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Summer Blockbusters: Meme Edition

Kevin Buist
By Kevin Buist posted 4 months ago
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The first ROLFCon took place last week. The official website describes the gathering this way, “Mix up a bunch of super famous internet memes, some brainy academics, a big audience, dump them in Cambridge, MA and you’ve got ROFLCon.” It’s the most recent edition to a long list of fests and cons I would go to if I had unlimited time and money. Oh well.

For those of us who couldn’t make it, the website provides some goodies, like the playlist of a video session called “Sleeper Hits of the Internet.” All of the videos are hilarious, cool, or both, and all are relatively unknown. Most have around 100k views or less.

With 26 links, the list of videos takes some time to get through. My favorite is Losing You by Jan Terri, embedded above. Other notable entries include America We Stand as One by Dennis Madalone, another bone-chillingly awful music video; Alternative Designing Women TV Intro by Fatal Farm, a demented rehash of the opening of the Delta Burke sitcom; and Special Report by Bryan Boyce, a mash-up from ‘99 combining news anchor talking heads with spooky b-movie monologues.

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  • badMike said

    Funny that “Special Report” is now considered an Internet sleeper hit. I saw that years ago at NYUFF. It’s awesome, as are most of Boyce’s political videos.