Topic: Meme
Pages: 4
Sources: 3
Format: MLA
Instructions:
1. a claim about whether the meme you selected is a meme, 2. how it meets the qualifications of the meme (remember you can discuss Huh’s definition (NPR) or Dawkins and 3. What the cultural significance is.
The meme I chose is the song called Gangname Style by Psy. I believe it follows the Dawkin’s definition turned into Huh’s definition.
Back in 2012 a huge explosion came across the Pacific Ocean, it rattled the cultural core of to how fast we can receive and download information, it was a song called Gangnam Style By Psy. It was on fast tracking from the depths of South Korea making its way over to the United States. The song was a pure definition of Richard Dawkins definition of a meme where information would echo off of one person to another to becoming Ben Huhs definition where people used the idea and made countless of parodies and side projects because of a single song. (working thesis)
I think the cultural significance was that the song introduced a “sneak peak” into other cultures around us.