaign, reported by ABC News, Gawker, and other social media outlets:
                 In support of anti-child violence, change your Facebook profile picture to a cartoon from your childhood. Until Monday Dec. 6, there should be no human faces on Facebook, but an invasion of memories. Join the fight against CHILD ABUSE. Invite your friends to do the same.


In response to this some people trolled (see blog about trolling) around and and posted images of Bart Simpson being choked or Pedobear. 

Many Facebook users posted their favorite cartoon characters as their profile picture, including me and many of my friends, and it was an interesting week in December. I though it turned into a very cool event idea.

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Know Your Meme-"Has anyone really been far as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"

Know Your Meme


“Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?” is a horrible use of the English language that was first posted in 2009 as a reply on 4chan's discussion thread about the Wii game The Conduit. It spread rapidly throughout the rest of 4chan and onto other social websites like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. 
Eventually someone was able to come up with a witty reply: “You’ve got to be kidding me. I’ve been further even more decided to use even go need to do look more as anyone can. Can you really be far even as decided half as much to use go wish for that? My guess is that when one really been far even as decided once to use even go want, it is then that he has really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like. It’s just common sense.”


The real conversation looked like this: 

Original:

“Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

Rephrased:

“Has anyone really decided as to even go that far in wanting to do to look more like so?”

It was then deciphered: 

“Has any video game company really taken such measure to make a game so realistic?"

I think this was a very creative response to the video game and gained a lot of laughs from anyone who read it, as no one knew exactly what they meant. I heard about this meme from a friend who randomly asked me that question. Needless to say I was very confused. Until now. 

Know Your Meme- "Trolling"

Know Your Meme

A troll is someone who will state something with the intention of stirring up controversy. Usually the statement is really obvious or absurd, and only absurd people will get offended and upset about it. For example, one might purposefuly spel things wrong or use poor grammar, knowing that this will drive some peoplecrazy, eliciting a response (from Know Your Meme). If you respond to a troll, you are said to be feeding the troll, so keep your coolface on. 
Successful trolling brings pleasure at the expense of others. There is controversy though in identifying people who are sincerely crazy or idiotic on purpose and those who are trolling. 


Trollface/Coolface is a meme with a comic depicting ‘what trolls want you to believe’ vs. ‘what is actually happening’. 


Examples:

Websites

One website that I really like is the Exhibition Monet 2010. I thought this website was very pleasing to the eye (the reason why it is nominated for a Webby). I love the homepage because it is so organized and easy to navigate. I also really enjoy the transitional effects and motion graphics used to move from page to page. It is extremely easy to navigate through the gallery of paintings, the captions sit nicely below, and the background does not detract the viewer from the painting, yet is artistic in its own way. They have hyperlinks set up so that you can share the information on facebook or twitter and they are easy to find. There is music playing in the background, but you can always shut that off. The journey portion of the site is interactive so that you can go through Monet's journey yourself. Overall, this site was very innovative and creative.

One website that was really bad was the Yale University School of Art. The first problem was the picture in the background. Who is that?! And why can't we see their face? There is text with a background in front of her face. The colors of the text backgrounds don't match and shouldn't be part of the color palette. The navigation is really easy, but it leads to worse looking pages unfortunately, especially the everything else page. The background is completely distracting. The Visiting page has a motion graphic background and switches from one set of country flags to another. I had difficulty reading the text because the background blended with the text background. Everything about this website is wrong and so distracting that you don't even want to try looking through the galleries and reading about what one of the best universities in the U.S. has to offer in art.