YODELIN'
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By Shruthi Nair
What is a Meme???
A meme is a concept, catchphrase, or piece of media that spreads, often as mimicry or for humorous purposes, from person to person via the Internet. The word meme was created by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene. As an attempt to explain the way cultural information spreads. Internet memes are a subset of this general meme concept specific to the culture and environment of the Internet.
Who is he???
The boy by an aisle in Walmart is known as the Yodeling Walmart Kid. His name is Mason Ramsey, and lives in Golconda, Illinois. He is only eleven years old. He had gone to the busy store, Walmart, to practice his yodeling. The song he used was the “Lovesick Blues.” When his video was posted it went had gone viral, because of his popularity he was invited to go on the Ellen Show. When he grows up and was able to become a country singer he says, “Well, I'm going to save up all that money, and I'm going to go to college, and then I'm going to move to Florida and I'm going to work my way up in a motorhome.”
Bibliography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_meme
“Internet Meme.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 2 May 2018, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_meme.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/remysmidt/walmart-yodel-kid-interview-mason?utm_term=.pe5mvagre#.xx7R7aY48
Smidt, Remy. “The Walmart Yodeling Kid Everyone Is In Love With Said That He's Performed In Walmart ‘Like 50,000 Times.’” BuzzFeed, BuzzFeed, www.buzzfeed.com/remysmidt/walmart-yodel-kid-interview-mason?utm_term=.pe5mvagre#.xx7R7aY48.
https://www.inverse.com/article/43362-yodeling-kid-mason-ramsey-walmart
Aue, Mary von. “Who Is the Yodeling Kid? How the Walmart Singer Won the Internet.”Inverse, Inverse, 10 Apr. 2018, www.inverse.com/article/43362-yodeling-kid-mason-ramsey-walmart.
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By Roxanna Razzazian -
What is a dank meme-
The phrase dank meme first emerged in 2013 on message boards within 4chan and Reddit. It was dedicated to making mocking memes of existing memes. Memes that use the phrase dank tend to be deliberately self-referential, and brimming with in-jokes that poke fun at meme creators, who think they’re offering fresh takes on memes but have, in fact, fallen behind the internet’s fast-changing times.
Who is Kermit the frog-
The original voice of Kermit the frog was Jim Henson. Kermit used work on Sesame Street. He would often make appearances on the ever since 1969 when he made his first appearance on the segment of the Elmo’s World in the show. In 1970 Kermit was dropped from the show because his character had seemed commercial like. Some magazines had written that he was doing commercials instead but others how Kermit was dropped for commercialism. But, he had appeared on the show’s second season once. In 1976, The Muppet Show had aired. Kermit and his other muppet friends started a weekly show. There show was filled with music and comedy. Sadly the show had lost their popularity and ended in 1981. Years later, Disney had gained rights of the muppets and made a movie of the muppets getting back together again. The movie was a huge hit so they had decided to make a sequel. The sequel was also a success but it wasn’t more successful than the first.
Bibliography
Santiago, Amanda Luz Henning. “Everything to Know about the Unexpected and Dramatic Firing of Kermit the Frog Actor Steve Whitmire, after 27 Years.” Business Insider, Business Insider, 21 July 2017, www.businessinsider.com/kermit-the-frog-actor-firing-details-2017-7.
“Slang by Dictionary.com.” Dictionary.com, Dictionary.com, www.dictionary.com/e/slang/dank-meme/.
“Kermit the Frog on Sesame Street.” Muppet Wiki, muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Kermit_the_Frog_on_Sesame_Street.
“The Muppet Show.” Muppet Wiki, muppet.wikia.com/wiki/The_Muppet_Show.
