CNBC's "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer has also made a YouTube video for the latest meme craze — the "Harlem Shake".
Check it out:
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'Mad Money' Host Jim Cramer Does The 'Harlem Shake'
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The Overly-Attached Girlfriend Explains What It's Like Being A Wildly Popular Internet Meme
Last June, 21-year-old Laina Morris uploaded her first-ever YouTube video for a Justin Bieber contest.
The goal of the contest was to take Bieber's popular song, "Boyfriend" and change the lyrics to "Girlfriend." To stand out, Morris wrote her version from the perspective of a stalker.
While Morris only placed second in the competition, she won the Internet. Within 24 hours, her creepy "Girlfriend" song had been watched 1 million times. Soon, her face was being spread across Reddit with white, bold font laid over top of it as a meme dubbed "The Overly-Attached Girlfriend."
Since then, she's been able to turn her meme into a business. She's worked with advertisers such as Kia Soul and she's been on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
What's it like to be an internet sensation, especially for something that's a little bit mortifying?
"It's definitely weird…but it's fun. I like it a lot," Morris tells Business Insider. "It's weird when I go on Pinterest or Reddit for myself just browsing and there I am."
Here's how Morris became famous online, and how her life has changed since she became the Overly-Attached Girlfriend meme.
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The Overly-Attached Girlfriend Explains How To Become A Viral Internet Star By Age 21
Laina is only 21, but she has a knack for making content go viral.
While on a leave of absence from school, she posted her first-ever YouTube video. It was in response to a Justin Bieber contest. Bieber asked fans to turn lyrics for his hit song "Boyfriend" into "Girlfriend." Laina, who aspires to be a comedian like Kristen Wiig, wrote it from the perspective of a stalker.
She woke up the next morning and found her video had been viewed over 1 million times. Shortly after, someone on Reddit took a screen shot of her face from the video and turned her into a hilarious meme, The Overly Attached Girlfriend.
Laina tells us her secret to creating viral content, how she's turned being an Internet meme into a business, and what goes through her mind when she's making that ridiculously creepy face.
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There's A New Word To Describe Inconsiderate Google Glass Users: 'Glassholes' (GOOG)
Venture capitalist John Doerr has been taking a good deal of ribbing for admitting that he likes to wear Google Glass while playing the game Scattergories with his family.
The New York Times' Claire Cain Miller wondered if that was allowed. "It is questionable whether that follows the game's rules," she wrote.
Computer security legend, Bruce Schneier, decided it isn't allowed.
"Questionable? Questionable?" He wrote today on his blog. "It just like using a computer's dictionary while playing Scrabble, or a computer odds program while playing poker, or a computer chess program while playing an in-person game. There's no question at all -- it's cheating."
Schneier then pointed out, "We're seeing the birth of a new epithet, 'glasshole.'"
Urban Dictionary, keeper of all things meme, already has a definition for it. "Glasshole" means "a person who constantly talks to their Google Glass, ignoring the outside world."
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Judge Says Jefferies Was Wrong To Fire Trader For Sending Around A Hitler 'Downfall' Meme
If you spent more than a week on the Internet in the late 2000s, you know the meme.
In a tense scene from the 2004 German movie "Downfall," Hitler lambastes his lieutenants. Parodied subtitles read something completely different.
Hilarity ensues.
Not for a trader at Jefferies Group, who was terminated for sending a version of the viral video where Hitler is Jamie Dimon and the issue at hand is bets on the price of silver.
Now a judge has ruled the firing was wrongful, Bloomberg reports.
Former Asia head of equity trading Grant Williams was fired from Jefferies when he linked to the video in a newsletter to subscribers.
Jefferies management was “hypersensitive” and “irrational,” in its response to the publication of the Dec. 7, 2010 client newsletter, Judge Conrad Seagroatt said in issuing his decision today in Hong Kong’s High Court.
Williams is seeking damages of at least HK$13 million ($1.7 million) for wrongful dismissal and Jefferies’ breach of trust and confidence, his lawyer Kevin Bowers said. Seagroatt said he would issue written reasons for his decision and rule on the damages later.
If anything, the trader should have been fired for using a stale relic of Internet culture. Here's the curse-heavy, "offensive" video.
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Richard Dawkins Starred In A Really Freaky Video About Internet Memes
Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins introduced this year's Saatchi and Saatchi New Directors' showcase in Cannes last week, an event that focused on the theme of memes.
The choice was fitting since Dawkins coined the word "meme" in 1976, long before the word was adapted for the Internet age.
Dawkins original meaning of the term meme — not far-off from its meaning today — was described in his book "The Selfish Gene," where he refers to it as the cultural equivalent of DNA, or anything that is imitated or "spreads like a virus" around a culture through natural selection.
To kick off the event, the professor created an auto-tuned song about Internet memes, which concluded with him playing the the electronic clarinet. The video, of course, has all the ingredients to become its own Internet meme.
Watch the trippy video below. (The song starts around 5-minute mark).
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The Latest Internet Meme, 'InTheWayGuy,' Is Ruining Precious Moments Everywhere
A man who attended Disney World made a last-minute decision to step in front of someone with a camera instead of walking around. And he's been catapulted into everlasting fame.
He's known as InTheWayGuy, or #inthewayguy on Twitter and Instagram, and he's ruining photos everywhere on the Internet.
It began when Nick Landis of Plymouth, Minn. surprised his girlfriend, Erika Boone, at Walt Disney World by suddenly bending his knee and proposing. He had asked a Disney employee to photograph the moment, reports Eonline's John Boone.
But #inthewayguy photo-bombed the picture. Landis later laughed about it, sharing it on Reddit.
Within hours the Reddit post went crazy and an Internet meme was born.
#inthewayguy has now photo-bombed countless other events from the introduction to the royal baby, to the Michelle and Barack Obama post-election-win kiss.
He's now starting to get in the way of enterprise tech CEOs during keynote speeches. First Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff and today, Cisco tweeted this pic:
We tried to get a good photo of John Chambers giving his keynote @ #CLUS, but #InTheWayGuy jumped in. #photobombpic.twitter.com/pQGbwrzmaY
— Cisco Support (@cisco_support) August 5, 2013
Chances are, you'll be seeing a lot more of InTheWayGuy in the weeks and months to come.
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Lil Bub, Famed Internet Cat With Dwarfism, Gets A Backstory In A New Book
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — A Bloomington cat that has become an Internet sensation is branching out with a new book.
The cat known as Lil Bub will star in a book in which she's depicted as a space cat who travels to Earth and hooks up with owner Mike Bridavsky. The book will feature more than 100 photos of Bub and will be released by Penguin on Tuesday.
Lil Bub was born with dwarfism and other genetic defects that affect her appearance. Bridavsky tells The Herald-Times (http://bit.ly/19ZgwIg ) people have embraced her differences as her popularity has exploded.
Bridavsky says proceeds from the book will help animal organizations around the country. He's already raised more than $70,000 for charity through the cat's popularity and says he hopes that figure grows.
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Information from: The Herald Times, http://www.heraldtimesonline.com
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I Went On A Real-Life Quest To Find Internet Meme Scumbag Steve's Hat
Ubiquitous on the web, but scarce in real life—that’s the reality for the Internet’s most famous hat: a wheat-brown, ‘A-Tooth’ style New Era Red Sox cap, otherwise known as the ‘scumbag hat.’
The scumbag hat derives from one the Internet’s most popular memes, Scumbag Steve, which first started appearing in online in January 2011 as a way for people to vent about that one freeloading friend that everyone seems to know.
The one who bums cigarettes, backs out of agreed upon bets, and who definitely used to be that kid who circled Waldo in the Where’s Waldo books when you were growing up.
What started as a meme centered on reposting images of a 16 year-old Blake Boston (who by all accounts is actually a very nice guy in real life) wearing a fur coat and a tacky hat has evolved into a full-fledged phenomenon over the last three years. You can now criticize anyone or anything online by just slapping a ‘scumbag hat’ on them. There’s even a convenient Add Scumbag Hat button on Imgflip’s MemeGenerator that lets you do so.
There’s Scumbag Teacher to criticize unfair and unprepared teachers, Scumbag Brain to call you out on you questionable logic, Scumbag Body to point out things like how your body sinks when you’re drowning but floats when you’re dead and even a Scumbag Fly to complain about how flies never want to cooperate when you’re trying to shoo them out a wide open door.
Companies and organizations find themselves in the crosshairs too. People use the hat to create Scumbag Youtube to criticize video buffer times, Scumbag Congress to condemn the government shutdown, Scumbag Bank to complain about everything from unfriendly hours to shady bank practices and even a Scumbag Reddit to self-police the sometimes-hypocritical nature of its users.
The funny thing, however, is that the hat that’s ever-present online is an extremely rare commodity in real life.
The wheat-brown, ‘A-Tooth’ style Red Sox cap was a style first made available in New Era’s Fall 2007 program.
Andy Barth, General Manager at Hatland.com, one of the New Era’s largest online retailers, said that New Era generally produces quantities based on the orders they’ve received from retailers by certain cutoff dates and that there are minimums that need to be met for a style to be set to production.
“I’m guessing that there were probably less than 1,000 made,” Barth said of the Red Sox version of the hat that appears in the scumbag meme. “We carried that color and style for four teams: the Braves, Giants, Red Sox and Yankees and in total, they probably produced less than 1,000 for each team. So it’s possible that only 4,000 of these exist in total.”
Barth said that the number of units that Hatland ordered from that group “just sat and sat until we started selling them randomly. Little did we know that that’s where this demand was from.”
The initial demand for the style was so tepid that the hat’s most famous owner, Blake Boston, said that his “mother thinks she bought it in a Marshall’s discount store because no one wanted it originally.”
Oh, how Internet fame can change everything. What was once an undesired outcast of a cap might become more rare and valuable than those Beanie Babies and baseball cards that you have socked away in your parents’ attic.
“It’s actually a fluke that I still have the original,” Boston said. “When we moved it somehow got packed into a box that ended up in the basement.”
He should keep a closer eye on his claim to fame, however.
He’s turned down offers of tens of thousands of dollars for his hat in the past, and has repeatedly insisted that it’s not for sale. He’s attended events at SXSW and appeared publicly elsewhere and has a fun time doing so.
“Wherever I go in the Scumbag Steve persona, people either ask to wear or touch it. They sometimes just look freaked and amazed by its actual existence,” said Boston. “I’ve never seen the hat on anyone else in real life.
It’s true that the scumbag hat is a hot commodity. Andy Barth at Hatland said that they sold out of the brown styles in 2012 and that only a few hundred of the white ones remain.
If you’re looking to be a Scumbag Steve for Halloween (or, shall we say Hallo-meme) (sorry) you can find a poorly made Chinese knockoff on eBay.
But don’t be a total scumbag and do that. Boston, who copyrighted his infamous picture, unfortunately doesn’t see a dime from the company who uses his name and likeness to sell the knockoff on eBay. He also doesn’t get a dime from the many apps that let users plaster the hat onto images or game characters.
“It’s kinda shitty in my opinion, but hey, it’s all good,” he added.
Boston does have a company willing to produce the hat but needs a minimum of ten thousand dollars in orders before they produce it. It sounds like a ploy that his Scumbag Steve persona would pull to bum some cash, but after speaking with Boston, I’m convinced that he’s more of a Good Guy Greg, to be honest.
I say if ever there needed to be a Kickstarter created, now’s the time, Internet.
And if there’s ever a time to go digging through your old clothes, you should go check if you happen to have a 1st edition “Scumbag Steve hat” before they return to the market in droves.
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Facebook Wants To Banish Low-Quality Photos — Like LOLCats — From Your News Feed
Facebook just announced a dramatic update to the way that it ranks its News Feed content that will have users seeing more news articles and fewer cute meme photos, like LOLCats.
The company cites an internal survey that apparently showed that people prefer clicking links to high quality articles (about current events, sports, whatever) over the latest memes.
"Starting soon, we’ll be doing a better job of distinguishing between a high quality article on a website versus a meme photo hosted somewhere other than Facebook," the blog post reads. "This means that high quality articles you or others read may show up a bit more prominently in your News Feed, and meme photos may show up a bit less prominently."
It's not clear how facebook is going to make its "quality" judgment. But it appears that you'll be seeing a lot less of LOLCats, Good Guy Greg and 9Gag.
Also, after you click on a link to an article, Facebook may suggest up to three related articles below the post to help you discover more stories.
The new update will also highlight stories that lots of your friends are commenting on. For example, even if you've clicked on and read an article, it may show up again in your News Feed later because a lot of people are commenting on it, with the new comments highlighted.
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Facebook Discovered How Stuff Goes Viral By Analyzing Thousands Of Your Posts
Facebook Data Science did a study on the evolution of Facebook memes.
Memes spread on Facebook much like stories in the telephone game, where one person whispers a secret to the person next to them, and by the time the secret reaches the last person in line, it has evolved into something different.
The team studied one particular meme: “No one should die because they cannot afford health care, and no one should go broke because they get sick. If you agree, post this as your status for the rest of the day."
In September of 2009, over 470,000 Facebook users posted this exact statement as their status update. At some point someone created a variant by prepending "thinks that'' (which would follow the individual's name, e.g., “Sam thinks that no one…”), which was copied 60,000 times. The third most popular variant inserted "We are only as strong as the weakest among us'' in the middle. “The rest of the day” at one point (probably in the late evening hours) became “the next 24 hours”. Others abbreviated it to “24 hrs”, or extended it to “the rest of the week”.
Using anonymized data, there were 121,605 different variants of this particular meme which appeared in 1.14 million status updates.
So how is this similar to genetics?
When studying thousands of viral Facebook memes, "we have a very unique opportunity to actually trace when copies and mutations occurred, and these are the two basic ingredients in the evolutionary process," the data team wrote.
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Jennifer Lawrence's Golden Globes Dress Has Become An Internet Meme
Jennifer Lawrence stole the show at last night's Golden Globes ceremony — but it wasn't just because of her Supporting Actress award win.
While Ryan Seacrest was interviewing Taylor Swift on the red carpet, Lawrence crept up behind Swift, making way for what Seacrest dubbed the best photo of the night.
And now, Lawrence and her white and black accented Dior gown are making their way around the Internet's meme world.
"Teen Wolf" and "Arrow" star, Colton Haynes, got the meme party started with this Instagram.
J.Law meets Ariel.
Dior vs. Disney ai #GoldenGlobes, #JenniferLawrence special guest (via @MTV) pic.twitter.com/C2sR7lbUvp
— ASOS Italia (@ASOS_IT) January 13, 2014Even the kids got in on the action.
This guy strutted his best J. Law look.
Can you see the resemblance?
Toy Peeta gave his co-star's white gown a try.
Inanimate objects, too.
A bottle of wine has never looked better.
And obviously puppies.
Last but certainly not least... cats!
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Here's The Ridiculous 'Planet Hillary' New York Times Magazine Cover That Everyone Is Talking About
The New York Times Magazine unveiled the cover to its upcoming issue on Thursday.
Behold, "Planet Hillary":
It's promoting Amy Chozick's article of the same name, a reference to the "gravitational pull" that seems to be lining Clinton up for a 2016 presidential campaign.
Of course, it didn't take long for the Internet to come up with some new versions:
Miley and Hillary on NYT Mag cover. how weird pic.twitter.com/OxsGxVMUtK
— Chris Carlon (@christofear) January 23, 2014take me to your planet @DPD_pic.twitter.com/wyqJpd4t7X
— Brendan Davis (@notbrendan) January 23, 2014Texts from Planet Hillary: pic.twitter.com/xUT7wrGm5X
— Eli Langer (@EliLanger) January 23, 2014
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Your Favorite Memes Are Getting Turned Into Toys With A 3D Printer
If you could place a physical incarnation of any Internet meme on your night stand, what would you pick? Would you want a tangible, figurine version of a Doge? How about a Nyan cat?
Though there is obviously an IRL Grumpy Cat (and most memes are based on real-life photos and people), 3D printing company, Shapeways, is changing the scope of online fad phenomena. The New York-based group is printing and selling physical versions of "Sad Keanu" (designed by Nancy Liang), the legendary meme inspired by a photo of the Matrix actor eating a sandwich by his lonesome.
Yup, for $45, you can have your own plastic action figure of Reeves looking melancholic and depraved, ensuring that this web-based joke is fully burnt to the ground. On second thought, you could literally burn this meme to the ground, similar to how we used to melt our toy soldiers with magnifying glasses when we were little kids.
Seriously, though, it's cool that 3D printers allow us to extend the value of a meme—but do you think people really want to see these viral tidbids outside of their 13" Macbook screens? At least Shapeways proves that their product can be used for some creative applications, as the below photos illustrate. We'd love to see someone use this mini-Keanu for a stop-motion animation video. Internet, please help us out with this one!
Here are some creative scenes that include the 3D-printed meme:
Here's the original photo of Keanu, in case you're wont to avoid these type of things. That sandwich must have been so mediocre...
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Here's A Photo Of The Guy Behind Goldman Sachs Elevator
Last night Andrew Ross Sorkin revealed the true identity of the man behind the meme, Goldman Sachs Elevator.
He's a 34-year-old former bond executive named John Lefevre who lives in Texas, and he never worked at Goldman but he did work at Citigroup.
And for his purposes, that distinction doesn't matter. His aim was to capture the spirit of a culture that he felt deserved an honest (satirical) treatment.
Anyway, here's a photo of Lefevre that we've obtained. He has a book coming out soon, so you'll probably see this face a lot in the coming months.
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'Grumpy Cat' Hates Everyone At South By Southwest
Internet meme-famous 'Grumpy Cat' is making another public appearance at the South by Southwest Conference in Austin, Texas, and as you would expect, she could care less about the adoring fans.
People have been lining up to meet the real-life cat at the Mashable House and get their picture taken, but the cat known to sport a permanent frown is totally unimpressed. While she made an appearance last year, she's still a crowd favorite.
Grumpy Cat, a nearly 2-year-old mixed breed named Tardar Sauce, became internet-famous last year after one of her handlers, Bryan Bundesen, posted a photo of her to Reddit.
#GrumpyCat and @mcuban backstage at #SXSWi#CATCASHpic.twitter.com/WqQZkFUDxd
— Grumpy Cat (@RealGrumpyCat) March 8, 2014#GrumpyCat and @LateNightSeth hanging out backstage #SXSWi#CATCASH#SXSWpic.twitter.com/ROL2BVEx1A
— Grumpy Cat (@RealGrumpyCat) March 8, 2014And a few from last year:
Correction: An earlier version of this article said this was the cat's first public appearance. That was actually last year. We apologize for the error.
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A Disturbing Internet Legend May Have Driven Two 12-Year-Old Girls To Stab Their Friend 19 Times
Two 12-year-old girls from Waukesha, Wisconsin, have been charged with first-degree attempted homicide after allegedly stabbing their friend this past weekend as an offering to a fictional internet character called Slender Man.
Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier face up to 65 years in prison.
The Journal Sentinel reports "the victim, whose name has not been released, was stabbed Saturday 19 times, including in the heart, one of the wounds barely missing a major artery."
It's a confusing story, so we'll try to piece it together here.
What (or who) is Slender Man?
Slender Man is an internet urban legend created by Something Awful forums user Eric Knudsen in 2009.
The fictional man is depicted as tall and thin with a featureless face, dressed in a black suit and hides in the woods. According to the Wikipedia page, "Slender Man is commonly said to stalk, abduct, or traumatize people, particularly children."
Since 2009, Slender Man has gone viral, appearing in various stories on sites like CreepyPasta, games, and apps. Aleks Krotoski, a commentator for BBC Radio 4, called the Slender Man "the first great myth of the web."
He is depicted in lots of different ways, as you can see from the search below:
"She seemed normal," [a friend] said, referring to Weier.
The Daily Dot reports that after the girls spent tons of time obsessing over Slender Man (Weier even had a picture of Slender Man as the background on her iPad) they allegedly believed Slender Man was "watching" their families and asked them to kill someone, believing if they could carry out a murder, Slender Man would spare their families and take them to his mansion.
The murder would make the girls what some corners of the web call proxies — those who are under the influence and control of Slender Man.
According to peers, Geyser and Weier were good friends with their victim, and planned the murder attempt for many months.
The Journal Sentinel says the victim was "one millimeter away from certain death."
Charged as adults
Pre-teens Geyser and Weier are currently being tried in Waukesha County Circuit Court as adults. The girls’ attorney hopes to "reverse waive" them into juvenile court, with a maximum sentence of 13 years.
Nancy Kaser-Boyd, a forensic psychologist at Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, told the Journal Sentinel that the girls' actions were rare, but that "typical 12-year-old children know that killing a person is a permanent action."
"Plotting such an action over many weeks, and whispering about it on the bus, as one of the girls told police they did, demonstrates a malevolence," she was quoted saying.
"There is a sadistic quality to that."
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Federal Agency Apologizes After Tweeting 'Bridesmaids' Meme Mocking Students On Financial Aid
The Federal Student Aid agency apologized early Wednesday morning after a tweet from its official account late Tuesday night seemed to mock students who apply for financial aid.
The @FAFSA tweet read "If this is you, then you better fill out your FAFSA: fafsa.gov," accompanied by a image from the movie "Bridesmaids" with the caption "Help me. I'm poor." In the scene depicted, which has become a popular meme, Kristen Wiig's heavily intoxicated character tries to sneak into the first class cabin of an airplane.
The FAFSA is the Free Application for Federal Student Aid and determines a student's eligibility to receive financial aid from the federal government.
Here's the offensive tweet, via a screenshot from Twitter's iPhone app:
The "Bridesmaids" tweet was deleted late Tuesday night and the @FAFSA twitter account sent out this apology early Wednesday morning:
We apologize for the insensitivity of our previous tweet. Our goal is to make college a reality for all. We're very sorry.
— Federal Student Aid (@FAFSA) June 25, 2014The U.S. Department of Education released the following statement on the FAFSA tweet Wednesday morning:
"We apologize for this insensitive Twitter post, which flies in the face of our mission of opening doors of opportunity for every student. It was an ill-conceived attempt at reaching students through social media. We are reviewing our process for approving social media content to ensure it reflects the high standards we expect at the U.S. Department of Education."
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7 Memes That Make Mega Money
All around the web, from Facebook to Tumblr to 4chan, memes rule. While usually the goal behind these internet inside jokes is to make you laugh, some of these memes mean serious business.
YouTube can provide a significant source of income by itself. But when a YouTube star can take their talents elsewhere, that's when the money usually starts to roll in.
We looked into 7 web celebs who found fame and fortune from YouTube. All the YouTube earning estimates are from the social analytics site Social Blade, and are meant to simply provide a frame of reference.
Grumpy Cat
The iconic sourpuss could be grabbing anywhere from $2,200 to $18,900 from his YouTube channel, but with merchandise deals, it's likely Tartar Sauce is earning more than that. The Washington Post reports Grumpy Cat had grabbed cash in "the low six-figures" as of last spring. Those figures don't include the feline's movie deal with Lifetime for this coming winter's "Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever."
Numa Numa
The meme that never dies. Numa Numa might have started with the world laughing at him, but Gary Brolsma joined in on the fun with a YouTube channel that could grab as much as $14,4000 every year. Two years after the initial video blew up, Brolsma returned with a video called "New Numa,"along with a contest for fans to submit their videos where 50 winners grabbed $45,000 in prize money. Three years after that, Geico revived the Numa yet again, this time with the iconic Gecko.
David After Dentist
Since that fateful trip to the dentist in 2009, David Devore's drugged up antics have netted his family more than $150,000. Through a combination of YouTube ad sales and merchandise, the family has certainly cashed in on the cultural phenomenon that has Joseph Gordon Levitt still laughing in 2014.
See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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Obama Has Historic Meeting With Man In Horse Head Mask
President Barack Obama was in Denver, Colorado Tuesday night where he had a close encounter with a man in a horse head mask. These masks are quite popular and have become something of an internet meme.
Obama apparently shook hands with the masked man after eating dinner at the Wazee Supper Club with five people who wrote him letters. Following his meal, Obama went into the street to greet crowds that had formed outside the restaurant.
According to a press pool report written by Wall Street Journal White House correspondent Colleen McCain Nelson, "one onlooker wore a large horse head."
"It's unclear what message he hoped to convey to the president," Nelson added.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider asking how the president reacted to meeting the man in the horse head mask or whether there was any concern he might be a security threat.
Luckily, photographers were on hand to capture pictures of the historic meeting between the president and the man in the meme horse head mask. View photographs of the encounter below.
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