Best Internet Meme of 2010: Tiger Woods Cigar Guy

By Jocelyn Lee

Tiger Woods Cigar Guy…30%

Almost best of:

Paul the Octopus…21%

Ragetoons…9%

Prancing Cera…6%

Gregory Autotune Brothers…5%

So I herd you liek the Tiger Woods cigar guy photo? If not then you’ve dun goof’d. This meme is one of the few that has made it onto the Yahoo headline news.

For those n00bs out there, an internet meme is an idea, video, picture, website, or phrase that gains popularity though the World Wide Web. They are inside jokes created by the internet, and shared mostly through the internet. The origin of the Cigar Guy photo comes from a photo of the famous Tiger Woods, taken by Mark Pain. This photo made front page news because the golf ball was only a mere millisecond away from hitting the camera, shattering the lens to pieces. Now known as the greatest golf photo ever taken, internet surfers appreciated it for something else. The cigar guy can be found in the crowd on the far right, and since the release of the photo, people have been making parody versions of pictures, photoshopping this guy into multiple scenarios to add on to the hilarity of this meme.

Some might argue that Prancing Cera should have won, but they’ll just have to deal with it. Maybe the ones who created the “Double Rainbow Song” and “Bed intruder,” The Autotune Brothers, deserved to win, but haters gonna hate. Those who have attempted the cinnamon challenge would think that they deserve some appreciation after what they went though, but they just have to keep calm and carry on. Strutting Leo and sad Keanu might be jealous because at least they’re famous, and nobody even knows who the cigar guy is, but their argument is invalid.