Do You Knowz What I Meme
By ROBERT SIEGEL MELISSA BLOCK - NPR
Added: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:35:36 UTC
What's in a meme? Pardon meme?
Let me explain. Or rather I'll let the expert explain:
Ben Huh, CEO of the Cheezburger Network, works in the business of memes. He says a meme is an "alternate media universe, where things echo off of each other, and people get very creative and strange and [it's] a bit of a meritocratic process of finding out what's good."
Huh's company — which runs 55 funny websites like failbook.com, which makes fun of Facebook; verydemotivational.com, which posts photos of posters that demotivate; and engrishfunny.com, which collects horrible mistranslations around the world — gets about 20,000 pieces of content daily.
Huh is also the inventor of the mother of all memes: LolCats — photos of cats that have different captions and are passed on from person to person.
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