I support the Occupation, but I can still make fun of it because I’m postmodern like that. Occupy Sesame Street (there are lots more pics) started a meme of occupying other fictional places.

One problem with this meme is that a lot of people seem to be confused about the 1%/99% thing. In real world America, the top 1% wealthiest people own 40% of the wealth, leaving 60% for the 99%. Many memes (such as the Cookie Monster one linked to above) say “1% of X own %99 of Y”, which irks me so I haven’t included them. A great example of one that doesn’t:

Some memes from fiction, which you’ll only get if you’re familiar with the source material (for some reason I only ever see them with small resolution):





I’m still looking for a good one for Occupy Coruscant.

This post was titled after this sign:

Now I’m just as against cultural appropriation as the next guy, but when Students Teaching About Racism At Ohio State University (STARAOSU) made some posters about culturally insensitive Halloween costumes, a great meme was born:

You can get these by digging through WW, but I’m posting this in the hopes you’ll watch until you get to the “quinoa” rhyme.

LOVING White Whine via Jill’s FB. Finally someone did Stuff White People Like right…

Via BoingBoing, an excellent Star Wars satire of the US War on Terror in the form of a news story: “Obi-Wan Kenobi is Dead, Vader Says“. Many of the comments cleverly continue the joke.

I would like to see more Internet artefacts from other worlds. If I had the creative skill, I would be writing fake Wikipedia articles and calling it art.

Juniper told me about the flower girl who has become a meme:

She doesn’t like noise:

And I don’t understand this, but it’s cool:

Kyla told me how Kate Middleton is shedding her commoner roots:

As I mentioned in my post on the rise of Tumblr humour, Alison and Stewart introduced me to this blog that doesn’t really have that much to do with hipsters as I’d describe them. It’s photos taken from interior design magazines like Wallpaper* and Dwell with bitingly-satirical captions. They’ve gotten particularly funny lately, so I thought I’d turn some of my favourites into image macros and share them:

* The asterisk stands for pretentious!

Tumblr is what I’d call a miniblogging platform = multimedia-enhanced microblogs (like Twitter). It’s designed for short blog posts of text with a link, a photo, an audio clip or a video. I haven’t actually used it, but I’d recommend you check it out if you want to publicly post your photos or stuff you find around the web (remember when “blog” was short for “weblog”?). Tumblr is the hot platform of the moment for online humour.

Two of the biggest Tumblr blogs are conceptual political humour: Kim Jong-Il Looking at Things and Uncomfortable Moments with Putin. Their brilliance unfolds by looking at posts in series; I’ll quote this cross-over even though it won’t make much sense:

The two leaders laughed awkwardly at Putin’s suggestion of a blog called ‘Uncomfortable Moments with Putin Looking at Kim Jong-Il Looking at Putin’.

Alison turned me on to Unhappy Hipsters, which adds mocking captions to photos from architecture and interior design magazines; eg:

To break free from the tedium of her own cliche—that was her Christmas wish.

The other Tumblr blog I’ve really been enjoying is Fuck Yeah Dementia (obviously questionable for work). It posts the best of 4chan macros (especially NSFW), lolcats, animated GIFs and other visual nonsense. (I’ve spent hours trapped in the infinite scrolling thumbnail archive.)

The future is blogs that aggregate blogs that aggregate blogs, all the way down. And when they feature humour objects, it makes me feel like I’m going insane, but in a funny way.