Internet Memes Push Weezer Forward on YouTube
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
Weezer is back in a big way. Their new video Pork and Beans features a ton of internet celebrities and memes. Here is a list of the cameos:
Daft Hands
Kelly Likes Shoes
Evolution of Dance
Miss South Carolina
World Record for most Tshirts guy
Star Wars Kid
Diet Coke and Mentos guys
GI Joe PSA
K-Fed Popozao
Tay Zonday
Charlie The Unicorn
It’s Peanut Butter Jelly Time
Blend Tech
All Your Base Are Belong To Us
Chris Crocker
Ryan vs Dorkman
Draft Bodies
Crank That Soldier Boy
Guitar Man Band
NumaNuma
Dramatic Look Prairie Dog
How the Dramatic Prairie Dog was Born
Kicesie
Afro Ninja
Pancake Mines
Because Weezer is a big part of American pop culture and these memes are a big part of internet pop culture, we can likely expect to see some serious mishmashing.
iTunes
Miro
RSS
You can always pay to make a meme.
I did love it though. :D
Do you think this can be done again?
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Pork and Beans is a great video, but there is only one question ……. will it blend?
This has to be one of my favorite music videos ever. Great piece Sarah.
Haha! It will live on forever! Just like video archived on the internet. :-)
Saying anything more than “genius” or “brilliant” would be redundant.
[...] Weezer has just release a music video of its new single Pork and Beans. In this video, there are a collections of internet memes. I won’t go into too much detail about which ones were seen, but Sarah Meyers has done an excellent job of explaining the nerd/geek culture of Weezer and their appeal towards a new tech/geek/nerd generation. She also has links to the internet memes that were in the video so you can see what the big fuss was about. The music video is just below and you can check out Sarah’s vlog (video blog) here. [...]
Genius genius genius!
Oh and btw it’s Austin. :-P