The Live and Times of a New Meme

Sara and Jasper kick back with beers and watch the laptop screen as the story unfolds.

Within a matter of hours, the video has garnered nearly a quarter of a million page views. The androgenous Chris Crocker has posted a Youtube response to the Ben Schumin video, gushing his praise for the comedic crotch-kick. "The man looks like a potato with legs," he says. "And what's with the mask, anyway? V for Vendetta is so last year! Can you say 'Pretentious?'" Within a few more hours, several remix videos have appeared, slowing it down, setting it to music or simply looping it in creative ways.

"Hey, we haven't checked 4chan yet," says Sara. "It has to have reached the /b/tards by now."

"Yes, and there's a reason for that," Jasper replies. "4chan is full of retarded assholes, asocial psychotics, idiot forum trolls, people who apparently worship all things asian, crap photoshops and anime pictures of underage girls taking a dump. There are people there who should be locked in their basements and the room filled with concrete." Jasper shudders slightly.

Sara chuckles. "And your own reaction is more than enough reason to check it. Come on, grow a pair."

"It is the rectal cancer of the internet."

"Well, screw you. I want to see what /b/ has done to this." She turns the laptop and types in the URL.

1. And so they do. What HAS /b/ done to the video?
2. Jasper grabs Sara's laptop and runs screaming from the room.
3. Hard-up for fresh content (the stupider the better) the entertainment industry starts stealing video ideas from Youtube and /b/. See the New York Times review of their video HERE!
4. Schumin bitches about it, predictably.
5. ...until he gets his own television series. But by that time, Old Meme is Old.
6. its a photoshop, i can tell from the pixls. ive seen many a shop in my time.
7. Schumin sics his ninjas on Sara and Jasper.

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