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Know Your Meme was created in December 2007 as a series of videos which were part of the vlog Rocketboom. It was founded by employees Kenyatta Cheese, Elspeth Rountree and Jamie Wilkinson , and Rocketboom CEO Andrew Baron in their spare time, when host Joanne Colan could not finish the current season of Rocketboom . [ 3 ]
The phenomenon of dank memes sprouted a subculture called the "meme market", satirising Wall Street and applying the associated jargon (such as "stocks") to internet memes. Originally started on Reddit as /r/MemeEconomy, users jokingly "buy" or "sell" shares in a meme reflecting opinion on its potential popularity.
The phrase "I know it when I see it" was used in 1964 by United States Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart to describe his threshold test for obscenity in Jacobellis v. Ohio . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In explaining why the material at issue in the case was not obscene under the Roth test , and therefore was protected speech that could not be censored ...
A meme (/ m iː m / ⓘ; MEEM) [1] [2] [3] is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme. [4]
[6] [9] In these memes, to "fall out of a coconut tree" typically means that one lacks awareness of one's surroundings, akin to the phrase "living under a rock". [10] The New York Times reported that enthusiasm for Harris and the coconut tree meme was driving a Washington-area surge in demand for piña coladas. [10]
The Melania meme coin, like the Trump coin, is issued on the Solana blockchain platform. About 450,000 buyers currently hold the Melania coin, according to the SolScan tracker , which tracks the ...
"All your base are belong to us" is an Internet meme based on a poorly translated phrase from the opening cutscene of the Japanese video game Zero Wing. The phrase first appeared on the European release of the 1991 Sega Mega Drive / Genesis port of the 1989 Japanese arcade game .
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