Rosanna Pansino Quotes

I actually don't mind viral trends. I think most of them are inexplicably really funny.

When we think of memetic culture, it is the 'sausage factory' of the old days.

In the original introduction to the word meme in the last chapter of 'The Selfish Gene,' I did actually use the metaphor of a 'virus.' So when anybody talks about something going viral on the Internet, that is exactly what a meme is, and it looks as though the word has been appropriated for a subset of that.

The Internet now is completely full of memes, and it's interesting, the idea that instead of having a sign crotched on your door or a magnet on your fridge saying whatever cliches and bon mots, pictures laid out with some text are passed around and move really fast.

When that Twitter account came out, @HopperDancingTo, and they put me to all these different songs, I thought that's pretty much one of the funniest things I've ever seen. I watched that for a couple hours straight, him dancing to George Michael and all these stupid songs.

I don't even know what memes are, I'm, like, an old person, so I don't really know what a meme is.

Memes just show that people are engaged about something. A meme is just a little inside joke for a group of people that care about a certain thing.

Our task is to create memes... Launch your meme boldly and see if it will replicate.

I think part of the reason that I have been successful, though, despite maybe not always fitting my message into the pre-packaged formulas, is there is this whole other media ecology out there of the Internet and Instagram and memes and talk shows and comedy, and I'm pretty good at that.

Any time you try to create an Internet meme, automatic fail. That's like the worst thing you can do.

We live in a world in which whatever you do has a parody account online in moments.

Making a fool out of yourself and putting it on the Internet is one of the best bonding experiences you could have.

With Twitter, it's a little harder to tell jokes that somebody hasn't heard already. You have all these people out there sharing their opinions and telling jokes in real time, and by the time you get on, somebody's already done some version of what you're trying to do.

I'm the kind of person, if I see something, like a funny video, I want to share it. With Twitter and Tumblr you can do that on a mass scale, and people get to know your personality.

As far as what makes a viral video, then it's gotta be something that you've either never seen before, a fresh piece of comedy, or something that relates to something topical.

I've been fascinated by the Internet from the very start. In 2001, I had made a funny black-and-white film called 'How to Dance Properly,' a short video of me dancing to a Madonna song. I sent it to 17 of my friends on a Thursday, and by Monday, one million people a day were logging on to view it.

I haven't done Vine in a long time, and when I first started, I just did stuff that I thought was funny.

We didn't expect it to be cool, with people trading URLs instead of phone numbers.

I discovered that funny animal pictures - memes - would get a lot of likes and shares.

When you think of a Vine video, it's like thinking about an experience you've had, which people can relate to.

I love making jokes on the Internet.

I hope that memes jump out of our computers in the future.

For memes, I have an entire iPhone folder of photos that I've taken or saved because I find something about them hilarious.

I have a great sense of humor, I mean even when my meme came out I reposted it. I didn't care. I was laughing, too!

I hate to be one of those people who forwards links to 'hilarious pictures' or 'brilliant games' to half their contacts database.