Soldato
- Joined
- 10 May 2004
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- Sunny Stafford
This was meant to be a motivational poster during WW2 produced by our gov't. It was used very little or none at all and therefore wasn't common knowledge. I first saw it as a phrase on the net late last year, probably about November time. Someone rediscovered it and I think it caught on as one of those internet in-jokes like 'All your base are belong to us'. People photoshopped it into their own versions, parodies etc. Like Badger Badger, Paedobear, Hampsterdance and LOLcat, it spreads across the net where it becomes a household name to fellow netizens. Think what I'm describing is spelt meme but you pronounce it meem.
All of a sudden though, this Keep Calm poster is everywhere, both online and offline! I was in Stafford town centre today and it was in shop windows, available as little notepads, badges, posters in HMV etc and parodies of it. It doesn't bother me, but I'm wary that the joke will wear thin before long due to the uptake. When it goes offline i.e. all over town, is it still a meme?
Still relating to online obsessions, the one thing that really irked me was the 2011 My Little Pony fad. To me, it was just a cartoon that our 30-something sisters watched when they were kids back in the late 1980s. In 2011 though, every corner you turned, there was a pony of some sort. Comparable to how every piece of music had to have a dubstep version of it. Gladly, the ponies seemed to be singled out to only 2011 and it'll die a death like the short-lived Twilight obsession did 3 years ago.
All of a sudden though, this Keep Calm poster is everywhere, both online and offline! I was in Stafford town centre today and it was in shop windows, available as little notepads, badges, posters in HMV etc and parodies of it. It doesn't bother me, but I'm wary that the joke will wear thin before long due to the uptake. When it goes offline i.e. all over town, is it still a meme?
Still relating to online obsessions, the one thing that really irked me was the 2011 My Little Pony fad. To me, it was just a cartoon that our 30-something sisters watched when they were kids back in the late 1980s. In 2011 though, every corner you turned, there was a pony of some sort. Comparable to how every piece of music had to have a dubstep version of it. Gladly, the ponies seemed to be singled out to only 2011 and it'll die a death like the short-lived Twilight obsession did 3 years ago.
