A meme is quite simply a concept, behavior, or idea that spreads, usually via the internet.

Memes most commonly illustrate themselves in a visual such as a picture or a video, but it can also take the form of a link, hashtag, a simple word or phrase or even an entire website.

They're funny, clever, and great for social sharing.

WHAT’S DELAYING MY DINNER?

HARRY FREESFrees took photos of his pets, added text, and turned them into greeting cards.

The birth of LOLcats. This photo is from 1870’s!

DANCING BABY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5x5OXfe9KY

One of the earliest examples of a meme

Popular in 1996, this meme was spread through email

Was so mainstream it was featured in “Ally McBeal”

DANCING HAMSTER

Popular in the late 90’s

TIPS FOR A SUCCESSFUL MEMEYour Images should appeal to a LARGE group of people

Use Humour! Funny memes spread fast!

Share your meme in popular places…

• Snowclone – a template saying or phrase where the user can change certain words that keep to the original saying or change the picture with the same words

MEME TALK

• Advice animals – A photograph of an animal or human captioned with quotations typical of a that stock character or stereotype

MEME TALK

Caption stereotypical of how men think/feel, etc.

Manly man

• Font Choice for most memes is IMPACT • Usually in all CAPITAL LETTERS• Text is usually white with

black outline

FONT

TYPES OF POPULAR MEMES

SUCCESS KIDStarts with a potentially bad ending but then ends positively

LOST MY PHONE

NO MORE ANNOYINGTELEMARKETERS

The captions typically contain confessions about naive and embarrassing childhood beliefs.

WHEN I WAS A KID…

I THOUGHT SOAP TASTED LIKE IT SMELLED. I WAS SO WRONG

CONFESSION KID

A memorable quote from Family. On the web, the expression is used to express annoyance or pet peeves about at topic

YOU KNOW WHAT REALLY GRINDS MY GEARS?

YOU KNOW WHAT REALLY GRINDS MY GEARS?

PEOPLE WHO LEAVE THEIR XMAS LIGHTS ON UNTIL APRIL.

“X all the Y”, sometimes known as “X all the things”, is a snowclone and exploitable cartoon used to make a hyperbolic statement about performing an action.

The person in the original comic panel is often manipulated to appear as a different character.

X all the Y

An Advice Animal who is extremely wealthy. His caption is meant to flaunt his money to all.

Another variation refers an everyday item, but then presenting a ridiculously luxurious version.

I BLOW MY NOSE

WITH $100 BILLS

RICH RAVEN

TECHNOLOGICALLY IMPARED DUCK

An advice animal who thinks he knows about technology butis really clueless

PRESS ANY KEY TO

CONINTUE?

THERE DOESN’T SEEM TO BE ANY “ANY” KEY

UGGG! NOT ANOTHER YOUTUBE AD!

FACEPALM COMPUTER GUYInternet and computer annoyances

KEEP CALMSLEEP

IN

AND

Keep Calm and Carry On is a catchphrase that originally appeared on a World War II-era British public safety poster. After one of the original posters was recovered and placed in a British bookshop in 2000, the inspirational message was shared online, sparking a series of image macros centered around the phrasal template “Keep Calm and X.”

KEEP CALM…

FONT I USED HERE: CALIBRI

FIRST WORLD PROBLEMSToo privileged to experience actual problems

MY STRAWBERRY CHEESECAKE FLAVORED YOUGHURT

IS MUCH MORE STRAWBERRYTHAN CHEESECAKE

LOLcats

Cute pictures of cats with funny text captions

Captions usually are in lolspeak and words are often misspelled and in poor English

GRUMPY CAT

Captions would be making any situation pessimistic or negative.

nickname given to an angry-looking snowshoe cat that rose to fame online after its pictures were posted to Reddit in late September 2012. The cat is also known as “Tard” which is short for Tardar (Tartar) Sauce.

SPRING IS HERE

SLUSHY, DIRTY, MUDDY YUCKY SPRING.

ALL I SAID WAS…

I DON’T WANT THIS WINTER TO END YET

Saying something seemingly innocent that would spark an angry mob to get you. Caption usually begins with “All I said was…”

TASK 1:You will create memes by captioning the meme images from this power point. You must pick 8. Images will be found in my OUTBOX. You can take them into Pic Monkey, Paint.net or Photoshop to add your text.

NOTE: Outline text option is not available on picmonkey. I can do a quick demo in photoshop to get this effect.

CRITERIA-You must follow the rules of the memes. No random phrases. -Memes MUST be school appropriate! You can be funny without being offensive. Keep it clean people! Rule of thumb, if you have to ask if it is appropriate…it probably isn’t-You must explain your use of humor or parody and how it relates to culture. Also explain how your memes would appeal to a large audience.

Save each meme you create. Insert them into a word document. Under each meme, type your explanation of your creation. Each creation include the explanation of the Why. It is important to know the meaning behind your creation. Analyze it!

TASK 2:Pick three of the memes from this powerpoint and evolve them into a new meme (snowclone them)Example: Use the same caption but with a different picture like the Fry example or the X all the Y meme

CRITERIA-You must follow the rules of the memes. No random phrases. -Memes MUST be school appropriate! You can be funny without being offensive. Keep it clean people! Rule of thumb, if you have to ask if it is appropriate…it probably isn’t-You must explain your use of humor or parody and how it relates to culture. Also explain how your memes would appeal to a large audience.

TASK 3:Using the rules and tips that we have discussed, create 3 original memes. You can use any photos from the internet to create your meme. You can also look up ideas for your meme but don’t just copy what someone else did.Explain why you chose the image(s) and the text to support them

Examples can be: Demotivational posters, LOLcats, Dog shaming, advice animals, take a movie or famous quote and mix it with pop culture(Gandalf flappy bird)

MARKING8 Captions with explanations completed /8

3 snowclones with explanations completed /33 original memes completed with explanations /3

Humor or parody is attempted /2

Memes are original and not just copied from somewhere else /2

Saved in proper format /2(name_ict_memes.doc)

TOTAL /20