Memetic Mutation/Quotes

"You internet types ruined Trogdor! Just like you did zombies, pirates, ninjas and Strong Bad!"

—Strong Bad, Homestar Runner, Trogday '08

"Attention, duelists! My hair has become an internet phenomenon!"

—Kimo, Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series episode 35, "The Tale of Two Tourneys"

"It's just one of those daft things that's so brilliant about the Internet."

—Rick Astley, on his own memetic phenomenon

"That's Cookie Monster! He's why people on the internet say 'nom nom nom.' But we forgive him. This time."

—Jason, Something*Positive

"They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material."

—Remarks of Sen. Ted Stevens before the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee, June 28, 2006

"Memes are what happens when someone decides to try to be funny, and then someone decides it's catchy and repeats it to try to seem cool, in short. Retarded."

—Namedown, MUGEN user

"Oh! Oh- look, it's a barrel! I-it's like, do a barrel roll! I, uh... can't let you do that, Star Fox! I am the Juggernaut bitch Leeroy Jenkins."

—Iruka, "A Brand New Abridged Series!"

"Meme: a term coined by Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene that was originally used to describe packets of cultural information, but subsequently adopted by internet users to refer to inside jokes for people who have no friends with whom to have real inside jokes."

—Wolfram Alpha, taken from Encyclopedia Dramatica

CCT: D --> Do you realize that here in the future, this bulletin has come to be regarded as something of a joke
CCT: DA lengthy piece of comedy, often quoted amongst ourselves in private moments of levity

—Equius sums it up in Hivebent

"Ladies and gentlemen, we have... An Internet Meme!"

—Linkara, referring to "I'm the Goddamn Batman"

Chick: And I dare you to go into a circle of any respectable nerds and say the words "you remind me of the babe" without-
Nella: What babe?
Chick: ...the babe with the power.
Nella: What power?
(the Chick waves her hands in a "see?" gesture)

—The Nostalgia Chick, Labyrinth review

"A man has an idea. The idea attracts others, like-minded. The idea expands. The idea becomes an institution.
[pause]
What was the idea?"

—Top Dollar, The Crow

John Hodgman: [Packets like these] could be anything on the internet. Spam, videos of lonely teens practicing with their lightsabers, comical reimaginings of movie premises -- Brokeback Mountain, for example, cats dressed as nuns eating from dishes of gravy...
Jon Stewart: Or maybe even useful information, or news analysis.
John Hodgman: Well, I guess. In fact...(he passes another envelope to Jon Stewart)...these are all Chuck Norris jokes.

—The Daily Show, Net Neutrality Act.

Oooh, long Johnson! Oooooh, looong John--*get hit by train*

—South Park, "Faith Hilling"

anon1: The thing I learned about /tg/ is that, like /lit/ is with books, nobody on /tg/ actually plays games. They just meme and argue about them.
anon2: /tg/ is better than /lit/ because while /lit/ never writes books, /tg/ does actually crank out a homebrew once and a while.
anon2: Hell, /tv/ at least wrote a porn. /lit/ are the biggest posers.
anon3: /tv/ didn't WRITE a porn, their memes merely inspired one. Not the same thing
anon4: wait really? I thought that was just a meme itself.

— from /tg/ on 4chan

"When your comment section is constantly spammed with shitty memes so you get a different YouTuber on your channel to stop the melon comments but his audience has their own shitty memes too"

—Rashotcake, comment on "Why Music Is So Important to Film (IHE Guest Video)", The Needle Drop

"Great, now I have another sentence on my brain imprinted whenever someone's gonna say it, I'll just immediately go to the meme reaction.
Anyone say "Hey, did you miss?" "HIT OR MISS, AH!"
And if whoever says "Everyone." [falsetto] "I HAVE AN ANNOUNCEMENT TO MAKE!"
Now it's like "I like 'em big" "I LIKE 'EM CHUNKY!""

—PewDiePie, YOU WAS AT THE CLUB (TikTok reactions)

'When it comes to the internet, memeability refers to the canonization of a slogan or idea online.
#MeToo, which gained steam in late 2017 after allegations of sexual misconduct by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, is a positive example, [Jeet] Heer says.
"A negative example might be the appropriation of Pepe the Frog, which was created by a quite good cartoonist, but then was taken over by racists as a kind of symbol of their movement," he added.
"It's an amusing cartoon image, and so people could spread it in a benign way without knowing the purposes to which it was being used."'

—How the N.Z. mosque shooter engineered his attacks to feed the internet's far-right (CBC.ca), showing that Memes Are Not Good

"I watched a man shoot a girl on the street in a first world country, double tap her head to be sure, get in his car and blast Initial D while skrrting over her body and yelling 'SUBSCRIBE TO PEWDIEPIE', all live.
How the fuck is this world even real."

—MehmedIIDidNoWrong on the March 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings in New Zealand, /r/Drama thread

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