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I'm a freaking Jr. Memeticist!!! I've been waiting for some kind of ranking system on here!

btw, how does the ranking system work?

sr. researcher?

SHUT.

DOWN.

EVERYTHING.

A bunch of names were made up at random, and then assigned as different ranks based on the number of contributions, with Tikibar being the highest at the moment.

You like achievements. We know this. Man.

What about Tikibar admin? Can we reach that, or do we just stop at plain ol' tikibar?

Admins are hand-picked. You can't really earn your way up to it. When we need more admins, we select them based on their knowledge.

At first only Rocketboom Staff were admins, but we've come across a couple of individuals who knew their stuff well enough that we decided to make them admins.

I think once you get >1000000 contributions you get to be called Camaro Leonard.

Well I better get started! Are you an original admin, Chris?

Chris is.

But I'd like to know who else was hand-picked for administrative duties.

Yup. I started out as one of the writers for Rocketboom's news series, Know Your Meme videos, and Rocketboom Blog last year. At the time Know Your Meme was a wiki, and I didn't really have much to do much with it. When the new site launched in January I was one of the first admins. I still have various duties within Rocketboom, but with how fast Know Your Meme has grown, I find myself dedicated the lion's share of my time to this site.

Is this your job? Seems like a ton of work for a hobby!

@Capn', yeah, I've always wondered about all the admins. How many there are and which are the original?

Technically I'm a freelancer with lot of jobs. But Rocketboom is my main one.

Sweet. Does the guy who started KYM have an account?

Oh, there are many guys (and a few girls) behind this website.

Rocketboom was started in 2004 by Andrew Baron, and he's still the main force behind all of Rocketboom's projects, but he's very behind-the-scenes over here. He's got conferences and businessy things to take care of.
https://knowyourmeme.com/users/5-andrew-baron

The Know Your Meme series is the brainchild of Jamie Dubs, Elspeth Jane, and Yatta
https://knowyourmeme.com/users/1-jamie-dubs

https://knowyourmeme.com/users/6-yatta

https://knowyourmeme.com/users/93-ellie-rountree

Together, the three of them are the Internet Scientists you see in the videos. Also, each of them has tons going on beyond this site.

And there's Greg Leuch, designer/programmer/developer etc. Basically, he's the main guy that not only makes sure all of Rocketboom's sites work, but look cool in the process.
https://knowyourmeme.com/users/30-greg-leuch

And Brad Kim is another admin, but I'm not sure what else he does within Rocketboom. But he and I collaborate with the rest of the staff in much of the writing for episodes.

And there are a whole slew of other extremely talented people involved in the various things that Rocketboom cooks up, but I'm not sure if they're admins on this site.

Two other admins I know of. I think they are interns for Rocketboom but I could be wrong.

https://knowyourmeme.com/users/946-hellolittlefish

https://knowyourmeme.com/users/836-jimi-heffernan

Then there's me.

I do the majority of the ass-kicking and name-taking around these parts.

^ Ever head the quote from Duke Nukem, "Time to kick ass and chew bubble gum, too bad I'm all outa gum!"

O hai guize! Yes, Capt. Blubber, I am an intern!

I mostly do design work for KYM; I've designed the shirts and some number of store graphics…so I mostly use this place for reference, rather than participate. Though I'm starting to get into that now :) Maybe when I'm a big girl, I'll pen a few articles? :P

Hey Olivia, I got my shirt yesterday. I love it!

Olivia, you make awesome shirts!

Yes, very impressed with your work!

thanks guys :D

But how many fancypants ranks are there? I've noticed a forrealz "Gold Membership" :OO

I think admin is a pretty kool guy, eh submits teh memes and doesn't afraid of anything.

Perhaps I should introduce myself again as well. I am interning with Rocketboom as a writer, mainly working on KYM database entries but also contributing to the episode scripts!

The episodes are awesome! You guys do a great job on those! Even people who have no idea what you are talking about think that they're funny!

We rolled out upgrades over the weekend, now at MemeDB 1.5 codename "BUBBRUBB"… more user ranking stuff to come, among many other things ;) Internet science does not sleep

More info to come soon!

It's like waiting for Christmas!!!