These videos memes will be haunting YouTube with ever more frequency, so prepare yourself to be entertained and/or annoyed every time you check your email.
5. Pancakes!
This pancake-mixing freak spent several weekends scooting ingredients around his kitchen counter, but it was worth the effort. His video (and follow-up Pancakes II) has been watched by millions and copied over and over again.
Other examples of the Pancakes! meme:
- Pancakes! Sims style
- Pizza!
- Ramen (appropriately set to the A-Team theme song)
4. “Crank That” Ballerina
On July 22, 2007, the “flying superman” movement in the Crank That dance caught the attention of a nine year old ballet student in Kansas City, Missouri. She showed her best friend the next day in ballet class and the meme spread across the country in under three hours.
Obviously performed while their terror-inducing instructors are out of earshot, “Crank That” Ballerina is almost popular enough for Good Morning America to have it performed under freezing conditions in Times Square.
Other “Crank That” Ballerinas:
Unfortunately, in a filing with the Los Angeles Superior Court, Soulja Boy’s attorneys have successfully blocked Listgasm’s efforts to post any more examples of this meme.
3. Colin’s Bear Animation
Colin (last name unknown) took an Animation Arts course at UOIT that failed to fulfill his lofty educational goals. For his final assignment, he rendered up an absolutely horrible example of all that he learned in class. A fellow student identified the memetic potential of Colin’s Bear Animation video and uploaded it to YouTube.
The rest is history.
Other instances of the Colin’s Bear meme:
- You Just Got Rick Bear Rolled!
- Ted’s Bear Animation Tribute
- Colin’s Bear Is F***ing Over (set to mind-splitting hardstyle techno)
2. Message to Scientology and Scientology Raid
Obviously this is a highly sensitive topic, complicated by the fact that the same attorneys who represent Soulja Boy (in the legal sense) also represent the Church of Scientology. We’ll do our best to survive the onslaught of court filings and (far worse) messages of support from the Digg community.
In the spirit of the sort of video transmission we’ve come to expect from an alien civilization, a group of hackers named “Anonymous” has declared war on Scientology.
A second (and closely related) meme is the Scientology Raid, which appears to be protests and hactivism tageting COS locations.
Message to Scientology and Scientology Raid have both inspired many humorous (and serious) videos to be uploaded in response.
Other examples of these memes:
Unfortunately, in a filing with the The European Court of Human Rights, Tom Cruise has successfully blocked Listgasm’s efforts to post any more examples of these memes.
1. Tribute to Mr. Recession
As we stand on the precipice of the great recession, YouTube enthusiasts have been creating visceral expressions of what went wrong. Not to be confused with the videos of wannabe economists spewing on and on about the recession from their dimly-lit living rooms, recession tributes are a humorously tragic remixing of business imagery, CNBC footage, and music.
Obviously, the producers at CNBC failed to recognize the demand for recessionary self-pity, and we now turn to YouTube to collectively mourn our lost future.
A few more depressing tributes:
- Economic Meltdown!
- Housing Bubble vs. Great Depression
- Goodbye Housing Bubble
- TELL ME CAN YOU FEEL IT!
- Morbo on the Housing Bubble
- Britney Spears explains the subprime Housing Bubble Crash
Really, this is all too much. I’m giving up now.
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