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I don't know if its just me, but did anyone really know about the interview before north korea supposedly hacked sony?
Remember how we all watched it out of spite for north korea, even though its very likely that it was a inside job to promote the movie?
Remember how NK denied it, but we still watched it in spite, it wasn't even that good.
Remember the paul blart meme? i don't remember anyone making paul blart expand dongs, but they randomly appeared, and they weren't even funny.
Now we have the Charlie Charlie challange? is it real? none of my irl friends have done it, it even looks like another movie promotional meme.
Is this the future the internet is taking, where corporations are jamming internet culture for their own interests? has it always been like this? will they're ever be a real meme after the 2010s?

Paranoia much?

Remember how we all watched it out of spite for north korea, even though its very likely that it was a inside job to promote the movie?

There were several government forces who said it was likely the hack came from NK. Can you share some sources that call it an inside job?

Remember how NK denied it, but we still watched it in spite

In a perfect world, everyone admits their crimes the second they are accused of it. Man if it only was so easy because a dictatorship like NK admitting its wrongs makes so much sense #sarcasm.

i don’t remember anyone making paul blart expand dongs, but they randomly appeared

Because apparently you're omnipresent on the web?

Next you'll tell us the Sonic For Real Justice mods are secretly Sega employees.

> Next you'll tell us the Sonic For Real Justice mods are secretly Sega employees

Although that would be funny as fuck…..

I don't think corporations are savvy enough to create memes. They're slow, cumbersome giants that will latch onto existing memes for a little piece of the internet pie, but lack the speed and wit needed to create them.

…it even looks like another movie promotional meme.

The key to marketing is to actually market something. What is it allegedly promoting? Pencils? If it doesn't actually raise interest in the product, it's not doing a very good job.

I object to the blart argument because:

1. you saying they are not funny is like, your opinion, man and

2. Nobody watched paul blart 2 aside from the one guy on /r/circlejerk who said he'd jack off to it.

This should sum it up.

This sounds like Illuminati conspiracy crap, like you even use the words "inside job" without joking somewhere in there. Yeah like RM said all your points are pretty much bunk. And also "most" is quite an assertion to make. Possibly one or two at most but not all of them. Like people saying "I never saw it outside of KYM so it's not a meme" is a pretty dumb point of view to have since you aren't everywhere and like twisty said "funny" is highly subjective. I've lost breath laughing from some of the Blart ones no matter how stupid. And again with the Charlie Charlie thing you use the "I haven't seen it" thing. Memes don't all have to be Gangnam Style famous. And personally I saw a few Youtubers do it and even a friend who tried it.

No way. There are tropes and discourses that happened this way but they're limited in number. Most of those weren't even intentional, it's just that actors with stronger platforms have greater influences on language. Now, the small number of actual occurences are things like "Rachel Carson is worse than Hitler" or "Wind power and solar are as dangerous as coal because they can harm birds". These are hardly memes as far as the common internet usage of the word goes. I can't think of many successful memes that started as you described, other than benign jokes like Old Spice. There are no shadow organiations or industries making memes.

The Grumpy Cat thing, is just pure cancer. There was never anything good about it, and they made it worse by making it into a franchise.

I'd never defend the franchise but at least the inception of the meme was organic.

By 2012 KYM was filled with random cat memes.

That isn't exactly much of an argument, as rikameme's point still stands.

Some memes are indeed rather forced. A few years there was an article:

You didn’t make the Harlem Shake go viral--corporations did

I-I watched Paul Blart 2…