https://www.shawnconn.com/tags/meme en https://www.shawnconn.com/blog/fail-meme <article role="article" class="blog is-promoted teaser clearfix"><h2> <a href="https://www.shawnconn.com/blog/fail-meme" rel="bookmark"><span>The Fail Meme</span> </a> </h2> <footer><div class="author"> Submitted by <span><span>Shawn Conn</span></span> on <span>Sat, 07/10/2010 - 12:14</span> </div> </footer><div class="content"> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><blockquote><p><em>Why does everyone say "fail"? That's so fucking gay!</em> <strong>-A Concerned citizen</strong></p></blockquote><p>I've been thinking about the fail Internet <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme">meme</a> recently. In the past couple of years it has hit a critical mass; you can find it in all kinds of mass media and people's conversations. A friend of mine, new to social media over the net, found the meme's pervasiveness troubling (articulated by the quote above). I was curious about its origins so I embarked on quest for knowledge.</p></div> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="node-readmore"><a href="https://www.shawnconn.com/blog/fail-meme" rel="tag" title="The Fail Meme" hreflang="en">Read more<span class="visually-hidden"> about The Fail Meme</span></a></li><li class="comment-comments"><a href="https://www.shawnconn.com/blog/fail-meme#comments" title="Jump to the first comment." hreflang="en">3 comments</a></li><li class="comment-forbidden"></li></ul></div> </article> Sat, 10 Jul 2010 19:14:57 +0000 Shawn Conn 90 at https://www.shawnconn.com