Homestar runner (2000)

Dammit I Awesome, I was this close to doing an article about this. Oh well, it’s a good article.

I like homestarrunner as much as the next guy..but is it really a mem?

I think so, I search around and saw what they had for fanmade creations, people dressing up like characters, etc. The only thing I don’t know is if this is too “niche” to enter the DB.

This isn’t really a meme. This is more like a ‘show’ with ‘merchandising’ that people buy to keep the animators in business.

“Milhouse is not a meme.” Just because people are into it doesn’t qualify it for meme-dom.

The article was a bit misleading. It stated that the Chapman bros took the character from a storybook. They actually first created the storybook, then the web series.

I’m not a big fan of calling a popular series a meme. I mostly associate unintentional stardom with memedom. But most webseries are very intent on promoting themselves. If anything, I would say this entry should be revised to focus on solely the fan-art and other things that have been influenced by Homestar Runner, rather than the Homestar Runner commercial property.

Actually, it was unintentional, they never advertised their site, they became popular through word of mouth.
Perhaps I should do an article on Trogdor, as he is very popular.

Word of mouth is definitely impressive. I guess I’m still stuck on feeling the need to make a distinction between a series that is produced by a few people vs. memetic content that is created by masses of internet users.

deffinate meme. every other time i go on a chan i see a few images of homestarrunner.
i remember when i first saw homestarrunner.com 5 and a half years ago.

HOMSAR FTW

I don’t really think Homestar Runner is a meme, it’s just an awesome cartoon.

The search trend could be erroneous in terms of popularity, as people probably navigate to the site itself nowadays… if you know the site, you won’t search for it.

I think Homestarrunner started out as a meme. However recently it has hit mainstream (such as being for the Wii) and is no longer a meme and now media.

It’s not a TV show like Southpark though, so it is pretty much exclusive to the internet. Southpark, by the way, used to be a meme.

Not a meme. But deserves more recognition and respect.

I agree with everyone
who says this is not a Meme,
yet it is one AWSOME
website

Visiting homestarrunner is inversely proportional to your GPA.

There WAS a thing with the cheat that had a Pikachu flying across the screen in the background. I forgot where it was but it was weird….

Yay! more pictures!

So sad it’s starting to go down in popularity :[

I LOVE H*R!!
THIS IS AMAZING I’M BUYIN’ YOU A PIZZA!