If anyone thinks that memes are a new internet-only craze, that's a delusion. Information units used to briefly convey a complex set of descriptions of a phenomenon and an emotional attitude to this phenomenon were widely used before. Some popular memes are used as common nouns in spoken language, without visual reinforcement with a picture on the Internet. One can blame such a sharp intrusion of memetics into everyday life, but one should not deny the unconditional ergonomics of the phenomenon, because one word or a short phrase of a meme can convey a whole bunch of emotions, expressions and one's own attitude.
Popular meme: the shortest way to express an opinion
Replicated expressive photographs with original captions, frames from famous films, cartoon characters - anything can become a visualization of a meme. Now popular memes are associated with films, and here is a rough list of world-famous information units:
- Boromir:
- Carl;
- Robert Downey Jr;
- Leonardo DiCaprio;
- Grumpy Cat;
- smiling dog;
- lemur "uzbagoin";
- nichosi, lolshto, orly and other memes.
Memes are good because they can be adapted to almost any situation, just take a template and sign the accompanying text. To do this, there are many meme generators on the network, you can also use sites to create demotivators.
You can't just take it and not remember Boromir
Probably the most popular meme since the triumphant release of the film epic The Lord of the Rings. The film was quickly dismantled into quotes, all sorts of witty sayings are attributed to the expressive characters. However, the main characters were easily bypassed by Boromir with his unique facial expressions at the moment when, at a meeting with Elrond, he says that you can’t just go and take the ring to Mordor.
Like other popular memes, Boromir with his phrase "you can't just take it" is international. There are many examples on the Internet with texts in different languages, including Russian. “You can’t just leave your grandmother without eating”, “you can’t just take it and stop the argument” and other options, from witty to frankly banal, but topical.
We lived without memes, Carl
Another contender for the title of "most popular meme" often appears as cuts of frames compiled into a short comic. This is a scene from The Walking Dead. According to the plot, a tragic moment actually happens here - the main character, Rick, finds out that his wife died during a difficult birth, and his son Carl had to finish her off in order to prevent the transformationmothers into the walking dead. The actor's facial expressions are so expressive that the creators of the memes could not resist.
In the online interpretation, Rick lectures Carl, looking into his face, repeating his name from time to time. “We didn’t have video consoles, we played with sticks in the yard! With sticks, Karl! Like some other popular memes, "Karl" quickly spilled over the internet. Now this expressive exclamation "Karl!" seen on billboards, heard in emotional stories. It is enough to insert the “Karl!” meme at the end of a stormy story, just four letters replace a whole emotional block like “no, just imagine, but I’m just in shock, outraged, God, just think about it!”.
Robert Downey Jr, Leonardo DiCaprio and other stars
To create a popular meme? there is little desire, an expressive visual accent is required, and here movie stars provide an excellent opportunity. Robert Downey Jr. rolling his eyes became a meme the day after the premiere of The Avengers, as did his character Tony Stark in a triumphant pose.
Leonardo DiCaprio has become the face of a whole series of different memes, from the shot with a glass of champagne from the movie "The Great Gatsby" to the recently filmed "Survivor". The Oscar ceremony, where he finally got the coveted statuette after so many failed nominations, also moved into the category of memes. “Like DiCaprio for the Oscars - a replicated comparison, they talk about something extremelydesired, but always elusive.
Nicolas Cage with the facial expressions of a crazy maniac has his fans. Leonidas with his "This is Sparta!" also collected a rich harvest of memes, demotivators, koubs and fotozhabs. Anyone can become the hero of a meme at any time.
Animal memes
Animals are probably the most popular memes on the Internet, with Grumpy Cat being the undisputed star. The cat has such a grim expression that it quickly became a wild success and became the subject of the sarcastic meme "Rampant Joy" and thousands of other interpretations.
Doggy facial expressions have a huge number of expressions, the smiles that these charming four-legged are capable of are especially charming. Therefore, the “smiling dog” is an extensive meme, not tied to any particular dog. So now they call any dog that lit up in the frame with a characteristic smile. Moreover, the "smiling dog" also left the Internet and migrated to everyday speech.
The unflappable lemur with the advice to calm down in broken internet slang is known as "Fuck out". According to this meme, there was even a comic song, and the advice to “get ugly” can be heard just on the street.
Emotion memes
No less popular Internet memes are drawn emotions. Little people are depicted schematically, but with bright facial expressions. By and large? such memes are used as emoticons, and to some extent they express emotions more effectively than neat creationsdesigners developing new emoticons. The latest marketing ploy of the well-known social network VKontakte is the emoticon sticker “Nichosi!”, literally conveying the emotion of extreme amazement. Oddly enough, the move turned out to be winning, “no shit!” quickly spread across the Russian Internet and new memes are already being formed on their basis.
