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Memes

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πŸ€₯Meme: hit like and share Wait 3 seconds and watch the magic ^_^

πŸ§β€β™€οΈOcean Elf: Ugh. The anime smilie.

The only thing a "like" will do is show up as a "like" on your own status.

The only thing a share will do is spread the stupid meme.

No magic there at all.

Don't panic. That message about being re-friended, warning you to check your account is a hoax meme. You haven't been hacked and neither were your friends.

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Here is where memes get mangled, or tossed, not merely broken.

Resources Page - research/debunk various memes.

Some of the worst email gaffs

How People Cash In On Stupid Internet Memes

Political propaganda buzzwords and phrases They've actually become memes, or at least, verbal mannerisms.

AuthorsMemes that misquote or steal material from authors

Quotes

Causes/raising awareness Inspirational/motivational quotes and "raising awareness" are memes that don't have the desired effect that people spreading them hope for.

Stupid old hoaxes and worthless dummy news reports that provoke a fit of facepalming because they are either completely useless or so dishonest and stupid that it's embarrassing and maddening when friends/contacts still keep falling for them.

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Meme-mangling

Gender Dreck Feminists love those chain letters about why women are special, men like the gender joke memes.

Islamic Memes

Left--wing Memes

Dealive - AKA "Re-share or be killed/face the consequences!" memes

Fluff And Nonsense Jokes, tests and surveys about minutia, weird factoids (not facts), brain teasers, even a meme full of excuses fr spreading this fluff.

Hogwash From death threat chain letters to pants on fire re-shares about social network accounts and beyond.

Meme Kids From "Forward or die!" to sick kid hoaxes and anything to do with kids in memes.

MushAnything from cheesy to maudlin goes here.

Holiday Memes when memes crash your holiday fun and make you want to throw furniture instead of parties.

Micro-holiday/Lolidays/Hahadays Those annoying fake nothing days some people celebrate - Talk Like A Pirate Day, Cupcake Day etc.

Two sites that actually manage to keep track of these holiday memes are:

Days Of The Year

National Day Calendar

Creepy pastas (corruption of 'copy paste' (yep, memes)... These are memes with a horror bent. Sort of campfire tale and chain letter all wrapped into 1.

Some of the most popular/notorious are:

Slender Man

AKA "Slendy".

Jeff The Killer

Jane The Killer

They have their fandoms, and with fiction fandoms, there is fan fiction, which means there are characters known as:

Mary Sue

Anime

My Little Pony

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