Here’s the first one.Ĭraving more? You can find the rest of Cris4389’s compilations here. (Please report dead links to admin(at)) Want More?Ī person who uses the YouTube handle Cris4389 has made more than 20 roughly ten minute each compilations of the clips. Why!? Why!? The trauma! All the hamster wanted was that piece of dried fruit! (It’s some sort of dried fruit, right?) Now the poor little guy is scarred for life…. This first video, of a Hamster that mysteriously freezes up, seems to be one of the more popular ones. We have the still photos, like the one of ‘Sad Affleck’ in the feature image, but those don’t tend to be nearly as good as the videos.
Song Credit: Columbia Records (Please report dead links to admin(at)) Where Do Memes and “The Sound of Silence” Collide? Without further gibber jab, here is the song, off of their 1964 album, Wednesday Morning, 3 a.m. To be fair, lists like that are subjective, and I bet a few people would place the song on a ‘Worst Songs of All Time’ list, but you get the point. On the magazine Rolling Stone’s 2011 list of the 500 greatest songs of all time, “The Sound of Silence” ranked 157. I’d like to think that this is a song everyone can, at least by the age of ten or so, recognize without an internet joke, but sadly that is not the world we live in. (Please report dead links to admin(at))īaseball player Bryce Harper seems to think it’s pronounced ‘maymay’ but he’s the only one. Phonetically, the word sounds much more like ‘meem’, with a hard e, as in me. As described by Merriam Webster, a meme is:Īn amusing or interesting item (such as a captioned picture or video) or genre of items that is spread widely online especially through social mediaĪlthough meme looks as if it sounds like it would read, ‘me-me,’ it doesn’t. Mostly everyone under the age of 40 knows what a meme is. Let’s start putting this puzzle together by defining what a meme is. Would as many young people know about the song if it hadn’t been turned into a meme? There’s no way we can know for sure, but I’m guessing the answer is no.
The internet, and more specifically meme culture has brought the 1960’s rock classic, “The Sound of Silence,” to a whole new generation. There are hundreds, maybe thousands of videos on YouTube using the song “The Sound of Silence,” specifically the lyrics, ‘Hello darkness my old friend’ as a meme.
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