About
Weird Facebook, is a loose agglomeration of Facebook pages, also known as “Meme Pages,” that create and distribute dank memes, often along a certain theme or topic. Many of these pages have become popular both because of their absurd humor, but also because of possible advantages given to the “Page” format in the Facebook algorithm.
Origin
It’s unknown who invented the idea of creating pages on Facebook and using them to distribute dank memes. Before the page system on Facebook, users were creating humorous user groups; one article from 2008 records seven “weird” groups that had several thousand members, and distributed humorous content on a theme. Facebook Pages were first launched in 2009; many of the earlier Weird Facebook pages were used in a manner similar to Tumblr, with simple image reposts that were not generated by any member or admin of the meme group.
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An early meme repost-type pageOne of the earliest pages of this type was titled Going to MacDonalds for a salad roll is like going to a brothel for a hug, which began as a regular page, run by a person who used it to talk about his or her life, this page posted its first dank meme-style post in 2012; the page now has over 350,000 followers, but ceased posting in late 2012. Another early example is Freddy YOLO, which posted for the first time in July of 2013, and has since acquired over 111,000 followers as of 2016. The first post on that page, an image of outer space, received 28 likes, but recent posts generally receive over 1,000 likes each.
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FreddyYOLO’s first postThe term “Weird Facebook” was coined by a Daily Dot writer in July of 2014, who wrote that the communities “shouldn’t even exist.” October 1st, 2015, a joke article by the offshoot website of an ironic meme group, called Best Stories Online, defined the community from the inside, writing. “Weird Facebook is a subculture of meme pages, secret groups, friend networks, and personalities.” The name was almost certainly adopted from the Weird Twitter subculture; however, while Weird Twitter was mostly made up of people who were exiled from the community of Something Awful, Weird Facebook meme groups also often have Tumblr or Instagram accounts on which they post the same content simultaneously.
Spread
With the launch of Groups and Pages functionality in 2009, users immediately began creating communities that used the idea of assembling groups and communities as a joke. By 2014, The Daily Dot was able to catalogue 10 different Weird Facebook pages that all had more than 10,000 followers, and speculated that there were many more. The groups began to grow quickly in mid-to-late 2015; Freddy YOLO, which had more than 40,000 followers as of 2014, more than doubled in two years.
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Other groups, like Stick Memes, which was founded in November of 2013, grew more slowly. In the beginning of its existence, Stick Memes received an average of 30-40 likes on each of its stick-themed meme images, which were original and tailored to the group’s emphasis on stick-themed jokes. By 2016, Stick Memes has over 25,000 page followers, and it’s average post receives several hundred likes.
One of the most popular Weird Facebook pages is Bernie Sanders’ Dank Meme Stash, which was founded in 2015 to create and publish memes about the presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. As of March 2016, the group has almost 400,000 members, who not only post dank memes about Sanders but also use the group for general discussion about the presidential election.
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Bernie Sanders is not the only public figure to have a Weird Facebook group that focuses on him. One group, Guy Fieri Memes, which has over 7,500 members, focuses only on memes about the famous chef. Other popular meme pages that could fall under the Weird Facebook categorization have philosophical themes; both Nihilist Memes (over 400,000 members) and The Philosopher’s Meme (over 45,000 members) explore this territory.
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Categorizing the spread of these types of meme groups is difficult, if not impossible. However, here is a list of many more notable members of the subculture, along with their membership statistics as of March 2016. (If you would like to add more to the list, please suggest them or request editorship.)
• hTe Spaghetti– 21,000 members
• Shit Memes– 97,000 members
• Museum of Modern Memes– 8,000 members
• Spooki Scary Skeleton– 38,000 members
• Exploding Fish Shitposting and Senseless Drivel, Inc.– 49,000 members
• Post Ironic Memechartcore II: But Then WAS Graph– 15,000 members
• Box de la Box– 15,000 members
• Memes that make you contemplate your existence– 10,000 members
• Niggaz Still Wilin– 67,000 members
• Special Meme Fresh– 53,000 members
• Sassy Socialist Memes– 139,000 members
• Laughapalooza– 29,000 members
• Check Dis Shit Out– 53,000 members
• I play KORN to my DMT plants, smoke blunts all day & do sex stuff– 73,000 members
• Gangster Popeye– 36,000 members
• C a И C E Я 脳疾患 4百20– 41,000 members
• Creme De La Meme/CDLM– 14,000 members
• Kevin 3– 41,000 members
• ＬＳＤ： ＭｅｍｅＥｍｕｌａｔｏｒ– 85,000 members
• Eric’s Creamy Memes For Depressing Teens– 115,000 members
• Difficulty II– 42,000 members
• ShitpostBot 5000– 73,000 members
• Dream de la Meme– 48,000 members
• When hte meam is well executed– 47,000 members
• Fun Silly Drawings for Fun Silly People Haha– 26,000 members
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Memes?– 40,000 members
• Lettuce Dog– 42,000 members
• Spicy Saddam Memes– 36,000 members
• Big “N****” Bird– 35,000 members
• This is not a Meme Page– 20,000 members
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