Meme Man

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Meme Man
Meme Man

Meme Man, sometimes also referred to as Mr. Succ and the Stonks guy has been seen in the panik calm panik meme and has inspired many more Internet meme's which usually contain meme man replacing someone's head with a misspelled word next to meme man. Meme Man is in several memes such as shef meme, gaemer meme, do not question the elevated one meme, and angery meme. Meme Man is depicted as a 3D render of a smooth, bald, and often disembodied blue-eyed male head.[1] He was popularized in the mid-2010s by the artist "Special meme fresh", and became a common character in many surreal memes, a genre of internet humor inspired by surrealism.[2][3] During the 2021 GameStop short squeeze, Meme Man was popularized by users of the subreddit r/wallstreetbets as the face of the "stonks" meme.[4] In April 2021, the multiplayer video game Fortnite released the playable character "Diamond Hanz," based on the design of Meme Man.[5]

The first usage of him as a recurring character was on the Facebook page of the artist "Special meme fresh," and soon spread to become "one of the only consistent stylistic elements" of the surreal memes aesthetic.[2] On June 5, 2017, the artist uploaded an image of Meme Man overlaid on top of a stock photo of a man in a business suit with arms crossed and a chart pointing upwards behind him, and the caption "Stonks," a deliberate misspelling of the word "stocks".[6] The meme went viral and became a common reaction image on Reddit and Twitter.[7][8]

On February 1, 2019, Elon Musk bought a domain name “stankmemes.com“ according to his tweet.[9][10] In June 2020, when Tesla Inc. shares soared he tweeted “stonks” and the website featured this meme.[11][12][13][14]

On August 27, 2020, a tweet by user “@trentandrewrld” comparing Meme Man to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos went viral, accumulating over 400,000 likes as of July 30, 2021.[15][16]

Elon Musk has used both Meme Man and the “stonks” meme as a reaction on Twitter,[3][17] and on January 26, 2021, he tweeted the word “Gamestonk!!”[18] with an attached link to r/wallstreetbets. Immediately afterwards, shares in GameStop rose 157 percent in extended-hours trading, which some linked with Musk’s tweet.[19][20]

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  1. ^ Granata, Yvette (2019). "Meme Dankness: Floating Glittery Trash for an Economic Heresy". Post Memes. Brooklyn, NY: punctum books. ISBN 978-1-950192-43-4. OCLC 1135847279.
  2. ^ a b "Surreal Memes Are the Last Escape the Internet Has". VICE. Retrieved 2021-07-30.
  3. ^ a b Weissmann, Jordan (2021-01-28). "What We Talk About When We Talk About Stonks". Slate Magazine. Retrieved 2021-07-30.
  4. ^ Haasch, Palmer (2021-01-29). "What are 'stonks'? History of GameStop-linked meme explained". Insider. Retrieved 2021-07-30.
  5. ^ "Fortnite now has the Stonks guy". Polygon. April 2021. Retrieved 2021-07-30.
  6. ^ "Why Are People Referring To "Stocks" As "Stonks"?". Dictionary.com. Retrieved 2021-07-30.
  7. ^ "The bizarre 'Stonks' meme has returned". The Daily Dot. 2019-06-17. Retrieved 2021-07-30.
  8. ^ Reynolds, Kelly (2019-06-14). "Stonks Memes". StayHipp. Retrieved 2021-07-30.
  9. ^ "https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1091480239891345408". Twitter. Retrieved 2021-12-20. External link in |title= (help)
  10. ^ "Stankmemes.com owner runs Tesla, Space X". Mashable. February 1, 2019. Retrieved September 10, 2021.
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  12. ^ "https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1270045026907648004". Twitter. Retrieved 2021-12-20. External link in |title= (help)
  13. ^ "Elon Musk weighs in on Tesla's stock again with a 'lol' and a meme". BNNbloomberg. June 11, 2020. Retrieved September 11, 2021.
  14. ^ "Elon Musk weighs in on Tesla's stock again, this time with 'Lol' and a meme". HT Auto. June 11, 2020. Retrieved September 11, 2021.
  15. ^ "Jeff Bezos and His Uncanny Resemblance With 'Meme Man' Could Explain Amazon's Rising 'Stonks'". News18. 28 August 2020. Retrieved 2021-07-30.
  16. ^ Andrew, Trent [@trentandrewrld] (Aug 27, 2020). "They're literally the same" (Tweet). Retrieved 2021-07-30 – via Twitter.
  17. ^ Elon Musk [@elonmusk] (June 20, 2019). "Stonk tip of the day" (Tweet). Retrieved 2021-09-11 – via Twitter.
  18. ^ Elon Musk [@elonmusk] (January 26, 2021). "Gamestonk!!" (Tweet). Retrieved 2021-08-01 – via Twitter.
  19. ^ GmbH, finanzen net. "GameStop explodes another 157% higher after Elon Musk's 'Gamestonk' tweet extends Reddit-driven short squeeze". markets.businessinsider.com. Retrieved 2021-08-01.
  20. ^ Shead, Sam (2021-01-29). "Elon Musk's tweets are moving markets — and some investors are worried". CNBC. Retrieved 2021-08-01.
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