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Article on memes 
(somewhat relevant )
The Hindu : Life & Style / Metroplus : Mad about meme
(somewhat relevant )The Hindu : Life & Style / Metroplus : Mad about meme
Full article here: http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/metroplus/article2774742.ece
The Internet meme produces fresh, evolving waves of humour that may be obscure, appalling or niche, points out Anurag Tagat
The Japanese are certainly notorious for their use of fractured English, and part of the infamy has its origins in the 1998 video game Blazing Star. On losing or dying during the shoot 'em up arcade, the phrase "you fail it!" would appear across the screen.
Now a popular utterance extracted from the meme culture (pronounced to rhyme with 'team'), one is beginning to find ' fail' – as well as its antonym 'win' - being used in daily, real-life conversations. The current usage of the term 'fail' (and its alternate 'epic fail') is best exploited on the Internet, by websites such as failblog.org
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Sunneith Revankar has contributed to Memebase in the past, and is constantly looking out for situations to find humour in. For Revankar, subtle and witty humour tops the list. "Something like the image with a sign that says ' Private sign. Do not read', or the one with the exam paper on which the professor has drawn Gandalf saying 'You shall not pass'," he says. The process of getting inspired for original material is not a task for him either. "I think the idea of a meme is going viral: to take a famous phenomenon and to make it funny. It gets even funnier when only the niche audience understands it. That's when the obscurity comes in." Interestingly, Revankar's words certainly sum up the current classification of the Internet meme culture — on the one hand, there are cats, 'demotivational' posters and rage comics and YouTube videos parodying a now-iconic outburst by Hitler. On the other hand, there are new memes being created every other day, which is indicative of its novelty value, but also a sign that existing memes may not stand the test of time.
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Raging success
TamBrahmRage.com became an instant hit with all age groups when Krish had posted only a few comics. Later on, he gave blog visitors the option to create and submit their own rage comic. "If you are quite good with Photoshop, and have the Ragemaker tool, it doesn't require any special skills," he says, explaining that accepting contributions and submissions for TamBrahmRage gave him "editorial control", which in turn allowed him to make the comic more accessible. "I wanted to evoke a sense of nostalgia. Every demographic has its own rage comic now: Punjabi and Bengali rage comics are becoming quite popular," he says. Krish holds that meme humour will certainly not die out "as long as there are interesting stories to tell."
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