morainium

Now he’s becoming part of Verizon’s argument against net neutrality:

http://colorlines.com/archives/2010/08/verizon_uses_bed_intruder_in_case_against_net_neutrality.html

Never has there been a clearer connection established between Internet memes and the merchant marines than with that picture.

Lobster Dog appreciates your compliment, though his expression may not indicate it.

And to further clarify, your entry is a thorough and helpful attempt at demonstrating significance, but I’d encourage you to consider yatta’s 6-point checklist for entries:

1) Viral Spread: search results, social media mentions, forum posts, route of spread.
2) Point of Origin: Find out where the meme first appeared and provide proof that it spread beyond its original subculture.
3) Derivatives/instances: Existing volume of spoofs, mashups, remixes, parodies, recontextualizations, and re-enactments. Is it mutating?
4) Appearance in Memetic Hubs: Websites and communities that have been made famous for spreading and culturing memes.
5) Organic / Forced Memes: Was the meme spread peer to peer or was it astroturfed? Even astroturfed phenomena can become memes.
6) Spin-offs / Sub-memes (Optional): Many memes spawn entire trees of sub-memes.

You’ve done good work with 1, 2 and 5 but we’re missing 3 and 4 right now. Demonstrate those and I think you’ve got a much stronger case.

Morton Morton, I think this shows some significant promise, and the international angle is definitely appealing. What’s holding this back right now is a typical issue with new submissions: viral v. memetic. Not denying the spread here, and Google insights seems to support what you described (http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=max%20berliner&cmpt=q), but it’d be helpful to see a demonstration of imitation and mutation beyond hashtags and retweets.

I’m down for researching this one some more (and for helping with some edits).

BuzzFeed had some coverage of it 3 days ago:

“7 Reasons High Expectations Asian Father is Disappoint”

Of note here in the responses, where several members seemed to relate to the message, including those with non-Asian parents.

Memegenerator is a perpetual derivative machine, but HEAF has popped up to Top Tier, alongside HNNNGGGG and other existing KYM Top Tier Advice Dog spin-offs like Technologically Impaired Duck (which got bumped down from Demi-God) and Rich Raven.

So, +1 for seeing where it goes, and +infinity for hoping Memegenerator stops cranking these out sometime soon.