friday meme: crappy taxidermy

you guys are probably used to the quality work of chuck testa, but not every taxidermist is of that caliber.

About
Crappy Taxidermy is a single topic blog that highlights photographs of bizarre-looking or poorly stuffed animal skins. Since its launch in 2009, the site’s popularity has led to the creation of similar online projects devoted to crudely taxidermied creatures.

Origin

On May 26th, 2009, the Crappy Taxidermy^[3] Tumblr blog was launched, which highlights humorous photos of taxidermied animals. The blog’s first post featured a mounted squirrel with a menacing expression and sharp, jagged teeth (shown below).

MINI MEME: patrick stewart is awesome

Origin

On March 5th, 2014, 3:18 PM (ET), a photograph of British prime minister David Cameron discussing the 2014 Crimean Crisis on the phone with President Obama was tweeted via Cameron’s official Twitter account.^[6]

there were a couple other pics as well, but nothing that can top professor x

friday meme: fake messages

not sure if this is even a meme and i pretty much stole all of these from dorkly, but i did think they were really funny.

FRIDAY MEME: MISLEADING THUMBNAIL

About

Misleading Thumbnails are images that appear to resemble something else entirely after they have been reduced in size, creating a type of optical illusion. These are not to be confused with the contextually misleading thumbnails associated with YouTube vloggers known as “Reply Girls”, which contain sexually suggestive images meant to increase video view counts.

Origin

On February 13th, 2005, the “Misleading Thumbnails” Flickr^[1] group was launched, featuring photographs which could misinterpreted as a picture of something else when viewed as a small thumbnail on a gallery page.

friday meme: nice may may man

About

Nice MayMay Man, also known as “Le Nice New MayMay,” is an exploitable poorly-drawn illustration of a man looking to the side with a mouth agape. The character is named after a common mispronounciation of the word “meme” and is used within the /r/circlejerk subreddit to mock Internet meme clichés