The "Couple Costume Idea" meme has stemmed from both the mass of couples scrounging the internet for couples' costume ideas and users who post serious couples' costume ideas. Instead of providing couples with clever Halloween costumes, these memes chose vines that have two elements that can be allocated to each person in the couple. I love this meme, especially around Halloween season. It deserves an 8.3 because the opportunities are endless.
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I know I already covered this meme, but it ceases to entertain me and has grown even more popular since my past post. To reinterpret this meme, a common occurrence is staged as a versus type of outline. I love this meme and up its rating to 9.9.
After parents began finding dangerous objects in their children's candy, they started posting pictures with captions that warned parents about the contents of their child's Halloween candy. Per usual, the meme side of the internet parodied these posts and made the "dangerous items" into outrageous objects that one would notice if their child received while Trick-or-Treating. I love a spicy meme that makes fun of suburban moms, so this meme receives an 8.7 from me.
The “Pumpkin Dance” segment first aired on Omaha, Nebraska’s local news station KXVO during a 10 PM news broadcast on Halloween, October 31st, 2006. Without explanation, a man in a black unitard and a pumpkin mask was shown dancing to the Ghostbusters theme song in front of a graveyard backdrop. On November 2nd, the clip was uploaded to KXVO’s official YouTube channel, where it has received more than 3.1 million views as of October 2015. My question is "Why?" What possessed this man to put on a black body suit and pumpkin mask? This video has now been made into several memes. I give these memes a 7.1 because although it has enticing appeal, the meme itself is getting old.
This phenomena is not a meme but a honorable mention. On May 2nd, 2017, Sunny Co. Clothing posted an image and the details of a promotion to their Instagram account. To receive a free swimsuit, one must repost the image and tag the company. The post was a huge success, gaining over 339,000 likes on Instagram. On the other side of this campaigning, however, were the poor chaps who had their social media feeds choked with these posts. School friends, families, and celebrities were all posting this picture in effort to receive a free swimsuit from Sunny Co. Clothing. To this day, no one knows how the company plans to produce enough suits for the participants.
The Snowman is a new horror movie featuring a serial killer who attaches the heads of his victims to snowmen. While the concept of the movie may be a tad comical, the advertising for it takes the cake. Snowmen posters read:
"MISTER POLICE I GAVE YOU ALL THE CLUES YOU COULD HAVE SAVED HER" and is garnished with a stick figure snowman at the bottom. Several people are enjoying the posters and creating memes from them. I give this meme a 4.3 because I do not entirely enjoy it and it will pass with the movie. So much can be said about Pepe the Frog. He is one of the OG memes of our generation. In 2005, Matt Furie introduced Pepe the Frog in his comic Boys Club. Since then, Pepe has taken several forms-- not all of them good. This meme was utilized for dank memes up until 2014 when it was officially declared a hate symbol. Several Anti-Semitic organizations adopted Pepe as their symbol and made manipulations to his original form according to their agenda. People were outraged and Pepe is now regarded as a hate symbol. What is happening to our world? How can memes be taken to the dark side along with everything else? Before the controversy erupted, there were specific categories of Pepe including Angry Pepe, Sad Pepe, Rare Pepe, and Feelin' Good Man Pepe. I give Pepe a 9.8 and not for white supremacist reasons. I have loved Pepe through his good times and bad, my favorite variation being Angry Pepe.
On October 2nd, 2017, Complex Magazine posted a video in which Bella Hadid met with video host Joe La Puma at sneaker store Kith in New York City. The video was very awkward the throughout. Bella Hadid is sluggish in her speech and mumbles her opinions. Just like always, people of the internet quickly parodied the video. I viewed the video myself and the claims were true-- I cringed the entire time. I give this meme a 4.5 because it's a fad meme and it will not stick around for much longer.
Thomas the Train Engine is (or was) a popular kids television show that has been parodied several times. The reason for this is the ridiculous stop motion sets and props that the creators use. The engine faces are borderline terrifying and the people props are too simple. The show's theme song has been paired with trap music and other "sick beats" several times; most variations are "fire." The most common meme used from Thomas is "It was time for Thomas to leave. He had seen everything." Personally, I love Thomas memes because they recall good memories from my childhood. On that note, I give Thomas the Train Engine memes in general a 8.3.
Although I am often referred to as the "meme queen," not even I can explain this meme. This meme consists of various pictures of a monkey getting a trim-- odd, I know. Another meme has surfaced with this one and it is a picture of a man in a pink dress shirt cracking his knuckles while posing for a picture. These two memes mixed together are the most common creations present on any site; however, several other adaptations exist. I give these two memes a combined rating of 13.6 out of 20. The memes do not meet the description for an outrageous meme so therefore it identifies as a bad meme, but some of the creations have redeeming qualities.
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