The thread was well received by others in the community, generating a lively round of questions and answers that led on to more than comments. Almost a week later on May 23rd, the OP posted a follow-up thread with the news of her discharge from the hospital as well as a heartwarming story of how she was visited by another Redditor helpmeimbored shown above, far right who read her post while staying nearby the hotel.
Meanwhile, many others complimented the OP with praises about her good look despite undergoing an intensive surgery. Within the first three hours, the post received more than 6, upvotes and reached the front page of Reddit. On June 6th, , photographer Miluta Flueras [26] snapped several photos of a long-haired audience member at a concert for the nu metal band Linkin Park in Bucharest, Romania. On the following day, the images were posted to the Romania metal blog Metalhead.
Within 24 hours, the post received over 1, upvotes and 45 comments. The meme has since spread to Memebase [33] , 9gag [34] and Tumblr [32] under the tag " ridiculously photogenic metalhead. Among them was a photograph of a Free Syrian Army fighter carrying a rocket propelled grenade launcher, taken near Idlib, Syria on June 15th, Within 24 hours, the post received over 15, up votes and comments.
The same day, the viral content site BuzzFeed [36] published a post titled "Meet Ridiculously Photogenic Syrian Rebel", which included several captioned versions of the Hamra photo shown below, top row. Also on August 15th, the Internet news blog The Daily Dot published a post titled "Introducing Ridiculously Photogenic Syrian Rebel", which included a compilation of several photoshopped with the rebel walking in front of an explosion shown below, bottom row.
On August 16th, the Daily Mail [37] published a post titled "Even in a war zone! Ridiculously photogenic Syrian rebel starts a wave of appreciative virals.
Within two months, the posts received over 2, and 15, up votes respectively. Within 48 hours, the post received over 40, up votes and 1, comments. Within 24 hours, the post gained upwards of 7, up votes and 80 comments. On the following day, the Internet news blog UpRoxx [41] published a slideshow of notable examples from the series.
Also on October 23rd, the photograph was highlighted on several news and sports blogs, including Barstool Sports, [47] The Huffington Post, [48] , Business Insider [49] and Deadspin. View All Images. Show Comments. The news inspired a celebration of Something Awful's legacy but there were complicated feelings for the man himself.
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Read Edit History. Spread Shortly after the post hit the front page, a facebomb version of the photo was posted by Redditor chehov. So I made a twitter to make it easier to talk to all of you!
Top entries this week. Notable Examples. Derivatives The series inspired other image macro series on Quickmeme. Ridiculously Photogenic Metal Head On June 6th, , photographer Miluta Flueras [26] snapped several photos of a long-haired audience member at a concert for the nu metal band Linkin Park in Bucharest, Romania.
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His Twitter account, which has around 5, followers, has only 98 tweets, and none since December For good or for ill, the spontaneous, vernacular products of social media are now subsumed by the same publicity system that envelops television, film, and print media. And the stakes of what we share are consequentially higher than ever before. These practices go all the way to the top. President Barack Obama — who from the earliest days of his presidential campaign successfully mobilized support through digital media — frequently plays with memes.
In an official White House photo, Obama and Maroney recreated the famous expression. Instead, memetic play often pulls regular people out of obscurity and places them in the spotlight. Participants on Reddit, Tumblr, Twitter, and YouTube can make a citizen suddenly public, or amplify a small audience into a massive one. Another example is Blake Boston, who gained attention in January when a photo of him wearing a fur coat and a backward baseball cap was taken from his MySpace profile.
Despite the apparent invasiveness and negative connotations of the meme, Boston has embraced his fame. Like an alter ego. Boston is one of a cadre of individuals who have unwittingly gained memetic prominence and embraced their anointed alter egos, parlaying them into more established personas. In the months after they gained internet fame, both parlayed memetic attention into public performances.
The video has been viewed 3. On the one hand, Little embraced his memetic fate, and seemed grateful at the time to the online collectives that brought him his taste of celebrity. On the other hand, whether or not Little appreciated that attention, the fact remains that a stranger posted his picture to a public forum without his consent, and a local paper subsequently revealed his identity, going so far as to contact his family and former employers. Memetic play on a mass scale, especially when captured and amplified by powerful publicity machines, has made our choices about what to create and circulate more complicated.
The same collective tools that can land someone a merchandise deal or call attention to police brutality can also rally harassers and engender unmerited suffering. Solutions at platform and policy levels can and should be prioritized as social expectation catches up to technological change. But the solutions can start small as well. Memes, even the massive ones, are made by people making individual decisions: individual screenshots, individual captions, individual comments, individual stories, individual links.
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