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Photo Gallery: Making Meme Shirts at the Library

Local girls research the phenomenon of Internet memes and image macros and design their own for T-shirts at Thomas Ford Memorial Library.

Thomas Ford can has meme shirts? Can has all the meme shirts?

Local kids (all girls) explored the world of online image-macro culture—captioning easily-identifiable images with variations of the same pithy text—before ironing the humorous designs onto T-shirts in a class at Thomas Ford Memorial Library on Wednesday afternoon.

The two most popular designs were the "Keep Calm" and "X All the Y" memes. "Keep Calm and Marry 1D," one girl's shirt read, referring to the pop band One Direction. "Catch all the Pokemons!" read another, alluding to the franchise's "Gotta Catch 'em All" motto.

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