Show HN: This Meme Does Not Exist

#1

Post by dylanwenzlau » Tue, Apr 23, 2019, 6:18 PM UTC

Show HN: This Meme Does Not Exist
imgflip.com

Re: Show HN: This Meme Does Not Exist

#2

Post by adnanazadsg » Tue, Apr 23, 2019, 8:16 PM UTC

I dont understand this, but I like it :) - Is the name a play on thispersondoesnotexist.com ?

Re: Show HN: This Meme Does Not Exist

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Post by dylanwenzlau » Tue, Apr 23, 2019, 8:19 PM UTC

Shortcut link to the accompanying article about building the conv net: https://towardsdatascience.com/meme-text-generation-with-a-d...

Re: Show HN: This Meme Does Not Exist

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Post by dylanwenzlau » Tue, Apr 23, 2019, 8:20 PM UTC

adnanazadsg wrote: post #2

I dont understand this, but I like it :) - Is the name a play on thispersondoesnotexist.com ?

Yea, seemed like "this [neural net generated thing] does not exist" was itself becoming a meme, so of course I had to participate!

Re: Show HN: This Meme Does Not Exist

#5

Post by speeq » Tue, Apr 23, 2019, 8:29 PM UTC

dylanwenzlau wrote: post #3

Shortcut link to the accompanying article about building the conv net: https://towardsdatascience.com/meme-text-generation-with-a-d...

I noticed that imgflip is using Cloudflare. Just curious - if you're willing to share this information - what are your traffic levels and hosting costs like? Does hosting a large percentage of static asset require a Cloudflare enterprise contract? Cheers

Re: Show HN: This Meme Does Not Exist

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Post by dylanwenzlau » Tue, Apr 23, 2019, 8:44 PM UTC

speeq wrote: post #5

dylanwenzlau wrote: post #3

Shortcut link to the accompanying article about building the conv net: https://towardsdatascience.com/meme-text-generation-with-a-d...

I noticed that imgflip is using Cloudflare. Just curious - if you're willing to share this information - what are your traffic levels and hosting costs like? Does hosting a large percentage of static asset require a Cloudflare enterprise contract? Cheers

When Imgflip moved to Cloudflare they did require an enterprise contract if we would use Cloudflare as a CDN (lots of static assets, in our case .jpg and .gif). The contract was a constant price per month as opposed to per-GB like classic CDNs. It's possible contracts are different now though Imgflip has been there a while.

Re: Show HN: This Meme Does Not Exist

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Post by nautical » Wed, Apr 24, 2019, 6:42 AM UTC

TBH, I tried for couple of minutes and got nothing meaningful.

Re: Show HN: This Meme Does Not Exist

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Post by Vaskivo » Wed, Apr 24, 2019, 9:59 AM UTC

nautical wrote: post #7

TBH, I tried for couple of minutes and got nothing meaningful.

Yet some were so surreal and nonsense that actually made me laugh!

Re: Show HN: This Meme Does Not Exist

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Post by crazygorilla » Wed, Apr 24, 2019, 4:17 PM UTC

It is nonsense but it made me laugh :) I see potential in nonsense memes!

Re: Show HN: This Meme Does Not Exist

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Post by rspeele » Wed, Apr 24, 2019, 9:00 PM UTC

nautical wrote: post #7

TBH, I tried for couple of minutes and got nothing meaningful.

I actually really like some of them, trying the different formats. They subvert my expectations.

https://imgflip.com/i/2zdiup https://imgflip.com/i/2zdj93 https://imgflip.com/i/2zdjtg https://imgflip.com/i/2zdjvn

They remind me of the anti-joke Louis CK's daughter came up with:

> > Who didn't let the Gorilla into the ballet? > Just the people who are in charge of that decision.