• You didn't make the Harlem Shake go viral, corporations did.
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[QUOTE=Killuah;40128963]Thread title doesnt match the articles point, except if you'd want to imply that YouTube forges numbers.[/QUOTE] I think that's exactly what the article is saying, which is ludicrous and implies straight out fraud.
This isn't really surprising, considering how big companies like fox were spewing out more parodies than people were.
[QUOTE=Aphtonites;40129992]This isn't really surprising, considering how big companies like fox were spewing out more parodies than people were.[/QUOTE] I love how a lot of comments on Homer SHake were to mock it beating a dead horse. Who else to beat the dead horse but the skeleton?
I remember when I first saw Harlem Shake in the Lmao Pics thread, I had no idea what it was called and it was just a silent gif of some guys from the Norway army doing it which I found pretty funny. Had no idea it would become so big.
previously unknown? bitch pls i was following baauer on soundcloud when he only had 100 followers i wrote him a comment and he wrote me one back :))
astroturfed memes fantastic just what we need
Whoever wrote the article is ignorant as hell, it got popular because it was a fad everyone (and I mean fucking everyone) tried to jump on.
Yes because millions of people sharing these videos and making them totally did nothing.
wait what are they arguing that corporations made it popular because it was hosted on youtube do they know what youtube is, or..?
that graph is a joke
but what if i'm a corporation
Did people really ran out of ideas to demonise this thing? What's going to be next? "Kim Jong Il/Un looking at things" photos / Best Korea jokes being viral because of a secret communist cult that wants to turn the world into North Korea?
kim jong il forces 1000 prisoners to harlem shake themselves to death; youtube to blame?
Harlem Shake goes viral then North Korea threatens war on the us. a simple coincidence?
[QUOTE=Bobie;40130052]previously unknown? bitch pls i was following baauer on soundcloud when he only had 100 followers i wrote him a comment and he wrote me one back :))[/QUOTE] hipster x1
What baffles me is how Filthy Frank made it popular, he doesn't exactly appeal to the masses.
i saw the filthy frank one before it blew up i'm such a hipster
[QUOTE=Maloof?;40128568]I don't understand this mentality oh no a trend that I don't enjoy burn it down[/QUOTE] Bad memes. We do everything we can to avoid negative memes, and we do everything we can to get rid of them, sometimes all we can do is just hate it, because we aren't stupid. It seems most memes (not just internet memes) that have a habit of spreading quickly in popular culture are usually negative these days. I am not saying everything is, but shit like the harlem shake are. And this isn't just some "oh well you don't like it you are a hipster or something" bullshit. This is literally that we are so close to the origin of these internet meme's creation because of the internet nerds that we are, we don't experience cultural lag from the internet front. It's natural for people to hate a meme that has gone bad, and that we have already experienced much earlier. We aren't trying to be cool (well I can't speak for everyone), it's the circumstances that we are in and the intelligence that we have that prevents us from liking these half-assed memes that we have already gone through and discarded before. For example, are you just going to bend down and take the "It's over 9000" meme up your ass to this day? Just because during around the time it was new it was actually kind of funny to you back then? I don't think people from FP are like that. Most people who kind of grew up in this internet environment where bad or old meme detection and intelligence is generally required and planted into people are not like that. I guess that is what I observe though, you may think i'm being a bit too black and white and maybe I am, but it's just what I have observed growing up in internet culture.
I never understood this meme. I didn't really pay attention to it or watch many of the videos
[QUOTE=BenJammin';40135562]Bad memes. We do everything we can to avoid negative memes, and we do everything we can to get rid of them, sometimes all we can do is just hate it, because we aren't stupid. It seems most memes (not just internet memes) that have a habit of spreading quickly in popular culture are usually negative these days. I am not saying everything is, but shit like the harlem shake are. And this isn't just some "oh well you don't like it you are a hipster or something" bullshit. This is literally that we are so close to the origin of these internet meme's creation because of the internet nerds that we are, we don't experience cultural lag from the internet front. It's natural for people to hate a meme that has gone bad, and that we have already experienced much earlier. We aren't trying to be cool (well I can't speak for everyone), it's the circumstances that we are in and the intelligence that we have that prevents us from liking these half-assed memes that we have already gone through and discarded before. For example, are you just going to bend down and take the "It's over 9000" meme up your ass to this day? Just because during around the time it was new it was actually kind of funny to you back then? I don't think people from FP are like that. Most people who kind of grew up in this internet environment where bad or old meme detection and intelligence is generally required and planted into people are not like that. I guess that is what I observe though, you may think i'm being a bit too black and white and maybe I am, but it's just what I have observed growing up in internet culture.[/QUOTE] Jesus christ someone twisted your panties up tight. A. Facepunch is not a hivemind. B. You've got no business telling people what is or isn't funny. On another note, here is the kind of memeshit people were sharing when I was kid and public adoption of the internet was still a new thing: [video=youtube;XiBYM6g8Tck]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiBYM6g8Tck[/video] Whether it was on TV (lol MTV) or on the radio, this was on all the time. Everyone learned the dance, and many learned the lyrics. It was one of the shittiest times to be alive, I assure you. And when this finally died, yet another retarded industry-forced fad came to life. Don't like it? Too fucking bad, all media is controlled by a handful of huge corporations. You should consider yourself lucky that for the most part, the internet allows for a higher standard of taste.
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