{"id":202,"date":"2008-07-17T23:23:56","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T04:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinomara.com\/2008\/07\/17\/memepocalipse\/"},"modified":"2008-07-17T23:23:56","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T04:23:56","slug":"memepocalipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/?p=202","title":{"rendered":"memepocalipse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back Flickr finally started listing statistics for those of us who are paid users.  This makes it so much easier to track where an image of mine has been featured or discussed.  I was tracking one recently and I found that someone in a gamer forum had linked it, so I followed it back and found this post.  It&#8217;s standard internet meme garbage but hey, since I was part of the result I was amused.<\/p>\n<p><I>This is for a game called Your Debut Album<\/p>\n<p>1 &#8211; Go to <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:Random\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:Random<\/A><br \/>\nThe first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.<\/p>\n<p>2 &#8211; Go to random quotations: <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.quotationspage.com\/random.php3\">http:\/\/www.quotationspage.com\/random.php3<\/A><br \/>\nThe last four words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.<\/p>\n<p>3 &#8211; Go to Flickr&#8217;s &#8220;explore the last seven days&#8221; <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/explore\/interesting\/7days\/\">http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/explore\/interesting\/7days\/<\/A><br \/>\nThird picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.<\/p>\n<p>Put it all together, that&#8217;s your debut album.<\/I><\/p>\n<p>So someone did all that and posted:<\/p>\n<p><I>Band: Speech of Silence<br \/>\nalbum name: Say, and then speak.<br \/>\nCover:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kevinomara\/2619492506\/\" title=\"There is a perfectly valid reason for me having done this por Brother O'Mara, en Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3057\/2619492506_7c5de6ee1d_m.jpg\" width=\"179\" height=\"240\" alt=\"There is a perfectly valid reason for me having done this\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The name and album are awesome, the cover is scary<\/I><\/p>\n<p>For some reason the multiple references to silence or speaking paired with a picture of me looking like a coal miner zombie just cracks me up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back Flickr finally started listing statistics for those of us who are paid users. This makes it so much easier to track where an image of mine has been featured or discussed. I was tracking one recently and I found that someone in a gamer forum had linked it, so I followed it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tidbit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}