Oh Meme-oh, oh my-oh.
So, I Wikipedia’d Meme yesterday, specifically looking for the definition of an internet meme. Suffice it to say that it led to one of the shameful Wiki Death Spirals that happen once in a while, (you know it… when you start looking up one thing on Wikipedia: Lexicon of Everything True, and then it leads to clicking on a related link or term, and then another, and another, and somehow they always lead back to the US Senate for me).
This particular Wiki Death Spiral went from meme (cultural ideas, symbols or practices passed along in a viral, and evolutionary manner), to internet memes (the hamster dance, &c), to ‘All Your Base Are Belong To Us‘ (I… have no words. YouTube it. Spread the meme). Needless to say, when AYBABTU came out in the early part of the decade, me and many other 19 year-olds thought that the internet could not possibly surpass this genius creation. This was before Wikipedia itself. Before blogging, (read: Sad.Sigh), before YouTube, before the Book of Face. Hell… I’m pretty sure this was even before Muffin Films, (GOD. Remember those??). Needless to say, the internet has far exceeded my meager expectations. (Although, I’m sure we all miss Audio Satellite.)
The point being, I’ve had the techno version of ‘All Your Base Are Belong To Us’ stuck in my head for the last 26 hours, and would like it out, please.
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LOL!! Wiki Death Spirals are out of control for me when unemployed- hear that Grace?