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Tiger Blood Drink: 5 Winning Variations on the Charlie Sheen Inspired Beverage
By Steven Hoffer - AOL NewsIt all started with Charlie Sheen's humble description of his impeccable circulatory system. In a now legendary interview with NBC's Today Show, Sheen boasted that he was not like ordinary people in that "tiger blood" flows through his veins. With his words quickly becoming an internet meme, Sheen decided that putting some tiger blood in his stomach would also prove entertaining for his many fans. So, after being officially fired by Warner Brothers on Monday, Sheen took to a California rooftop with a machete, a bottle allegedly filled with tiger blood, and one of his two goddesses for a ...
Facebook Profile Picture Meme: From Cartoons to Pedophiles [TIMELINE]
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Dec. 6) -- The Facebook profile cartoon meme is on a viral tear. The campaign encourages users to update their Facebook profile pictures to classic cartoon characters and has evolved from a harmless attempt at creating a nostalgic meme into, according to unconfirmed reports that don't make a lot of sense, an organized effort by pedophiles across the Internet seeking to connect with children on Facebook. Sound confusing? The meme has left many Facebook users scratching their heads. So Surge Desk sifted through the reports and offers some insight with this timeline documenting the cartoon ...
Cartoon Character Facebook Meme: I'm Bambi. Or Not.
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyI'm Bambi. I'd like to be, anyway. But it doesn't take much to bring out the Tasmanian Devil in me. Yesterday ABC News reported on the new meme sweeping Facebook. People are replacing their profile pictures with a childhood favorite cartoon character. According to knowyourmeme.com, the cartoon character game started three weeks ago in Greece and Cyprus. The original plan was to remove all pictures of humans from Facebook, but that meme morphed into yet another "awareness" game, similar to the bra color (breast cancer) and purse (female empowerment) games months ago. This time the good cause ...
An Empire Built on Cute Kitties: How LOLcat CEO Ben Huh Changed the Internet
By Billy Baker - AOL News
(Oct. 20) -- As the mogul of memes, Ben Huh controls an entire corner of Internet vocabulary. Fail. Photobomb. Squee. Lolcats. A former journalist, Huh, 32, did not create these memes. Nor does he remix the content that continues the process. He just owns the real estate where they go to live. He founded his company, Pet Holdings, in 2007, when he bought the website I Can Has Cheezburger? and its pictures of cats with grammatically challenged inner-monologue captions. Three years later, Huh's growing empire is like a Pac-Man ready to gobble up whatever meme breaks next. The Pet ...
Facebook Wants to Know Where I Like My Purse. Here's Where They Can Put It.
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyIt's meme season again. Last year about this time, lots of women found this message in their Facebook mailboxes: "Help spread the wings of breast cancer awareness by putting the color of your bra as your status. Just the color, nothing else. It will be fun to see how long it takes before the men will wonder why all the girls have a color in their status." My colleague Frances Tobin was not amused. Neither was I. In "My Bra? Color Me Furious," I objected "not for myself, but for friends I've watched face this beast. Many of them aren't wearing bras of any color because their breasts are ...
'Dry Erase Girl' Not Ready to Quit Her Day Job
By Billy Baker - AOL News(Aug. 22) -- In the past the overnight success stories that Hollywood loves so much were of course not actually overnight. The road from "discovered" to "beloved" took months, what with the time required to actually produce a movie or television show. But the Internet has changed that. And rarely has one been so dramatic and so sudden as the story of Dry Erase Girl. Last week, Elyse Porterfield was just, well, Elyse Porterfield. Then she became "Jenny." Then she became, literally overnight, one of the most talked-about actresses in L.A. On August 10, the website chive.com posted a series of ...
'Bed Intruder Song' Guy Still Making the Most of His Meme
By Billy Baker - AOL News(Aug. 15) -- First there was an attempted rape. Then there was a news crew. Then there was Antoine Dodson. "After that," Dodson told AOL News, "it got out crazy." You never can tell where the Internet's meme-of-the-moment is going to come from, but even by the unpredictable laws of viral video, Dodson's story is tipping out at the surreal end of the spectrum. In late July, a home intruder allegedly tried to rape Dodson's sister, Kelly, in their Huntsville, Ala., home. Dodson came to her rescue. When a television news crew showed up, he looked right into the camera, his wild afro buried ...
Forget WikiLeaks -- #Wookieleaks Reveals Classified 'Star Wars' Documents
By Joe Peacock - AOL News(July 28) -- The Galactic News Net, also known on Earth as "Twitter," is alight today with thousands of fake yet hilarious facts about the "Star Wars" universe declassified in a document dump dubbed "#Wookieleaks." With the Pentagon still reeling after the website WikiLeaks released thousands of classified documents about the war in Afghanistan, the Death Star has become the new target of a rebel alliance of truth-seekers. Twitter users have taken it upon themselves to release previously confidential "facts" pertaining to the war against the Galactic Empire from "Star Wars, compiling a ...
Meet the Guy Behind the Double Rainbow Video
By Billy Baker - AOL News(July 25) -- In January, Paul Vasquez saw a double rainbow in his yard near Yosemite National Park, grabbed his video camera and recorded not just the pretty colors, but his own emotional reaction to it. Now the Double Rainbow video has passed viral status and ascended to that weirdest of modern weirds -- it's become a meme. The video got rolling when it was tweeted by Jimmy Kimmel at the beginning of July, has since been parodied and glorified by celebrities, and turned its maker, Vasquez, a 47-year-old from the barrios of East L.A. who now calls himself Yosemite Bear, into a strange sort of ...
Cheezburger Tycoon Brings 'Street Comedy' to the Web
By Ben Muessig - AOL News(July 14) -- On the Internet, they're either laughing with you or they're laughing with someone else. So it's no surprise that Web comedy impresario Ben Huh -- the man behind more than 50 online laugh factories, including FAIL Blog and I Can Has Cheezburger -- continues to launch new humor websites. But unlike the other Internet ventures that make up his Web meme-inspired Cheezburger Network, Huh's latest creation, Bag of Misfits, follows a more traditional comedic model. While his other sites mostly feature user-generated content, like videos of horrible driving and pictures of cute cats ...
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