The Double Rainbow meme is dead, and it’s assisted suicide, thanks to Microsoft. Over a month after Paul “Bear” Vasquez’s reaction to a double rainbow went viral, Vasquez is now starring in a commercial for Microsoft’s Windows Live Photo Gallery. Read more »
It doesn’t seem easy, but April 2010 might mark the first time someone succeeds in killing a meme. According to the Open Video Alliance, a recent surge of copyright claims has taken offline a majority of the Hitler parodies on YouTube using footage from the 2004 […] Read more »
The “resubtitle the Hitler bunker scene from the 2004 German drama Downfall” meme got new life this week when YouTube user DugganFilms applied it to the Leno/Conan debate: This latest instance inspired the folks at New York Magazine’s Vulture blog to ask Downfall director Oliver Hirschbiegel […] Read more »
