Category Archives: meme analysis

Is #balloonboy the meme of the year?

By Carles | October 15, 2009

It seems like the structure of the ‘floating balloon’ will allow photoshopping jpg meme producers to effectively memefy #balloonboy.
Feel excited, like a ‘memorable blog post’ is brewing inside of me, kinda like a South Park episode. Feel relieved that Balloon Boy is happening, since nothing else relevant was happening on the internet. Wonder [...]

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I Gotta Feeling… That 2nite’s Gonna Be A Meme…

By Carles | September 30, 2009

I got sad watching this meme because I will never have the opportunity to network with a group of fellow students to ‘create something beautiful.’ ‘Don’t get me wrong…’ it was uplifting, but part of me gets ‘insanely jealous’ that these students still have their youth, and more importantly they ’still believe that they [...]

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White People Must go to Extremes to make a Life Event ’seem meaningful.’

By Carles | July 25, 2009

Life is very hard for most white people, because they are ’so ordinary.’ Their expectations of ‘how things should feel’ are constructed by watching 80s, 90s, and 00s cinema. Mainly movies like bromances, romantic comedies, comedies, and miscellaneous ‘bad ass movies.’ They just need life to ’seem like a movie’ or something. [...]

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Do indie artists ‘genuinely have fun’ or are they just soulless robots who generate memes?

By Carles | July 14, 2009

I saw this picture of the lead Grizzly Bear and the CEO of the band ‘Feist.’ They appear to be riding a rollercoaster on Coney Island or something. I am not sure if they are ‘real friends’ having ‘real fun’, or if this was a moment that was coordinated by an indie Public [...]

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