Wow, the author of the “WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS?” entry at KnowYourMeme.com is passionately opposed to WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS?. Apparently the idea is that there’s some sort of Heisenberg uncertainty principle attached to Internet nonsense, so that when I and others pointed out the memeworthiness of this phrase, we inherently delegitimized it. This is something up with which author Twyst will not put.
I’m not sure what’s my favorite part of the entry. Is it saying “Sean T. Collins decided of his own accord that this phrase should become a meme,” a move later characterized as “premature declaration”? Is it the assertion that “When fans of ‘Whose Responsible This’ tried to introduce it into the wild, it was killed on sight because of it’s declarative nature”? Is it the use of multiple charts and graphs? I think I’ll go with the repeated insinuation that this is some sort of concerted conspiracy by former Wizard employees. As commenter Chris Menning puts it, “‘Whose responsible this’ was a coordinated media effort.” Our responsible this.
Sean T. Collins – Official Media Effort Coordinator?
I’m inclined to believe there is something fishy about that entry, as it is supposedly written by a friend of Ryan’s who then gets Ryan’s name wrong…
Don’t cry, WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS?, you’ll always be a real meme to me.
Just like in real life, you can’t give yourself a nickname, you can’t set out to make a cult film, and perhaps you can’t engineer a meme.
Or perhaps not.
Can the new meme that we add the descriptor “engineered by trained publicists” to the end of things?
I am making a premature declaration of my own accord that I should have a sandwich.