There were actually only 12 people that grabbed the Snakes on a Plane meme, but they were everywhere. :)
posted by Malor at 4:57 PM PST on August 27 cute.

...what was the meme?

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YouTube is kinda making William Gibson's "Pattern Recognition" look amazingly prophetic.
posted by davebush at 4:50 PM hmm look at.

As davebush noted, once again Gibson was there first.
=az - our heroine Cayce Pollard--a soothsaying "cool hunter" with an allergy to brand names-- is among a cult-like group of Internet obsessives that strives to find meaning and patterns within a mysterious collection of video moments, merely called "the footage," let loose onto the Internet by an unknown source. Her hobby and work collide when a megalomaniac client hires her to track down whoever is behind the footage. Cayce's quest will take her in and out of harm's way in a high-stakes game that ultimately coincides with her desire to reconcile her father’s disappearance during the September 11 attacks in New York.Although he forgoes his usual future-think tactics, this is very much a William Gibson novel, more so for fans who realize that Gibson's brilliance lies not in constructing new futures but in using astute observations of present-day cultural flotsam to create those futures. With Pattern Recognition, Gibson skips the extrapolation and focuses his acumen on our confusing contemporary world, using the precocious Pollard to personify and humanize the uncertain anxiety, optimistic hope, and downright fear many feel when looking to the future. -Jeremy Pugh good.

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The Brian Flemming aspect would be fascinating if it was intended to called out as "fake" from the beginning, and his own criticism is part of the fiction.
posted by bobo123 at 9:24 PM PST yup yup. all downhill from that possibility, now.

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I just want to note how Virgina Heffernan is spelled.
posted by cgc373 at 5:38 PM PST on August 27

Shit. I meant "Virginia," of course.
posted by cgc373 at 5:39 PM PST on August 27 funny (short word full stop)