Saturday unpacking break = meme time!

First up is a new PSA Know Your Meme, about Hitler freaking out.

Next up is a new form of trolling. Trolling is generally saying something negative, or doing something funny in a negative way. Now we’ve talked about Rick Rolling before; it’s the art of taking a link and making it attractive to someone (like if you have a friend that likes comics, it would be “Check out the new Thor trailer here!”) and instead it takes you to a youtube video of Rick Astley’s never gonna give you up.

LOLs are funny, because they make you Laugh Out Loud. And so we have a new trending meme that seems to be shooting across the net like wildfire:

The original version is nothing more than a posting of a 1970’s performance of a vocalise song from a russian singer that is lip-synched. Poorly. Yet it is a trainwreck that you cannot stop watching.

Entitled “I am very glad, because I am finally returning back home,” it started wracking up the pageviews. The fact that in a chorus he’s singing LOLOLOL hasn’t hurt its meme status. It’s like he’s laughing at the viewer, to boot. Soon the derivatives spawned.

Star Trek Encounter over planet Trololol

Star Wars Trololo

Plutolo

Britain’s Got Talent Judges Trololol guy:

NSFW…Not Safe For Work (but hilarious) Trololol mashup video:

CollegeHumor’s Hardly Working even has their own take:

And on topic, Hitler gets Troll’d

Of course it’s showing up in mainstream media now, too. The Colbert Report:

Academy Award winner Christoph Waltz (from Inglorious Basterds) and Jimmy Kimmel do a spoof: