If someone thinks that memes are a new fad, purely connected with the Internet, this is a fallacy. The information units used to briefly convey the complex totality of the description of the phenomenon and the emotional attitude to this phenomenon have been widely used before. Some popular memes are used as a household name in oral speech, without visual reinforcement by a picture on the Internet. You can condemn such a sharp invasion of memetics in everyday life, but you should not deny the unconditional ergonomics of the phenomenon, because in a word or a short phrase of a meme you can convey a whole bunch of emotions, expressions and your own attitude.
Popular meme: the shortest way to express an opinion
Widespread expressive photographs with original signatures, frames from famous films, painted characters - anything can become a visualization of a meme. Now popular memes are associated specifically with films, and here is an approximate list of world-famous information units:
- Boromir:
- Charles;
- Robert Downey Jr.
- Leonardo DiCaprio;
- Grumpy cat;
- smile dog;
- lemur "uzbagoin";
- nicosi, lolshto, orly and other memes.
Memes are good in that they can be adapted to almost any situation, just take a template and sign the accompanying text. For this, there are many memo generators on the network, you can also use the sites for creating demotivators.
You can’t just take it and not remember Boromir
This is probably the most popular meme since the triumphant release on the screens of the epic "The Lord of the Rings." The film was quickly dismantled into quotes, expressive characters attributed to all sorts of witty sayings. However, Boromir easily bypassed the main characters with his unique facial expressions at the moment when at a meeting with Elrond he said that you can’t just go and take the ring to Mordor.
Like other popular memes, Boromir with his phrase “You Can’t Take It So Easy” 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 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 in the form of slicing frames compiled into a short comic book. This is the moment from the series The Walking Dead. According to the plot, there is actually a tragic moment - the main character, Rick, finds out that his wife died during a difficult birth, and her son Karl had to finish her off to prevent his mother from becoming a walking dead. The actor’s facial expressions are so expressive that the creators of memes could not resist.
In a networked interpretation, Rick reads a notation to Carl, looking into his face, repeating his name from time to time. “We did not have video consoles, we played with sticks in the yard! With sticks, Karl! ” Like some other popular memes, Karl quickly burst out of the Internet. Now this expressive exclamation "Karl!" can be seen on billboards, heard in emotional stories. It is enough to insert the meme “Karl!” At the end of the stormy story, only four letters replace a whole emotional block such as “no, well, just imagine, I'm just shocked, indignant, Lord, you just think about it!”.
Robert Downey Jr., Leonardo DiCaprio and other stars
To create a popular meme? little desire, an expressive visual accent is required, and here the movie stars give an excellent opportunity. Robert Downey Jr rolling his eyes became a meme just the day after the Avengers premiere, as did his character Tony Stark in a triumphant pose.
Leonardo DiCaprio has become the face of a series of different memes, from the shot with a glass of champagne from the movie The Great Gatsby to the recently shot Survivor. The Oscar film award ceremony, where he finally got the coveted figurine after so many unfulfilled nominations, also went into the category of memes. “Like DiCaprio for the Oscars is a replicated comparison, they say something extremely desirable, but invariably elusive.
Nicolas Cage with facial expressions of a crazy maniac has his fans. Leonid with his "This is Sparta!" also collected a rich harvest of memes, demotivators, cobs and photojabs. Anyone can become a meme hero at any time.
Memes with animals
Animals are probably the most popular Internet memes, of which Grumpy Cat has become the undisputed star. The cat has such a gloomy expression on his face that he quickly gained frenzied success and became the hero of the sarcastic meme “Unrestrained Fun” and thousands of other interpretations.
Dog facial expressions have a huge number of expressions, especially charming smiles that these charming four-legged are capable of. Therefore, the “smile dog” is an extensive meme that is not tied to any particular dog. So now they call any dog who lit up in the frame with a characteristic smile. Moreover, the “smile dog” also left the Internet and migrated to everyday speech.
An unflappable lemur with advice to calm down on a broken Internet slang is known as "Uzbagoysya". On this meme even a comic song appeared, and the advice “to be Uzbek” can be heard just on the street.
Memes Emotions
Equally popular Internet memes are hand-drawn emotions. People are depicted schematically, but with vivid facial expressions. By and large? such memes are used as emoticons, and to some extent they express emotions more effectively than the neat creations of designers developing new emoticons. The last marketing move of the well-known social network “Vkontakte” is a sticker-sticker “nosos!” That literally conveys the emotion of extreme amazement. Oddly enough, the move turned out to be winning, “don’t!” quickly crawled along the runet and new memes are already forming on their basis.