Know your meme

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On-line December 2008 (currently online)
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Know Your Meme (to German : Know Your Meme) is an English-language website which Internet phenomena like memes , viral media content and other features of power and pop culture gathering.

It is based on wiki software that enables users to collaboratively create their own entries and contribute to existing ones. The site currently contains over 18,000 registered pages, of which over 4,000 have been confirmed. The site has a global Alexa Internet Rank of 891. The site contains over 9 million keywords and has been linked over 65 million times.

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Page structure

The page explains certain phenomena of network culture in the respective entries. For this purpose, the meaning, the origin, modifications, development and the spread of the respective phenomenon are discussed and this is illustrated by appropriate examples if necessary.

Similar entries are suggested below the page. A graph from Google Trends can be embedded to show the historical course . The site also has a forum , a news site, an image board , a blog , a podcast and an online shop .

Classification of the content

The administrators of the site decide on this classification. Each individual page is divided into one of four groups:

  • Verified content: The site has been reviewed by the site administrators.
  • Content not yet checked: The page has not yet been checked by the administrators of the site.
  • Rejected or irrelevant or insufficiently verifiable content: The topic is not widespread or documentable enough and has therefore been marked as Deadpool.
  • Content that could be improved: The site could be improved and important information is missing.

Thematically, the content is assigned to the main categories of culture, events, memes, people, websites and subculture . In addition, new, old, heavily discussed and popular entries can be filtered out and additional filter and sorting functions can be used. Some content is marked as Not Safe For Work (NSFW for short).

Web series

In addition to the page, individual memes are also presented in a web series . In a few minutes, the team describes individual memes and the story behind them. Photos are displayed to describe the content. The first episode started on December 17, 2007 and led to nine more episodes in 2007. From then on, a new season with new memes appeared every year.

history

Jamie Wilkinson and Kenyatta Cheese at ROFLCon II

The Know Your Meme project started in September 2007 as a recurring segment within the Rocketboom video series and a wiki landing page was set up to support the documentation of Internet memes .

The presenters at the time were Joanne Colan, Kenyatta Cheese, Elspeth Rountree and Andrew Baron , who pretended to be meme experts and analyzed current and popular internet memes on the show. Anyone with an account could use the website to support "meme research" and to do research.

In late 2008, after having grown the site for over a year, Rocketboom released an expanded database with Jamie Wilkinson as lead developer. Over time, the site changed from an originally journalistic project to an online encyclopedia or database on the basis of a wiki system about network culture.

The Know Your Meme website and web series were acquired by Cheezburger Network in March 2011 for an undisclosed seven-figure amount.

External perception

Awards

In August 2009 the site was named one of the 50 best websites of 2009 by Time magazine . In December, it was named Best Website of 2009 by The Winnipeg Free Press . For the performance of the musician Weird Al Yankovic , the web series won the Streamy Award in the category for the best guest appearance by a celebrity in a web series.

In May 2012 the site won the Webby Award in the Blogger Culture category.

Public statements and criticisms

Brad Kim from Know Your Meme describes the process of documenting network culture as a mirror of time that reflects the culture of the Internet in relation to the technology magazine The Verge . However, the truth is not increasingly being cared for and the focus is instead on the narrative and the myth of the phenomenon. In some cases, individual issues are described in too much detail or move away from the main topic. However, it helps to bring you closer to the language and culture of the Internet, which is often not easy to understand, and, in contrast to other sites, to deal more with pop culture and the zeitgeist than with the mere content.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Knowyourmeme.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors. In: Alexa. Retrieved May 22, 2018 .
  2. How To Become A Millionaire Writing About Memes - Niche Facts. In: Niche Facts. January 5, 2018, accessed May 22, 2018 .
  3. Meme Categories. In: Know Your Meme. Retrieved May 22, 2018 .
  4. NSFW. In: Know Your Meme. Retrieved May 22, 2018 .
  5. Episodes. In: Know Your Meme. Retrieved May 23, 2018 .
  6. This website is for sale! In: dembot Resources and Information. Retrieved May 22, 2018 .
  7. a b The story of the internet, as told by Know Your Meme. In: The Verge. Retrieved May 22, 2018 .
  8. Know Your Meme: Cataloging 10 years of internet culture. In: The Daily Dot. April 30, 2018. Retrieved May 23, 2018 .
  9. 'Know Your Meme' Acquired By Cheezburger in Seven-Figure Deal. (No longer available online.) In: Tubefilter. March 28, 2011, archived from the original on September 17, 2012 ; accessed on May 22, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / news.tubefilter.tv
  10. ^ Humberto Urban: Benezit Dictionary of Artists . doi: 10.1093 / benz / 9780199773787.article.b00187160
  11. Anthony Augustine / Siteseeing: Siteseeing. In: Winnipeg Free Press. December 31, 2009, accessed May 22, 2018 .
  12. Know Your Meme. Retrieved May 22, 2018 .
  13. Sonia Paul: 16th Annual Webby Award Winners: The Complete List. In: Mashable. Retrieved May 22, 2018 .