Category talk:Internet memes

Proposal of Deletion of Category
You're probably thinking, "WHAT, HELL NO", but.. regardless. There is way too much debate going around the intarwebs regarding whether something is or is not a meme. Because there are no official sources of what does or does not constitute a meme, putting anything in this category is, in fact, original research. Of course, this may not apply to very notable memes that have found their ways into notable publications (for example, "Rickrolling), but it does to, say, Fei hua qing han (unless, of course, you're a Chinese internets expert. Esper  rant  04:27, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
 * If you're absolutely against it, at least explain to me what constitutes a meme. It seems like a lot of the elements included in the list seem to be pretty arbitrarily added. Examples would include Mario is Missing!, Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog and the absence of such classics as "How do I shot web", "Milhouse is not a meme", and "Happy Negro". If we've got nothing to go on, I don't see why we don't just go ahead and copy ED's list. Esper  rant  04:34, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

PT-109
This is an Internet Meme?

Homestar Runner
Woah! There are far too many wiki articles for Homestar Runner. I request that these be merged into one or mabey just a few articles. HSR might be popular but i dont think it deserves that many entries and definitly not its own subcategory. --Paradox CT 22:57, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
 * There are lots of somewhat-disconnected things at Homestar Runner which are all notable in their own right - Baleeted gets referenced everywhere, the Teen Girl Squad, etc. The only real connection is that they're all in Homestar Runner. It's not obvious that they're all related. --AySz88 ^  -  ^  23:15, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
 * True, some of them can stay, but i think most of them can be merged, especially the ones on the characters. --Paradox CT 05:18, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Importance?
Most of these entries should have their importance re-verified on a regular basis. -- 75.23.152.73 15:28, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Golden rule of defintion writing
Golden rule of defintion writing, don't use the word you are trying to define in the defintion itself.

I changed:


 * Internet memes are objects of interest on the Internet that are passed around in a memetic manner.

to:


 * Internet memes are catch-phrases on the Internet.

Signed: Travb (talk) 10:36, 3 October 2006 (UTC)


 * i doubt that thats good, as most of them aren't "Catch-phrases" Articon 14:48, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

I've changed it back. The new description is incorrect. The "defined word in the definition" thing isn't really a problem here, as neither "Internet" or "meme" are the words we are defining. The purpose of the description in this case is to clarify that "Internet meme" does indeed refer to what is assumed - that is, a meme on the Internet - rather than something completely different. --- RockMFR 22:13, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Rename
This category should be renamed Category:Internet fads or Category:Internet phenomena. The term and concept of "memes" are contested, hardly anyone outside of Internet geek culture even knows what a "meme" is, and having a category with this name lends unwarranted promotion to the POV of Richard Dawkins. Fads exist, "memes" do not. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.108.132.16 (talk) 10:21, 3 November 2007 (UTC) I agree with this. These aren't memes at all. I was so disappointed when i checked for a list on wikipedia and got this. I've not heard of any debate as to what a meme is: it's media repeated and evolves over time through the mutations created by the contibuters. Wasn't it coined by Dawkins for this reason? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.16.90.47 (talk) 06:29, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Why So Serious?
Surely this is an internet meme? Retrorocker (talk) 22:34, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

shoop da whoop
come on... COME OOOOONN!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.255.98.92 (talk) 23:09, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Excorcist
Where is the Excorcist? Wouldn't the Scary Maze Game count as a meme? Maildiver (talk) 01:34, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia, Learn Your memes
A lot of this stuff is not internet memes.Faythoffenrir (talk) 22:49, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

Organization
I wish there was a list organizing internet memes by year

as far as internet phenominon and internet fads, why not have those terms link to hear as well. (and list in the first sentance Internet memes, also known as internet phenominon or intetenet fads....) amyanda 158.80.40.2 (talk)amyanda2000 oh... it's 4 tildes can't remember if my log in is 158.80.40.2 (talk) 17:05, 13 January 2012 (UTC)amyanda or 158.80.40.2 (talk) 17:05, 13 January 2012 (UTC)amyanda2000

RfC: Should pages that have themselves become internet memes be added to this category?
So, there are pages that have become memes. The biggest example of such a page is the article Cock and ball torture, though I'm sure other pages could count. Should pages of this nature be added to this category? If so, is it only articles, or any page (e.g. Unusual Articles)? Invalid OS (talk) 17:44, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

'Curse You Perry The Platypus' is listed twice
Title. Unfortunately I have no clue how to fix the problem, as it seems the cause is that 'Curse You Perry The Platypus' is present as two entries in different categories. However both links link to the same page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 164.116.47.26 (talk) 19:33, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

Every Internet meme should be in this category to make navigation easier.
— the Main Logan  (t•c) 13:28, 6 September 2023 (UTC)