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This Kickstarter for Double Fine Adventure’s video game project (link) was huge on Reddit and received over 3.3 million dollars. The “Tropes vs Women” feminist video blog Kickstarter (link) raised over $158,000 after the woman was attacked for starting the pledge page. The LED bike light Kickstarter (link) got over $215,000 after it reached the front page of Reddit (link). Troll Kickstarter project:

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LOL my homeboy Richard Dawkins.

If any of you are going to ROFLCon this weekend, come checkout our panel on Saturday with Blake Boston (Scumbag Steve)! It’s going to be awesome. More info here: http://roflcon.org/2012/05/02/last-but-not-least-know-your-meme-scumbag-steve/

Hey I got this going. Please jump in and add stuff! http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/2012-april-fools-day

LOL Molly bought “Meme Expert”:

Former Know Your Meme community manager Chris Menning recaps the entire first season of Downtown Abbey so you won’t have to watch it yourself! This is the first video he created for his new website Modern Primate.

Hey guys we are trying to get a feel for what people think about the site what words they use to describe certain types of Internet media. If you get a chance, please take a minute to do the survey below: View Survey

Our beloved Internet Scientist Mike Rugnetta has returned to Know Your Meme after completing field work in some of the darkest corners of the Internet and is sharing his findings with us! Check out his latest blog post “The Defensive Internet”, which takes a look at various web community reactions to recent online censorship efforts led by organizations like the MPAA and RIAA.

Every single one of those is fine for an entry :)

An Internet meme is an idea that is propagated through the World Wide Web. The idea may take the form of a hyperlink, video, picture, website, hashtag, or just a word or phrase, such as intentionally misspelling the word “more” as “moar” or “the” as “teh”. The meme may spread from person to person via social networks, blogs, direct email, news sources, or other web-based services. via Wikipedia So according to that definition, a viral video can be a meme. According to Chris Menning’s BuzzFeed post, the...

So after last week’s round of mod level ups we decided to bring on some new mods as well! Entry mods: Platus, MisterJ, TehBrawler Forums: Verbose Image mods: Oclaf, OCtaPuS Congrats guys!

I can get its own entry. Just needs to mention its similarities to Net Noob, Internet Grandma and Technologically Impaired Duck.

Our mods have been kicking ass as usual, so we went ahead and upgraded their titles and mod powers. Brucker, Doc, DPF, Sav and Trick Lobo are now Database Mods with entry, forum, image and video mod powers. Hiroman, RandomMan and Cyber6x are now Sr. Entry Moderators with entry and image mod powers. Thank you for being the most awesome mods on the entire Internet!

Sweet! I can’t wait for the dubstep remix.

Brad, Amanda, James and I maintain the website so we handle the video uploads and front page posts.

This infographic shows some cool Google search tricks: http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/224211-google (click image to enlarge)

Bam! Front paged. Nicely done.

If you could have any 1 feature on KYM in the blink of an eye, no matter how complex, what would it be? What dream meme research tool would you like to have? Have you been playing any Starcraft this week?

+1 confirm