This video by Youtuber Hungrybear9562 just exploded all over the internet this past week. On January 8th 2010 Bear comes across a stunning view of two rainbows and proceeds to lose his shit. At first it sounds like he is having an orgasm, but then he starts crying asking "what does it mean?". Most people think he is high, but I think the man just loves him some rainbows. 

As of this post it has skyrocketed to 1,715,856 views:

As you can see it took quite some time for this video to be discovered. As soon as it was found it spread fast.

Soon after, the parodies followed:

Double Drive-Thru

Double Rainbow Auto-tune

As we saw with the flying fish video, people just seem to love enthusiastic reactions to nature. 

Do you notice and recognize rainbows?

(KYM, BuzzFeed)

When I first read The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins, the idea of the meme immediately grabbed my attention. I was still in high school, and the word had not yet been picked up by the general populace. Richard Dawkins was only known as a famous evolutionary biologist, and the biggest internet meme was hampster dance.

I am disappointed that memetics is still struggling as a science, but I think it is only a matter of time until it is accepted in the scientific community. Darwinizing Culture: The Status of Memetics as a Science is an interesting read, and covers many of the heated debates about memetics.

This TED talk by Susan Blackmore is a nice quick introduction to memes.  The Meme Machine was one of the first books to defend memetics as a science.

Daniel C. Dennett approached religion from a memetic standpoint in Breaking the Spell.

Keep in mind when Darwin came up with natural selection, no one had any idea what the mechanism behind it was. Mendel's work was not recognized until the early 20th century.

I can't wait till we are able to decode the mechanics of meme replication. Memetic engineering may sound a bit unsettling, but it has been going on since before we even knew what a meme was.

Thalassophobia is a morbid fear of the sea that has led to some interesting image memes. Threads with images of giant sea creatures threatening tiny humans are not uncommon these days.

Magnathorax:

This creature was made up with other myths about the Bermuda Triangle.

Giant Arthropod:

Giant Coelacanth:

Lovecraftian Horror Monster:

Do Not Want:

Megalodon:

I completely understand why this meme is big. Whenever I'm in the ocean I imagine gigantic creatures like this below me.

As far as I can tell this meme is limited to 4chan, but I could be wrong.

Related posts: Cephalopod Memes

It all started with:

Then came the photoshops:

Keanu Is Hungry

Half Life 2 Keanu

Keanu With Cats

Cat Keanu

Keanu Friend

Keanu Cold Puppy (Original)

This one is interesting because people seem to really feel bad for him. This image detailing his tragic life is usually associated with the meme. Articles about Keanu's generosity have been popping up as well.

There is even a "Cheer Up Keanu Day" event page on facebook.

- Original reddit post

This ArcAttack performance at the Bay Area's Maker fair is pretty badass, and made me remember the other Tesla coil music videos out there. Spitting out notes with electricity is probably one of the coolest things you can do as a musician.

Ghostbusters:

Super Mario Theme:

The Legend of Zelda:

Medley:

Keyboard:

Check out ArcAttack's Tesla coil emulator.

Related post: Drunk History - Nikola Tesla

Movie genres obviously have a formula for their trailers. A brilliant meme was born when someone figured out that you can take any movie, edit some scenes with the right music, and create a trailer for an entirely different genre. 

Brokeback to the Future:

This is my favorite, and most of you have probably already seen it. (Related: Frighteners outakes)

500 Days of Summer: Thriller Version:

With a different score you can change the poor emo douche into a fucking psychopath. This is the latest meme of this variety.

The Shining: Romantic Comedy Version:

I could totally see corny white people loving this POS.

Mrs. Doubtfire: Thriller Version:

This one works well because Robin Williams really is psycho.

Top Gun: Don't Ask Don't Tell Version:

This is pretty adorable.

Office Space: Stapler Horror Version:

This reminded me of my favorite YTMND.

Taxi Driver: Romantic Comedy Version:

This one is hilarious just for adding that awful Postal Service song. You can sub in Owl City for the same effect. 

I posted this to BuzzFeed the other day and it went viral fairly quickly. This guy's reaction to nature footage is just great. I love how he titled the video "This is why evolution is awesome". I'm glad he didn't take the Insane Clown Posse "fucking miracles" approach.

This reminds me of the first time I saw a cephalopod change color.

This short pixel art/chiptunes documentary is great. One of my favorite indie game developers Jason Rohrer makes an appearance.

I found this awesome website sarien.net where you can play old Sierra adventure games ported to Javascript and Canvas (via @OMGWTFGAMES). You can actually join other player's games and talk to them. I basically learned how to read playing Space Quest. I just had a flashback from when I was 5 years old and accidentally formatted the hard drive on my 386. My dad was pissed.

If you have an Android phone check out GrandMasterPixel by OMGWTFGAMES. It's a pixel art game with an RPG element.

If you like chiptunes, check out Henry Homesweet. He has quite a few free downloads up on that lastfm page.

Related posts: The 8-bit Meme

This parrot video reminded me how much I love these dubstep remixes. 

Wobblegirl remixes the famous flu shot girl video. It's ok to laugh; she was miraculously cured, or faked it.

Dubstep dog is a remix of beatbox dog (also trolololed).

These videos remind of dubstep versions of baptazia. There are Van Damme and senior citizen dubstep videos as well.

I love anything with Little Superstar. That guy just rules.

One of my favorite dubstep songs:

GhostDubsters Instrumental by NR01

There is something really fun about communicating with image files. Some of my favorites are:

Shocked intellectual dog.

Derp.

There's a few variations of this one - ¯\(°_o)/¯. 

So many Picard image memes. While I love the original facepalm.jpg, I think everyone has seen it already.

Bat country.

BAWWWWW Dawson. My personal favorite.

Yea I really have an entire folder filled with these.