History Main / MemeticMutation

* RulesOfTheInternet: A list of Internet customs originating from Website/FourChan.

* YouTubePoop: Website/YouTube videos consisting of random clips, images and audio edited together to create all sorts of bizarre scenes.

* ''Advertising/ViveSinDrogas'': An advertising campaign from Mexico with a rapping flower telling you not to use drugs. The rapping flower gets a lot of memes out of it in Mexico.

->'''Monsoon:''' Free will is a myth. Religion is a joke. We are all pawns, controlled by something greater: Memes. The DNA of the soul. They shape our will. They are the culture -- they are everything we pass on. Teach someone to anger long enough, they will learn to hate. They become a carrier. Envy, greed, despair... All memes. All passed along.\\

->''"Most of what is unusual about man can be summed up in one word: 'culture'. I use the word not in its snobbish sense, but as a scientist uses it. Cultural transmission is analogous to genetic transmission in that, although basically conservative, it can give rise to a form of evolution."''
-->-- '''UsefulNotes/RichardDawkins''', ''The Selfish Gene'', Chapter 11

* ''Fanfic/FluffyPony''

* ''WebOriginal/VirginVsChad'': A comparison meme in which two characters, the "Virgin" (a pathetic wimp) is contrasted with the "Chad" (a cool badass), with the Virgin and Chad being used to represent many different kinds of people or concepts.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[LetsPlay/{{Jacksepticeye}} It's meme time, it's meme time; gather all your friends, it's meme time; it's meme time, it's meme time; the only cure for sadness!]] ''[[LetsPlay/{{Pewdiepie}} *clap clap*]]''[[note]][[https://web.archive.org/web/20191015015705/http://0.static.collegehumor.cvcdn.com/images/memeposter/the-internet-wallpaper.jpg Full version.]][[/note]]]]

* ''FanFic/AngryMarinesRubyQuest''
* ''JustForFun/AtheistProfessorCopypasta'': A copypasta meme concerning an UrbanLegend about a {{Straw|Liberal}} [[HollywoodAtheist Atheist]] [[PoliticallyMotivatedTeacher college professor]].

** ''WebOriginal/JeffTheKiller'': A wide-eyed, pale-faced SerialKiller who was a fairly notorious creepypasta character.

* ''WebOriginal/FluffyPony''

* {{Catchphrase}}: A quotation that a fictional character is famous for frequently saying.
** TheCatchphraseCatchesOn: When a famous catchphrase or other quote gets repeated outside its original context.

* MemeticHandGesture

If you'd like to keep up with the memes of the day, go to Website/KnowYourMeme, or [[https://meme.fandom.com/wiki/Teh_Meme_Wiki Teh Meme Wiki]] on Fandom, or [[http://www.lurkmore.com/wiki/Main_page The LURKMORE Wiki]] ({{NSFW}}), or the fine folks at [[http://www.encyclopediadramatica.wiki Encyclopedia Dramatica]] (even more NSFW). These are all examples of great resources for the memes themselves and the enigmatic culture around them, but beware the interstitials. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned. On the other hand, if you just want to learn who starts many of these, see FountainOfMemes. These are probably the most common source of SurrealHumor.

* StupidStatementDanceMix: Turning a meme-worthy quote into a remixed song.

* StockParodyJokes: Common ways of spoofing particular works of fiction that you've likely seen more than a few times before.

* ''YouTubePoop'': Website/YouTube videos consisting of random clips, images and audio edited together to create all sorts of bizarre scenes.

* ''WebAnimation/YouTubePoop'': Website/YouTube videos consisting of random clips, images and audio edited together to create all sorts of bizarre scenes.

** RuleFifty: There is {{crossover}} fanfiction between any two different works of fiction.

*** SlenderManStandIn: [[{{Expy}} Imitators and parodies]] of the Slender Man.

* ''WebVideo/HitlerRants'': Parody videos consisting of edited clips with [[GagSub fake subtitles]] from the German UsefulNotes/WorldWarII film ''Film/Downfall2004'', featuring UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler (played by Creator/BrunoGanz) furiously complaining about various weird subjects or getting into absurdly ridiculous situations.