I crave that mineral: who are these goats?

I know this meme may be a little old now, it reached the internet in December 2014 and lasted about a week.


The origin:

A picture of multiple mountain goats climbing an almost 90 degree angle was posted on Tumblr with the caption:

"Alpine Ibexes climb nearly 90 degree angles to lick salt deposits of of mountainsides. They crave that mineral."

After this post gained popularity, people began making spin-off Tumblr posts; some good examples are:

The goat: you must be wondering "WHO IS THIS GOAT?" Don't fret, I shall tell you.

The Alpine ibex, is a type of goat that lives in the European Alps. After extensive research, I have concluded that the mountain goats in the original picture are on a dam in the Italian Alps.

Although the photo was taken in 2010 and has been featured on multiple social networking sites, the picture finally went viral 4 months ago when it was posted on Tumblr. I believe that it was the caption "They crave that mineral" that made the post so popular.

Here is a google chart for the popularity of the phrase "I crave that mineral":

http://www.google.com/trends/explore?hl=en-US#tz&q=I+crave+that+mineral&cmpt=q

Do you crave this mineral?

Memes: The origin of the phrase

The first use of the word 'Meme' was in 1976 when a man by the name of Richard Dawkins invented this word to use in his book 'The Selfish Gene'. He used this word to describe human behavior and how information spreads.

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                                                     He sparked a revolution.





Dawkins was born in Kenya but later moved to England - where his parents are from. Despite being born in Kenya, he is a British citizen.

 Dawkins is aware that his word is used widely throughout the internet and recently defined the word to suit the term 'Internet Meme'. He said very simply that a meme is "a hijacking of the original idea".

What do we learn from all this? That the origin of the word Meme comes from Britain obviously. Richard Dawkins is a very smart guy who has influenced millions, even billions of lives all over the world. I he hadn't invented this word, this blog would probably be called something else - probably 'The Geography of Internet Trends'. Or this blog might not even exist, because there is something so catchy about the word 'meme' that I might not be interested enough in the subject to write a blog about it.

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                                                       He was also on Doctor Who, so that's cool.

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Hi, I'm Deborah, and I am setting up this blog for a school project. This blog will mostly be related to memes and their relation to geography(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻