New homestuck meme: pictures of people doing various things down to and including normal shit like getting toast out of the toaster but with the heroic/just sign over them.
– everyone answering “no, i’m fred” to “are you [insert Y/N]” even hermione
– everything draco does ever
– calling blast ended skrewts “power bottoms”
– calling newt scamander bad variations of his name like nerd sandwicher etc
– colin creevey using that one picture he managed to get of hermione punching draco as a reaction image
– shouting “spank me daddy” at the whomping willow
– [pointing at random object] that’s a portkey
– every single cat is professor mcgonagall
why
– POTTER
– ever since snape’s “bottle fame, brew fortune” speech students just go on and on with it – “flambé success, bake brilliance” “Can you tutor me in charms?” “TUTOR you? I can teach you how to SAUTÉ EXCELLENCE.”
She’s calmly eating in the dining hall when an owl swoops in and drops off a scroll and a howler.
Hesitantly, she opens the scroll. All it has i done word on it:
“SOME”
Looking over at the Howler, she suggenly get very worried. Carefully she opens up the Howler, dreading what it’s going to contain. The Howler rips itself open.
i don’t get the “you would not believe ________ if ten million ________” meme
its the owl city song about ten million fireflies… the appeal is reading the different and amusing words and hearing the man sing them soothingly in your mind’s ears
I don’t think I know the song off the top of my head, but in any case, its not a new one right? why the meme all of a sudden
I think someone made a standard “title/post discrepancy” format joke a little while ago that was just “you would not believe your eyes/[an amusing line that replaced “if ten million fireflies”, and kept the original rhyme scheme]“. since the owl city guy is autistic and his music is appealing to people who have similar sensory processing differences-from-the-norm he’s almost universally Known to brainweird tumblr, and since that’s one of the most popular songs he’s released it was a tune pretty much everyone interacting with the original joke was familiar with. part of the humor of the meme is the mental echolalia aspect (hearing the tune just from reading the lyrics, which is one of those sensory processing things), so the initial riffs on the ur-meme were simply things that sounded funny if you mentally replaced them in the lyrics, but it quickly evolved into finding ways to maintain the rhythm and meter of the original snippet while replacing almost all of the words. at the moment, communal meme saturation has reached the point that the only words required to make it a recognizable meme remix are the “you would not” at the beginning of the thing, but someone will probably find a way to maintain the reference frame while completely replacing the content sometime soon. starting off a text-based singalong by posting the first line and waiting for someone who knows what song it is to join in with the second is a somewhat esoteric behavioral meme that has its origins in jamming the fuck out and shitposting wildly, but with the bonus of unknown friends. to sing out into the void and have another sing back is a simple and timeless pleasure. this is a variation on that – we are not singing the next line of the song, but the same line, over and over, in as many variations as possible, keeping only the musical aspect, since the original memer found that it was amusing and interesting to do so.
according to american gods the collective ideas and beliefs are enough to give birth to a new deity, this doesnt just aplied to say gods like odin but to concepts like media and the internet,as well. They also gain power from worship and sacrifices.
Woody Roundup is a collective effort
Deactivated Urls are offered in sacrifice with each one becoming a new branch of the hivemind
There are People who say i pray that your blog gets taken over by the woody collective to evildoers
People say its name in attempt to summon it like bloody mary
Ergo Woody is a hivemind eldritch god but a benevolent one
ALL HAIL SHERIFF WOODY
thank you sheriff for blessing us with your presence
I think people often underestimate the potential educational value of senseless memes. For example, thanks to Spiders Georg, literally every teenager on Tumblr has a reasonable grasp of what a statistical outlier is and the sorts of problems that outliers can introduce into a naïve
analysis. There are grown adults who don’t get that – I deal with them on a daily basis.
“Memes have educational value” actually statistical error. Average meme teaches 0 facts. Spiders Georg is an outlier adn should not be counted
just moving along like everyone else 