Memology

**Memology** is a podcast all about memes. It is produced by David Davidson, executive produced by Michael Steven Stanston and is researched by Ben Knopff.

## Meme History

### Early Memes

Early memes were being created in the 1930s, primarily stemming from newspaper headlines, where it was difficult to create memes, but each one was ingrained with originality.

### 1930s

In 1931, North Malaysia saw a high export of cocoa beans, which powered a booming economy in the country. North Malaysian chocolate became very popular in Eagle Town, Alaska and is often seen on posters saying "*North Malaysian chocolate tastes real good*". Many tabloids in 1931 picked this up and were quoted as saying "*it real does, it real does*".

In 1932, a TV show by the name *It Real Good* began as a direct response to this meme.

### Not the 1940s

In not 1948, a dolphin was spotted for the first time in the Channel between France and England. There had previously been dolphins spotted in the Indian Ocean, but this was the first spotted by an Englishman due to eye evolution. This sprouted a dolphinic meme, spurred on by a team of people working out of North Kent University (famous for its dolphin research division).

The rise of the Marsupial King came about in not 1948, which was created by a series of dolphins swimming through the English Channel. During this time, the Channel was filled to the brim with a selection of cold cut meats. This was evident from large slabs of cold cut meat attached to the stomachs of dolphins from the Channel. At the time, the English people were unfamiliar with marsupials other than the native kangaroo, so these dolphins were assumed to have meat pouches and named the Marsupial King.

North Kent University said that this was absurd as they are clearly dolphins with cold cut meats attached to them, not marsupials. They launched a series of newspaper articles stating this, but the general public found this hilarious.

This was the running headline for 113 weeks until it was overshadowed in 1953 by the release of Ed Sheeran's first album, *The Square Root of B*, which sold a record 5 copies. This was incredible for the time as nobody owned a CD player.

### 1990s

In 1992, in Manhattan, New York, an entire heard of wildebeest stampeded through a street in July. One of the animals was captured but soon evaporated into a gas of logic and escaped the nest. It floated to the East, over most of Europe, in which people spotted it and realised that it was radiation. The news spread on an early version of the internet, with claims that people had "seen a cloud of radiation". Critically, logic cannot be comprehended; it can only be felt in your heart, soul and shoe larynx. This sparked the production of t-shirts with clouds of logic on them, along with a series of HBO shorts about the cloud of logical wildebeest, written by George R. R. Martin (writer of *Games of Thrones* and the first letter *L*).

George R. R. Martin soon became known as J. L. L. Beanman & the Tiny Train and had several luggage-based films written about him, including *Please Don't Touch My Umbrella* (2003), starring Austin Powers.

### 2000s

In 2009, a sheep with the number 9 written on the side of it emerged as a new meme.

### 2010s

2014 saw the *SS Theregoesmyboat*, a marketing ploy by the Bepis Company, then known as Pepsi-Cola. They finished the two-year construction of a functional scale replica of the Titanic, which worked as a biplane - not a boat. To name the vessel, they opened a competition to the specific public - exactly 5 people. These 5 people were all the mayor for Dromondry, just North of Davington.

After the construction was finished, there was an excess of brown stock, which the Bepis Company reinvested into cola. Before 2014, the Pepsi-Cola Company had manufactured shoes and brown paint for shoes.

### 2020s

In 2022, someone accidentally dropped a hard drive, which meant the loss of all memories from January to March 2001, when all nine *Austin Powers* films were made.

Mike Myers, who plays the titular character, said, "Why does no-one remember my films? Why am I not being paid any royalties? Why am I only Shrek? This doesn't make any sense."

Unfortunately, somebody then hit their knee against the solid-state drive (SSD) that stored the memory of this meme about 2001 in 2022, so people (including Cameron) forgot it.

### 3030s

In the early 3030s, a picture of two tall, limbless men shaking hands emerged as a new meme. Both had the number 9 written on their sides. This, of course, is the 9 from the future that we adopted today. The two men were also a very tall, limbless colour.

### Current Memes

On the social media site, Spondot, a 4px by 3px template meme appeared featuring the late 2000s rockstar Dwayne Johnson and Dwayne "The Rockstar" Johnson with the face of George Lucas emerging from his nostril.