Jaboukie Young-White Quotes

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 love making fun of YouTubers.

We're trying to be a content destination for viral images and to be an entertainment destination in general.

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.

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

I started using the Internet heavily right around the time when memes started to become their own form of entertainment. I started to get into every side of the Internet around 13-ish.

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.

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

I'm a sucker for Thought Catalog. Shelby Fero is really funny on Twitter. And Patton Oswalt, he's sort of like a Twitter throb.

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

In the end, the whole Internet thing kills me, because you can use it as a positive thing or you can read into all the negativity. And I think you've gotta put out positive energy, put out cool viral stuff, and then just stay out of people's opinions.

I do watch a lot of YouTube.

I love making jokes on the Internet.

The Internet is a sketch show.

I just liked making funny videos, content that people would enjoy. The likes and retweets - that was, like, a plus.

I enjoy YouTube like everyone else.

The hilarity or brilliance of a forwarded link is inversely proportional to the number of people it's sent to.

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

I was always making memes, and now I have music.

A good joke can spread throughout the Internet between the time you go to bed and the time you wake up, leading to an inbox filled with pictures of funny cats and cheeseburgers.

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.

I think my favorite thing is when people send me Instagram photos of people's yearbooks, and one guy will put "Are you calling me a liar?," and his friend will have "I ain't calling you a truther." And those are people's actual yearbook quotes. That's so amazing.

I feel like comedy is doing well right now because there's so many avenues to be seen. Whether it's through the Internet with social media or web videos and now there's so many networks and TV shows.

A joke isn't a joke until someone laughs.