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Blog Post for September 29, 2014

sarahfy — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 14:48:26 +0000

As a follow up to learning about memes last class, we spent today learning about their animated cousin the GIF. After watching how to make a GIF of Carlton dancing from a Youtube video, I was instructed to create my own. So, I simply complied as Michelle Tanner would. I created a short GIF of young Michelle Tanner from Full House saying one of her most famous lines “You got it, dude.”

I used the Youtube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ff6ghp7iTA and simply added “gif” between www. and youtube.com. Following the prompts I created the GIF below.

Let me know what you think of it!

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Ariana — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 02:26:27 +0000

I chose to create a meme that related to what a student at Virginia Tech may face during their everyday schedule: weather. My audience is any student and possibly faculty member at Virginia Tech. I think this could be effective, because a highly common topic of conversation at Virginia Tech is almost always it’s ever-changing and unpredictable weather. I have always like the Futurama Fry meme, because it matches my sarcastic type of humor. I’m not sure if it’s as commonly known as other types of memes, but I believe it should be easy to identify with.

Blog Post for September 26, 2014

sarahfy — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 17:09:31 +0000

In class today, we discussed the popularity of memes in convey sarcastic inferences about society through a combination of images and text. After taking a look at some common images and the types of messages they convey, we were asked to create out own.

The two memes that I created below are about the frustrations of being an accounting major. The humor in them should be fairly easy to understand, but likely would be funnier to other accounting majors.

I created these memes on memegenerator.com and was frustrated by the limitations of the application. In the first image, I wish that the font was slightly smaller on top and larger on the bottom. In the second image, I wish that the text was more proportional to the amount of blank space.