While the peak of the meme occurred in early September, it still has some momentum and prominence in the meme world...even experiencing a small spike in search query's over the past couple of days according to knowyourmeme.
The live Twitter feed for the iphone whale even has an iteration as recently as 4 hours before this blog post was created. What I find most interesting, and ridiculous, and hilarious, however, is what there is to be seen under the derivatives section of the page...
And to further compound the ridiculous nature of the meme, people started creating iterations such as these....
After having a class discussion, and deciding that this meme's lifespan would not be very long, I think it is safe to say that we were sadly mistaken. With no end in sight, the iPhone whale continues its selfish demand for attention, and it would appear that the sky is the limit, for the mobile Free Willy.
The last two iterations are ridiculous but extremely awesome and hilarious. I never thought this meme would spread this much when we talked about it in class. I think it has become funnier as people take it out of the iPhone context and put the whale into other situations. The Free Willy one is the best, and actually made me laugh out loud. I hope this isn't the last time I see the iPhone whale around the Internet.
ReplyDeleteThe free willy one is by far the best and I wish the best for the iPhone whales in captivity still today.
ReplyDeleteThe best part about certain memes like this is when a whale one comes out you rack your brain for all the whales you currently know and see if you can apply this meme to them without really having a reason to.