vincent bidaux  freelance web and application design

This was written in a comment of a reddit item here.

Internet Meme Timeline
Spawned: 4chan
Developed: 4chan
Murdered: 4chan
Revived: Reddit
Complained about: Reddit
Noticed: Digg
Matured: Reddit
Subpage frontpaged: Digg
Made annoying: Reddit
Promptly dismissed: Somethingawful
Front Paged: Digg
Blood squeezed from the stone: www.icanhazphilosoraptor.com
Implemented into unfunny headline: Fark
Made into painful flash video: YTMND
Unfunny headline turned into meme: Fark
Automatically downmodded/buried: Reddit and Digg
Showed up at one point but no one cares because they’re too busy Twittering about their recent bowel movement: Stumbleupon
Stolen and used for profit: Ebaumsworld
Extensive advice about how meme can improve your blog: Delicio.us
Revived and considered mildly entertaining: Somethingawful
LOLcats noticed: Yahoo
Mentioned in magazine under the “we’re hip with the kids” section: Time, Newsweek, etc.
Forgotten: Everyone except Somethingawful
Revived months later to piss off everyone: 4chan

• Meme : definition on Wikipedia
• The source of the post on Reddit
• Reddit.com
• 4chan.com
• Digg.com
• Stumbleupon
• Somethingawful
• Ebaumsworld.com
• Drew Curtis’s Fark
• You’re the man now dog

(You may ask yourself sometimes where all the internet crap you’re being forwarded to comes from… Good chances it comes from one of the sites listed above.)