What Happens When You Piss Off the Internet

Re:What Happens When You Piss Off the Internet by polemic on Sunday March 11, 2012 @03:28PM (#3691030)

You don't own a meme. Heck, that's almost an oxymoron:

"an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture" - http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meme

And who actually makes money from meme's anyway? Is YouTube scum for making money from showing video memes? Likewise for 4chan (the website, not the community) and Reddit? The advertisers that buy ads on those pages? What about memegenerators?

Double standards?

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Re:What Happens When You Piss Off the Internet by smashing on Sunday March 11, 2012 @04:14PM (#3691162)

The obvious answer is that the content being discussed isn't really a meme. They are copyrighted images. The idea of a "Troll Face" can be a meme, surely, but the specific image of a trollface that is widely recognized was obviously copyrighted. If you don't like that then create your own image and release it with a more permissive license like Public Domain.

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Re:What Happens When You Piss Off the Internet by stfu on Sunday March 11, 2012 @06:19PM (#3691441)

Every site mentioned helps to create new memes and supports the "infrastructure" of motivating other to come up with new memes. The meme defense projects seems to try capitalizing from just popular memes by making them even more popular. YouTube,4chan,Reddit are like a complex network of indie music clubs. Meme Defender is acting like a major label, that just takes well known "scene" memes and exploiting them towards a non-meme audience. No wonder the "true fans" are screaming sell-out.

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Re:What Happens When You Piss Off the Internet by notatoad on Sunday March 11, 2012 @09:11PM (#3691907)

What about 'all the things'? It's a frame pulled from a hyperbole and a half comic strip. Are you saying nobody owns that image, just because it's become popular?

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