Failed #Hashtags

So, we're on Twitter. Duh. Everybody's on Twitter. (Even our boss- even your Mom, which doesn't come as much of a surprise since, according to the kids in the neighborhood, she's sort of a early-adopter of social networking websites- if you catch my drift.)

Anyway, #hashtags are the cool thing on Twitter- basically they're little subject headings for your little posts so people can search for results based on what you're talking about. Anyway, the really cool ones become memes, and, as everyone knows, memes make you money, and, as our readers know, we need money. So, we've been trying (poorly) to start some #hashtag memes. Here is a gallery of our failure.

1. #twittervandalism
Inspired by our series of blogs about Wikipedia Vandalism, we figured we should apply the same treatment to the micro-blog. Twitter-hijacking is surprisingly common- though the recent Tila Tequila thing may kind of put a damper on it- or at least put a damper on it being "funny" or "art."

2. #knockknock
We thought by posting the hashtag #knockknock, people would respond with #whosthere, then we'd say #bananas, then they'd say #bananaswho, then we'd say #orangeyougladididntsaybanana, then they'd says #lolwot. We thought that would be funny. Apparently it wasn't. Sorry, we wasted your time.

3. #onlyats
Okay, now this one I genuinely thought people would dig. It's a game, spell out a sentence by only using valid Twitter user-names. It has yet to take off... Which is really too bad, because unlike those other ones- I really, really believed that #onlyats was going to be the meme-money-train straight to our door.

You know who drives the meme-money train? Rick Astley. True story.

Sorry for all our failures. I guess that's why we're working where we're working...

Dan

Kids, Surrealism... Again. Stupid, Fast Internet...

So I was going to post this video Kittens (Inspired by Kittens) and relate it to our post about Capucha's Once Upon a Time... but by the time I got around to it, this damn Kittens video reached full-on screaming meme status! Seriously, just trying to find this video to post I had to go through Kittens (Inspired by Kittens) After the Dentist, Kittens (Yelled at by Christian Bale), and Kittens (Inspired by Kittens) After the Dentist- and OMG, BTW Their Dentist is Christian Bale (which, "btw" just rick-rolls you- I knew it was too good to be true...)

Stupid internet.

Anyway, since this thing is the next Tay Zonday Remix of the Numa Numa Song as Performed by a Lion Reunited with its Original Owner, Who Happens to be the Star Wars Kid and the Lions go 'Youze B R Parentz?!?' and the Kid is Really an Elephant that Paints a Picture of the Leprachaun from the News, and the Same Newscast Hired the Woman Who Fell in the Grapes and the Weather Guy Who's Scared of Bugs, but not the Boom-Goes-the-Dynamite Kid and then This Other Kid There Told Them That he Likes Turtles and Bill O'Reily was like "Do it Live!" and that All Your Base Belong to Him and the Evolution of Dance and, ugh, Boxxy.

Anyway, so here's the thing I was going to post:



Then here's what I was going to write:

Hey... look... this is weird...

I don't have the energy for this. I was beaten to the punch- by literally the entire world. I was just going to say something about how I wondered if this kid is coming up with this stuff or not... I hope so...

Stupid internet.

Next week, the internet is going to begin making memes that reference things that don't even exist yet....

Dan

Congress Keeps it Surreal...

With all our coverage of the 2008 election, our main concern was getting some surrealists in office. Turns out they're already there. Here's a video posted to YouTube by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi:



The whole video is weird- and then the Rick-rolling. Weird. And the little pop-up which tell you to google Rick-rolling...?

By the way, Rick-rolling is what people describe as a meme. I hate that term and I hate "memes". Passionately. Seriously, if anyone ever describes us or this blog as a "meme" I will shoot myself in the Goddamn face. I swear.

Dan