Granted, the problem with getting attached to a long-term meme is that people who pay attention to social media get really, really sick of it. My favorite memes are the ones that stick around long enough to iterate into really baroque, obscure versions of themselves, like 2017’s “distracted boyfriend” meme, which became so ubiquitous that it turned into an absurdist joke, a super-literal anti-joke, a framework for original-photography jokes, and eventually a meta-joke about its own fade to irrelevance. We made one /DQEEfiuo29- Monterey Bay Aquarium April 6, 2018
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Tasha Robinson, Film / TV Editor: The American Chopper comic “You Should See Me in a Crown” teaches us these memes are just for showing off moments when you’re feeling yourself and there doesn’t have to be a reason for it at all. The main difference is that “Karma’s a Bitch” made a lot less sense, whereas this challenge seems to tie up the loose ends and questions you might have after seeing the “Karma’s a Bitch” challenge, like what’s it for and why. It followed in the footsteps of sibling meme “Karma’s a Bitch,” from back in January, when users would mouth the line from Riverdale before donning a cute outfit, hair, and makeup.
Some had real fun with it, including some gender-bending transformations, or people who already looked good transforming into. They all had to perform a similar hand gesture of placing a crown on top of their heads as well.
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As Eilish sings “you should see me in a crown,” each user transforms from looking bedraggled in their PJs to fully decked-out goddesses, devils ready for a Halloween party, or emperors in full Chinese regalia. If you haven’t yet seen Chinese internet users don a crown, the “You Should See Me in a Crown” challenge highlights a line from Billie Eilish’s hit single and sets it to short clips posted on TikTok. Shannon Liao, Reporter: “You Should See Me in a Crown” It’s a few extremely repeatable seconds of uncannily anthropomorphic glee, and dear god, did I need that. The smol South Korean boi’s dance moves are such that they can abide a variety of different jams, from the original video’s soundtrack, GFriend’s “Time for the Moon Night,” to, uh … *squints at clipboard* “Slob on my Knob.” But the animated Disney series’ title tune is the undisputed perfect match: his little shoulders pop at all the right bass twangs, and when the scissors speed up, so do his moves. That said, the meme that undoubtedly inspired the most renewable joy in my blackened, shriveled heart this year is the tiny Pomeranian dancing to the Ducktales theme song while getting a haircut. (Our tech editor Natt Garun will expand on this later.) True Genius reporter James Vincent even made the actual butterfly from the image a custom emoji for the Vox Media Slack, which only added to its efficacy. Instead of haranguing my writers to PIOTS (Put It On The Site), I can simply respond to their slightly off-task riffing with “ is this a post?” and get my point across.
Judging on utility alone, “is this a pigeon?” has certainly yielded the greatest dividends for me as an editor. Me getting ready to do something toxic /V3QyT9ZeQj- heterochaotic July 2, 2018 So instead of publishing a roundup of the best memes of 2018, we present our personal favorites, the ones that got us through the year.ĭevon Maloney, Internet Culture Editor: Dancing Haircut Pup The memes we shared there were a reminder of why we continue to log on every day, despite mounting evidence that the internet is Bad. A Slack channel - #goods-tweet - was even made for them, a happy place we could all visit to take a moment away from the aggressive grind of the day’s news, to celebrate Tumblr teen ingenuity, viral tweet genius, and the perfect Gritty meme. In 2018, a lot of memes, viral videos, and all-around excellent content were shared among the staff of The Verge. Do you pick the most creative ones? The most popular? The most influential? The ones that became part of our everyday vocabulary? The most emblematic of where we’re at as a culture? Go with any one of these, and you’re letting a lot of really excellent memes go unrecognized. With the sheer deluge of online creativity this hellish year has inspired, picking the “best” memes of 2018 feels a little futile.
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