I'mma let you finish...

So I feel like the Kanye Interrupting meme may die rather soon, but the history major within me is just so very amused by this one. And my vague tendencies not to take religion as seriously as I should think this one is freaking hilarious. The VMAs were this past Sunday and already by Monday there was a website dedicated to the whole endeavor of pointing out what a huge douche Kanye was to Taylor Swift. I don't particularly like Taylor Swift, I don't particularly like Kanye (though I actually have some Kanye in my iTunes while I definitely don't have any Taylor Swift), but I think Barack Obama was certainly justified in calling the man a jackass.

What I ultimately find fascinating is the rate at which something like this becomes a part of internet culture, how quickly it's just another thing to laugh at, another enormous in-joke that would take quite a long time to explain to my mother. I briefly toyed with the idea of trying to explain lolcats to her once, but I couldn't get past the point of, "Why do they spell things incorrectly?" Once you become acquainted with a meme and start appreciating it, it's like joining an enormous club that everyone can be a member of but that parts of the population will never understand. And like any good inside joke, those on the inside laugh whole-heartedly while those outside shake their heads and furrow their brows.

I don't know that I'm going anywhere with this, but at least I wrote for the day :)