Meme Experiments

As mentioned in a recent post, here are some of my experiments in creating Internet memes … and even I have to admit that not all of them are particularly successful [insert sad emoji here].  A short description of how I came to produce each meme accompanies the image. (Click on an image to see the full-size image.)

MEME                                         COMMENTS

The original image of Robby the Robot from the movie Forbidden Planet (out of Shakespeare’s The Tempest) as Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes comes from an unsuccessful TV pilot.  My text addition echoes the popular (but inaccurate) Sherlockian quote “Elementary, my dear Watson”.

See also my fictional autobiography of Robby.

I’ve already explained the origins of this meme in my post …It ain’t necessarily so….
This meme came about entirely by accident. I was watching the 2020 Olympic Games (held, of course, in 2021) when I noticed that the swimmer from China, Wang Shun, had won his event. Naturally, the British band Wang Chung would have celebrated the win with their best-known song.  
Based on a true story. I was reading a Facebook post where somebody opined that the movie The 190 Commandments was their favourite Biblical epic. All I needed to do was find an image of Moses receiving said commandments from the Deity. (Everybody makes mistakes.)

Not all Internet memes are played solely for laughs. The Australian government went to the COP26 talks on climate change in 2021 with a wonderful “plan” that essentially was to do nothing for ten years and then hope for a miracle.

In 1970, the Monty Python comedy performed a sketch set in a cafeteria where Spam was mentioned almost as often as the Australian government’s “plan”.
Another type of meme puts the face of a famous or important person — often a politician — into a familiar image as a comment on the behaviour or popular perception of that person.  Here are a few examples. (Click on each example to see the full-size image.)