Salon.com > texts from hillary http://www.salon.com Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Ermahgerd! The year in memes http://www.salon.com/2012/12/31/ermahgerd_the_year_in_memes/ http://www.salon.com/2012/12/31/ermahgerd_the_year_in_memes/#comments Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13156154 To be honest, any year that doesn't have a Nyan cat in it is a bit of a comedown. But 2012 nevertheless provided its own special viral charms — some of which didn't even involve felines. So we say thanks to Ridiculously Photogenic Guy and Overly Attached Girlfriend, and to all those other viral stars we couldn't get out of our heads if we tried.

Shit Girls Say

It began as a Twitter feed in 2011, but it was in 2012 that Graydon Sheppard and Kyle Humphrey's devastating drag parody of feminine phrases truly took over the world. Though blowing the lid off the Twinsies!-peppered world of chick vernacular earned Sheppard and Humphrey their share of critics, it also inspired a treasure trove of witty imitations, notably Chesca Leigh's also-gone-viral Shit White Girls Say to Black Girls. It even went old school and became a book. Shut UP! 

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