Your two week long hangover may have prevented you from realizing this but… it’s 2014 now. That means 2013 is over and done with and like any other year, needs to be wrapped up nicely in one lovely drawing. This drawing, commissioned by Syzygy and created by Brosmind, sums up all that has happened on the Internet in 2013.
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We all have those Facebook friends—friends with Very Strong Political Opinions they just can’t keep to themselves. While the political memes popular on Facebook pander shamelessly to people who already agree, sometimes the memes get twisted. And mutated. And even co-opted by the opposite party.
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It’s the time of year when people start looking back over the past 12 months to remember what happened and how it captured the imagination of the population. And to kick things off, here’s Bing’s search history for 2013.
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Good Guy Greg or Scumbag Steve — you decide which one Imgur is now that its new meme generator is ready to suck up more of your time. The tool comes with a bunch of popular templates, although you can upload a picture if you’ve always dreamt of following in Overly Attached Girlfriend’s footsteps. It’s similar to services like I Can Has Cheezburger and Quickmeme — simply drop text boxes onto the images to showcase your own brand of humor and wit. Unsure how to create your own viral sensation? Browse the generator’s gallery to check out past hits and maybe try remixing a few first. Between this and Imgur’s new Android app, we wouldn’t be surprised if some of you are kissing your afternoon productivity goodbye.
Source: Imgur
You know a meme when you see one. Silly image. Impact font. Chortling punchline. You know when something goes viral on the Internet too. It’s all over Facebook. Every site you go to has a post about it. You keep seeing it for three weeks. But you’ve never seen memes and Internet viral hits like this. This is art.
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Alison Brie, the gorgeous actress that somehow juggles Community and Mad Men without creating a black hole in the Internet, is a pretty funny fellow. Oh and she’s also really, really pretty. But funny! But pretty. Anyways, she was tasked at recreating the faces of popular internet memes (think grumpy cat and overly attached girlfriend) with her own facial expressions and her effort is pretty admirable. Plus, it’s absolutely adorable. [HyperVocal] More »
Created by illustrator H. Caldwell Tanner, this wonderful, mind-numbing visualization of the internet’s very essence brings together more past and current memes than you probably ever knew existed. More »
Remember that day when you first discovered YouTube, and you wasted approximately 100 percent of your working hours just clicking around? Now, Google’s making it even easier to see what was popular back then, all the way back to 2008. Starting now, YouTube searches are surfacing on Google Trends, and some of the top memes are crafting some unsurprising charts. Turns out, Rebecca Black’s only known song peaks on a very specific day of the week, while searches for “turkey” videos tend to jump during November. Searches for “Krispy Kreme” and “Froggy Fresh,” however, are quite simply off of the charts — but would you honestly expect anything different from the self-proclaimed Baddest Of Them All?
Source: YouTube Trends
Do you find yourself spending countless hours combing through image searches looking for GIFs of cats wearing sunglasses telling people to “deal with it”? If so, then your lack of productivity is about to become even more galling. Earlier today, Google announced the addition of an animated GIF filter that allows searchers to specifically weed out photos that move. To access this soon to be overused feature, click on Google’s Search tools option and select “Animated” as your image type. While we’d hate to pull you away from your epic search for your next internet avatar, you could actually try doing something constructive, like studying the history of the GIF. Or taking a whack at spamming comments with GIFs from Knight Rider, like a certain editor that we know.
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