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Y U NO PICK UP YOUR DIRTY SOCKS?!?

For a meme to “go viral” on the internet has typically meant that a particular idea¹ is rapidly propagated² across the internet.  To stretch the medical metaphor, the vector of infection would be the internet itself – probably through Facebook, Twitter, or even e-mail forwards.

What’s interesting to me is that while this analogy went from the physical world of medicine into the digital world of the internet, 3D printing can allow a digital meme to be rebroadcast across the world of matter.  Look at the existing memes that have already been posted to Thingiverse – the “Y U No Guy,” a creepy bear, and the Nyan cat to name just a few.³  What I particularly liked about fromar’s “Y U NO Guy” comic/meme/print is the way his wife uses the print:

My wife has been leaving this guy on the junk she wants me to pick up to say: Y U NO PICK UP YOUR DIRTY SOCKS?!?

Who would ever thought that the “Y U NO Guy” meme would ever have been spread across a dirty sock vector?

Y U No? Guy by fromar

It's the Internet meme "Y U NO?" Guy.knowyourmeme.com/memes/y-u-no-guy My wife has been leaving this guy on the junk she wants me to pick up to say: Y U NO PICK UP YOUR DIRTY SOCKS?!?

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1. Or meme [↩]
2. Repeated and passed on [↩]
3. There’s also my contribution…  I’d really suggest NOT trying it out.  You have been warned. [↩]