1) Formulaic, repetitive, and unoriginal articles that attempt to invoke humor, wit, and edginess while actually possessing none of those things.

10) "best/worst/most/least/biggest/amazing" lists by techno-peasant media types who still think the internet is "newfangled".

FTFA

"the aural equivalent of pubic lice"
"similar to having feces injected directly into your eardrums"
"until they beg for the eternal silence of death"
"we hate to keep using the pubic lice analogy"


They're trying too hard to be funny.

Regarding Hampster Dance: The popularity of the site remained blissfully small until January 1999, when it inexplicably shot up from around 4 hits a day to 15,000 thanks to a campaign of emails, early blogs, bumper stickers and what must have been a worldwide drop in taste and sanity.

"Inexplicably" now means "as a result of being featured prominently in Earthlink's nation-wide television advertising campaign"?

No one is forcing you to be on the internet. If you don't like these things, don't watch them.

No badger badger badger?

You get the sense this guy's just bitter he hasn't created an internet sensation, cashed in, and gotten near-instant fame and fortune...

I loathe that little dancing banana, just for the record

Chariset: I loathe that little dancing banana, just for the record

In regards to the Chuck Norris one:

Then, in a turn of events almost too absurd even for politics, Norris campaigned for presidential candidate Mike Huckabee ... based purely around the premise that he had the magical powers claimed in the facts.

I must have missed that part in real life.

but but but
I liked the numa guy
for some insane reason

and how can you not love hampster dance
(and want to kill yourself 2 mins into it?)

/sigh

I only knew about 2 of those memes, which means, thankfully, I have not succumbed to the need to fight against atomization.

Only one I didn't know about was the Chinese guys. Rick-rolling definitely wins though.

No ha-ha?

That list = failure.

No mention of lolcats, so it is a fail.

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/Obligatory ~desu

They did not dare to invoke the name of the almighty Technoviking

No crazy frog?

/DRTFA

The fact that I'd only heard of 3 of those has made me feel much better about my life.

I came in looking for the poor man's Mad Magazine? What happened?

Ok, the "trying too hard" part of the commentary aside, that list is spot-on. Those things are annoying.

Chuck Norris created the Hamster Dance site.

The original rick roll ... gootse was off the list. By *far* the most obnoxious internet meme.

/writers are young, I think

Mad Scientist:
/DRTFA

obviously

I can haz overused meme?

Mad Scientist
No crazy frog?

/DRTFA

Next time RTFA before you say "No crazy frog".

simpsonfan: Chuck Norris created the Hamster Dance site.

Chuck Norris sucks dick for cab fare and then walks home

/ an attempt to undo that particular meme

I, Luckily, only heard/saw about two or three of those... i have no frickin' idea what the rest are about,[**wooooosh** over head] and don't really care.

/ i, for one, like the HA HA guy.

So thats where 'All your base.." came from. I always thought a terrorist may have said it in a 'leaked' message.

I love how this is right above a Caturday link.

This article has the aural equivalent of pubic lice and similar to having feces injected directly into your eardrums
Reading it will have you begging for the eternal silence of death.
I hate to keep using the pubic lice analogy, but this article HAS the aural equivalent of pubic lice with feces injected directly into their eardrums (assuming lice have eardrums).

/I can has online journalism career naow???
//That would have me begging for the eternal silence of death...

No chocolate rain?

I'd always hoped Steve Guttenberg Facts (new window) would catch on.

Ring-Ring-Ring-Ring-Ring-Ring-Ring Bananna Phone!!!

Sucks when you get that stuck in your head...

I haven't heard of half of those, thank goodness.

/knows a kid who rickrolled his school

No mention of the fact that half of Chuck Norris facts are rip-offs of Bill Brasky?

Brasky framed Roger Rabbit AND breastfeeds John Madden

seminole87: In Soviet China the memes meme YOU!!!

Ah Ha Ha Ha Ha!!!

/facepalm

Man when did Cracked start sucking? Oh yeah, it always sucked.

Lol I forgot all about Fark and the Mets thing with Rick Astley.

The Chuck Norris ones are the worst because they are a direct rip off off the Bill Bradsky sketch from SNL. And since SNL is almost never funny, it's and even worse insult.

Say what you want about the "all your base" meme, it had me rolling on the floor when I first saw it.

None of these are as obnoxious as people who complain about memes and cliches. Not even close.

Kei Seiteki Jin: No mention of the fact that half of Chuck Norris facts are rip-offs of Bill Brasky?

Brasky framed Roger Rabbit AND breastfeeds John Madden


Bill Brasky had sex with my wife. It was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen.

/srsly, enough with the Norris facts

....my bad spelling was even worse than the Chuck Norris shiat.

I can't believe they got the list of the most awesome web memes mixed up with the list of the most obnoxious ones.

Pocket Ninja: 1) Formulaic, repetitive, and unoriginal articles that attempt to invoke humor, wit, and edginess while actually possessing none of those things.

Did you see the Weeners? Now I know why you're on the rag

They forgot #10: Putting up stupid lists on multiple pages to just to increase your pageviews.

The Hamster Dance music is a sped-up version of a song in the Disney version of Robin Hood.

FTA: "Rickrolling had become widespread by May 2007, with hundreds of thousands of occurrences popping up all over internet message boards, despite the fact that it had stopped being funny around the second time someone ever did it."


This^THIS

They're... making fun.... of Chuck?