14 Internet Memes We're Totally Obsessed With Using
13. "False!"
The chance encounter to correct something technical or simply off-put is always a gratifying one. If we hear something that sounds fallacious to us, there's a need to make a much-needed correction. That's where the "False!" meme comes into play. Displaying The Office's own Dwight Schrute, this famous meme usually is made to correct political issues, overbearing arguments, and scientific miscalculations in a sharp and uncompromising manner. The meme is famous for pointing out falsities in the media, while also correcting well-known facts that we thought were true, but not according to Dwight's (or the meme's) knowledge. On the other hand, we are galvanized to accommodate the meme to more simpler, cultural means. When traversing a college campus some students will retort to the most recent pop culture news, they'll implement the meme in a smart, snappy way to correct a falsity in the news. Same applies to other pieces of culture like sports, music, TV shows, and video games. We try to replicate Dwight's imposing, smug, intelligent mannerisms, only to act like indirect caricatures. The end results are still entertaining, even if we try our hardest to be like Dwight.
Ryan Glenn is an amateur writer in pursuit of a career in both the writing and graphic design fields. He currently attends the Art Institutes of Illinois and looks to go back for a degree in journalism. A reader of an exhaustive library of books and an adept music and video game lover, there's no outlet of media that he isn't involved in or doesn't love.