Meme- Laura Ghormley

I researched the popular meme known as Rage Guy. According to encylopediadramatica.se this meme first appeared on 4chan, an image based bulletin board where users can post and comment anonymously. This drawing is based off an Eddie Murphy joke where he is discussing an unfortunate problem that can arise while one is relieving oneself. Rage Guy is a 4 panel comic in which a series of upsetting or rage inducing events take place in three of the panels and the final panel shows a crudely drawn cartoon face is showed angrily expressing one particular curse word. The letters F and U are drawn next to this character, there are exactly 7 f’s and 12 u’s. It originated in 2008 and popularity started slowly and peaked in November of 2010. This meme stayed popular until December 2011, according to Google Trends, and then began to decline slowly, although there is still some interest today.

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Sad World

   

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Sad Keanu is a photoshop meme based around a picture of actor Keanu Reeves sitting on a park bench and enjoying a sandwich by himself. Sad Keanu blew up as an internet sensation. Whether riding rocket ships or chilling on a globe, where will you see Keanu next?!? 

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Hot Dog Legs

Hot Dog Legs are fun photos of legs shot at a first person perspective looking like hot dogs. In other photos they are hot dogs placed strategically to look like legs. These legs were first seen on Tumblr in August of 2013. Shortly after appearing on Tumblr, Hot Dog Legs got their own Facebook page. There is even a quiz. Are they hot dogs or are they legs? The Hot Dog Legs are still popping up in our feeds; mostly in the summer months.

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On March 14th, 2012, a post titled “Just a book owners smile…” was submitted to the Reddit with a photo of a young girl posing with three Goosebumps books, which receaived over 17,000 up votes within two weeks. Later On October 15th, 2015, Vanity Fair published an extensive investigation into the meme, including an interview with Maggie Goldenberger, the girl in the photo.