{"id":21524,"date":"2021-08-05T15:23:36","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T10:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=21524"},"modified":"2021-08-05T15:23:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T10:23:36","slug":"meme-museum-in-hong-kong-brings-viral-posts-offline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/21524","title":{"rendered":"Meme Museum in Hong Kong Brings Viral Posts Offline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Web Desk:<\/p>\n<p>According to gadgets360, the meme craze has jumped out of our mobile phones into the offline world. Until now, most of us were addicted to scrolling our cell phones to check the new memes going viral on the Internet, but an art mall in Hong Kong has opened an exhibition to explore the most interesting cultural snapshots of how we communicate with each other in the 21st century. As memes have become a universal language, the exhibition is an attempt to celebrate the creativity of viral memes from around the world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/16130445-k11-art-mall-x-9gag-museum-exhibition-hong-kong-6_cover_2000x1333-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-21525\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/16130445-k11-art-mall-x-9gag-museum-exhibition-hong-kong-6_cover_2000x1333-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/16130445-k11-art-mall-x-9gag-museum-exhibition-hong-kong-6_cover_2000x1333-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/16130445-k11-art-mall-x-9gag-museum-exhibition-hong-kong-6_cover_2000x1333-scaled.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/16130445-k11-art-mall-x-9gag-museum-exhibition-hong-kong-6_cover_2000x1333-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/16130445-k11-art-mall-x-9gag-museum-exhibition-hong-kong-6_cover_2000x1333-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s meme museum at the K11 Art Mall has created a buzz on social media and has overnight become a trending topic. The exhibition is being organized by 9GAG and K11 mall and showcases over 100 memes. The museum features the evolution of memes through 3D figures and imagery. It is indeed once in a lifetime experience.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/download-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21528\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/download-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/download-1.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/download-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Meme Museum features seven zones themed around the \u201cTroll Face,\u201d \u201cDoge,\u201d \u201cDisaster Girl\u201d, \u201cDrake\u201d and more. The organizers said the other popular memes that have been included in the museum are: Wojak Feels Guy, Yao Ming, and Distracted Boyfriend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/disaster_girl_nyt_1619763942851-scaled.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-21526\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/disaster_girl_nyt_1619763942851-300x200.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/disaster_girl_nyt_1619763942851-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/disaster_girl_nyt_1619763942851-scaled.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/disaster_girl_nyt_1619763942851-768x512.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But what has caught everyone&#8217;s attention is that the museum also features the \u201cdisappointed Pakistani fan\u201d. Later identified as Sarim Akhtar, he had gotten upset with Pakistan&#8217;s performance against Australia during an ICC World Cup 2019 match. The sheer frustration on his face was captured by the cameras as Australia won the game by 41 runs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1627816570_disappointed-pakistani-scaled.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-21527\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1627816570_disappointed-pakistani-300x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1627816570_disappointed-pakistani-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1627816570_disappointed-pakistani-scaled.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1627816570_disappointed-pakistani-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1627816570_disappointed-pakistani-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1627816570_disappointed-pakistani-1536x1536.webp 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to a report by Hype beast, the museum also features the \u201cBeyond the Meme\u201d sensory 4-D interactive experience and the world&#8217;s first meme NFT artwork \u2013 titled In Meme We Love. The organizers have also set $100 cash prizes for those who create original memes during the exhibition that will continue till September 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web Desk: According to gadgets360, the meme craze has jumped out of our mobile phones into the offline world. Until now, most of us were addicted to scrolling our cell phones to check the new memes going viral on the Internet, but an art mall in Hong Kong has opened an exhibition to explore the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1380,1357,7,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","category-entertainment","category-lifestyle","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21530,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21524\/revisions\/21530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}