My favorite meme right now is an image of this cat which has been floating around the internet: http://nerdapproved.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/pikachu-cat.jpg
I have no idea where the original came from, but it's brilliant. Perhaps it stems out of lolcats; it has been clearly established after all that the entire internet likes cats. Plus, Pokemon is an international phenomenon that almost everyone is aware of. Combine the two and you have a recipe for memetic success. It is just another variation of a lolcat, but it's unique variation allowed it to rise to fame, a type of evolutionary success.
(By the way, no cats were harmed in the creation of this meme, it's been confirmed that the image was photoshoped.)
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