Manchester United’s ‘not a cellphone in sight’ meme backfires spectacularly

Here’s a sage piece of advice for you: think twice before you meme.  
If only someone had given this advice to UK football club Manchester United, they would not be in the situation they are in now. 
The club’s attempt at a “not a cellphone…

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‘They did surgery on a grape’ is the weird meme that’s your new obsession

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In May, surgery was performed on a grape. A grape!  And for whatever reason, the internet is now delighting in this fact.

The Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Australia used a grape to showcase the delicate and efficient surgical work that robots can perform. 

BEHIND THE SCENES. Here’s some pictures from today’s shoot with Peter Mac’s Director of Robotic Surgery @declangmurphy showing @ScopeTV11 how our da Vinci Xi robot works, performing precision surgery on a grape#roboticsurgery #robot #davinciXi pic.twitter.com/dfzGszpzN6

— Peter Mac Cancer Ctr (@PeterMacCC) May 29, 2018

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The ‘Don’t say it’ meme is so relatable for anyone whose mouth has a mind of its own

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Sometimes your mouth is just not in the mood to follow instructions from your brain.

We all know the feeling of having no control over the words coming out of our mouths. And now, that feeling has been encapsulated in the “don’t say it” meme.

The meme, which has spread rapidly over Twitter,  is all about those situations where you end up saying the one thing you’re trying your hardest not to.  

This is a classic. 

*Gets in taxi*

My brain:
Don’t say it
Don’t say it
Don’t say it
Don’t say it
Don’t say it
Don’t say it
Don’t say it
Don’t say it
Don’t say it
Don’t say it
Don’t say it
Don’t say it
Don’t say it
Don’t say it

Me: “Been busy?”

— George Aylett (@GeorgeAylett) November 7, 2018 Read more…

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Colin Kaepernick’s Nike ad is naturally a meme now

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On Monday, Nike unveiled athlete and activist Colin Kaepernick as one of the faces of its new campaign and soon after chaos ensued, because…of course it did.

Kaepernick’s Nike ad features a close-up of the football player’s face, and ad copy that reads, “Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything.”

Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything#JustDoIt pic.twitter.com/SRWkMIDdaO

— Colin Kaepernick (@Kaepernick7) September 3, 2018

The athlete rose to national fame for being the first NFL player to kneel during the National Anthem in protest of police brutality against African-American people in the United States. His protest has since inspired players across the league to do the same. Read more…

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The ‘hurt me’ meme is a weirdly enjoyable way to confront your deepest fears

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What would hurt you the most? If you said being confronted with your deep-seated insecurities, we have a meme for you. 

The “hurt me” meme is here to bare every upsetting truth or fear you might have. Fun, right?

It begins in the bedroom with a simple prompt: “hurt me.” But instead of responding with an act of physical pain, your imaginary partner says something that cuts you to your core.

me during sex: hurt me

them: you were never that smart you just were good at reading as a child so you were given special attention and it gave you a complex

me: wait-

them: you don’t try at school because youre convinced ur natural intellect will save you but u don’t have it

— Minna (@minnascule) August 19, 2018 Read more…

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What it’s like to learn from Twitter that your grandpa’s become a meme

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At any moment in time, whether you want it to happen or not, someone could take a photo of you, post it online, and turn it into a meme for the internet’s enjoyment. (This, I assume, is the price we pay for existing in 2018.)

And as one Reddit user recently learned, this applies to everyone — even grandpas. On Thursday, u/manic_unicorn revealed in a post that her grandfather was once the subject of a meme.

“My cousin was browsing Twitter and came across this picture of our grandpa at the mall with his friends that a stranger took and captioned ‘Squad Goals’,” she wrote in the Reddit post of the photo, and noting that the image “had been retweeted thousands of times.” Read more…

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Remembering Advice Animals, one of the internet’s first viral memes

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It’s Viral Market Crash week on Mashable. Join us as we take stock of the viral economy and investigate how the internet morphed from a fun free-for-all to a bleak hellscape we just can’t quit.

Today’s internet is an endless buffet of memes. Bountiful GIFs, viral videos, and an innumerable amount of tweets are bestowed upon us on a daily basis. But before that wide and glorious selection was available to us, there was really only one entree on the table: Advice Animals.

Remember Advice Animals? Those early internet memes like Scumbag Steve and the Overly Attached Girlfriend, that consisted of a picture and two lines of text delivering a rudimentary joke. In 2006, these guys started spreading snarky jokes, embarrassing stories, and musings. They positively dominated sites like Reddit, Tumblr, and 4Chan in the late aughts.  Read more…

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Mariah Carey owned the ‘if you can’t handle me at my worst meme’ and y’all can go home

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Silence please! Mariah has spoken. 

And this time, she’s weighed in on the current most popular meme on the internet. And, she absolutely slayed every other version of the meme. 

Mariah tweeted the words “If you don’t love me at my” beneath a shot of her character in the 2009 movie Precious, in which she played social worker Ms. Weiss. 

The words “then you don’t deserve me at my” were written below the album cover of The Emancipation of Mimi from 2005. 

If you then you don’t
don’t love deserve
me at my me at my pic.twitter.com/pvDwOOvJsM

— Mariah Carey (@MariahCarey) April 8, 2018 Read more…

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