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hello gents and ladies,

possibly a new meme in the works. doing a titanic theme, and I'm going to see what comes up. I'd love for you all to participate. I'm starting with a twitter personality and then going from there.

I've posted it on digg. Please, digg the article, and I'd love for you to follow me in my shenanigans.

http://digg.com/comedy/Captain_of_RMS_Titanic_set_sails_on_Twitter

Knowyourmeme= Document existing memes, not "creating them."

Sorry, we're not the right community to help you. :/

I appreciate your response.

Titanic has been, arguably, a meme in the past. Fail boat, many GMod machinimas of the Titanic scene, and obviously loads of people have turne the "I'm flying jack" scene on it's head.

It's just something I'm trying out. I'm sure many others in this forum have created, or at least tried to create [or consolidate in my case] a meme. Hope yall join in!

Edit

Moving thread to a different section. Thanks again

Hey there,

It looks like you're trying to create your own meme.

Know Your Meme is actually a site for documenting existing internet phenomena, and examining how and why they grow like they do. It's sort of a field manual to Internet memes in the wild.

The meme database is for documentation but is not a promotional tool.

For what you're trying to do, you might want to try submitting your creations to Buzzfeed, Digg, Reddit, or spreading them through whatever online communities you frequent.

Your Titanic Twitter account could amount to something, but trying to jump-start it within the KYM community is just not something that we do.

In regard to documenting the Titanic as a meme:

The titanic is a meme, sure, but calling it an internet phenomenon would be a huge oversight.

The sinking of the titanic, its media coverage throughout history, all of fiction that has referenced it, and the way that the word has become an aphorism for monumental failures are all things that occurred before the internet.

@omgbbq – doing an image search on "im flying jack" shows a photos of people recreating the scene, so I think you're onto something. Recreating a famous scene is definately a type of meme, as evidenced by roller coaster chess. The question you need to answer is whether "I'm flying jack" has been spread on the net so much that inspiration for doing it comes more from encounters with it on image boards and the like, than from individuals independently copying the scene from the movie without being influenced by other like minded individuals on the net. After-all, this is an archive for internet meme archive after all, not a photo-cliche archive.

Internet meme website: http://cheezburger.com/TemplateView.aspx?tiid=316442

Photo cliche website: http://www.photocliches.com/2008/12/im-flying-jack-im-really-flying.html

Titanic? In my memes?(It's more likely than you think.)