For the meme assignment, I went a little out of the box. I used a less popular photo and added my own caption to create this masterpiece, which is up for interpretation:

My meme can be taken in multiple ways. It can be taken in a figurative sense, where the expression on the dog’s face is a reaction to the feeling of having a messy room-mate. The dog is making a passive aggressive facial expression, where it not only looks frustrated, but also just plain grossed out.

Then, there is the literal sense, which is where my inspiration came from. This weekend, a new room-mate was introduced into my apartment, much to my annoyance. It’s a micro teacup pig that my human room-mate bought and brought to school. It’s only a few weeks old, so it smells, it squeals, and it just does weird things. I’m not amused by its screeching in the middle of the night, so I decided to make a meme about it.

World, meet Stanley: 

So, to my future room-mates, all I have to say is do not ever go buy a pig and bring it to our apartment, or you will see that same look on my face as the meme I created.

Today we learned about memes, this is the a moon moon meme that I created. I hope you enjoy it

After class the other day when we were discussing memes, I walked out to the bus stop and saw my bus coming down the street and immediately fist pumped. The bus comes roughly every 15 minutes, so missing the bus can be a real pain, but every once in a while I will get lucky catch the bus right when it pulls up to the stop. This is especially lucky in the winter when it is cold or when it is raining. The other day I was feeling under the weather and was not looking forward to waiting outside for 10-15 minutes, but when I saw that beautiful Blacksburg Transit bus coming down the street, I immediately thought of the “Success Kid meme,” which is a picture of a small child who is making a fist and a face that makes it look like he is excited or pleased with something that has happened to him. This has been a very popular meme on the internet for a few years now and is one of my personal favorites.

Meme Time.

I created this in Photoshop, and it puns off of the catch line for a popular video game called Portal, which states “Now you’re thinking with Portals.” In the game you control “portals” to complete tasks while trapped in an underground testing facility controlled by a maniacal robot interface. At some point she states this is a creepily cold and calculated robot voice that really digs in how the brain-washing is affecting you, whether you like it or not. Similarly, if you read memes a lot, you begin to automatically draw connections to them in your life, processing and assimilating information and situations into these various frameworks. Welcome to the Twilight Zone!

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