Week 14 Website Blog Post: Memes
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- 2024年12月4日
- 讀畢需時 3 分鐘
How does each meme relate to your topic and target audience?
I used the three memes I found and embedded text in the three images to make it more consistent with my site. The theme of my website is to introduce myself, and the target audience is all people in the society, so the audience of the meme I am looking for is also all people in the society. In these pictures, I use humorous words and pictures to introduce some of my background to people: for example, I have been an environmental volunteer, I have Chinese and American cultural background, and I am ready to work.
In Davison's framework, what are the 'ideals' of your chosen memes? (Cite Davison)
“The ideal of a meme is the concept or idea conveyed.”（Davison, 123）The ideal of my meme is to get my message across to people and let people who view my site know more about myself.
What are the "behaviors" of your identified memes? Where do they originate, and how do they spread? (Cite the Know Your Meme database)
1. Success Kid, sometimes known as I Hate Sandcastles, is a reaction image of a baby at a beach with a smug facial expression. It has been used in image macros to designate either success or frustration. In early 2011, the original image was turned into an advice animal style image macro with captions describing a situation that goes better than expected.
Origin
The original image was taken by photographer Laney Griner of her then 11-month-old son Sammy on August 26th, 2007. She posted it to both her personal Flickr account[1] and put it up on Getty Images[6], which has since been removed.
2. Epic Handshake, also known as the Predator Handshake, is a memorable scene from the 1987 science fiction action film Predator in which two men greet each other with an arm-wrestle handshake.
In a scene from the 1987 action-sci-fi film Predator, the character Dutch (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger) is surprised to see his old friend Dillon (portrayed by Carl Weathers) and greets him by exclaiming "Dillon! You son of a bitch" followed by a strong handshake that turns into an arm wrestling match (shown below, left).
3. Batman Slapping Robin, also known as "My Parents Are Dead," is an exploitable image of the DC Comics superhero Batman slapping his protégé Robin in mid-conversation. Taken from a comic book published in 1965, the single-panel illustration has inspired a series of parodies featuring custom-captioned speech bubbles on 4chan, Reddit and elsewhere.
According to the Comics Should Be Good Archive,[1] the panel originated from the 1965 comic book "World’s Finest #153." The story is based around an alternate reality in which Batman believes that Superboy and Superman are responsible for the death of his father.
What are the "manifestations" of your chosen memes, and how are they different from other possible manifestations?
The three memes are: Batman Slapping Robin: Batman interrupts Robin with his slap, usually used to humorously express anger or correct misinformation. Epic Handshake: Used to represent a strong consensus or alliance between two seemingly unrelated groups or ideas. Success Kid: Used to express a small personal determination to win. I use and modify these memes to make them fit the theme of my website: introduce myself, and the audience can get to know me better through these interesting memes.
Conclude by considering how the specific manifestations you have chosen can appeal to your target audience.
I made the above memes to make them conform to the theme of my website: to introduce myself, the audience can get to know me better through these interesting memes, and these memes can be expressed in more obvious ways: For example, in Epic Handshake, I mentioned that I have received cultural training from both China and the United States, and the audience can see my unique background at a glance through the picture of the handshake
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