It’s called “Has Anyone Said This Shit?” and it’s a directory for all of those videos following the “Shit that…” meme cadence.

You’re given a blank line and the rest is up to you. Simply type something in to see if a video has been made about it, and you’ll see options autocomplete below the search box:

Once you’ve found what you’re interested in, just click it and the YouTube video will display below. There’s not much else to say about it other than what took someone so long to make this?

There’s no sign of this trend slowing down, as any and every topic and type of person has been covered in one of these videos, and now you can waste your entire day watching them all.

➤ Has Anyone Said This Shit?

The Occupy Wall Street movement is a very serious one, spanning every major city in the United States. However, some internet memes have come out of it, such as “The Hot Chicks of Occupy Wallstreet“, as well as a myriad of hashtags on Google+ and Twitter.

If only this whole movement was a game.

If you use anything on the Internet that is remotely social, you’ve more than likely seen a post by “Laughing Squid” come up in your Twitter or Facebook streams.

Scott Beale, the man behind Laughing Squid, is an institution on the web. Laughing Squid was started as a video production company 16 years ago today, and has evolved into a web hosting and blogging phenomenon.

Beale has the uncanny ability to latch onto potential meme’s before they become hot, in every format. If we had the ability to track the source of the web’s hottest YouTube videos, Laughing Squid would no doubt be at the forefront of the launchpad.

Along with amazing web content and hosting services, Beale is famous for his meetups in NYC and SF, as well as every year in Austin at the SXSW conference. His laid back style brings people together unlike any other property on the web.

If you’ve ever wanted to know where the name “Laughing Squid” came from, Scott Beale explains it:

The idea of squid worked well as part of the name since the multiple tentacles would be a metaphor for all of the various things I wanted to do with the company. From the very beginning I knew we would be involved in way more areas than just film and video production, which was the case as we expanded into local art promotion with the launch of The Squid List, then web design, which led to web hosting and then finally the blog which you are now reading.

And having the squid laugh was an absurd concept. There has always been some kind of humor element involved with things I’ve been involved with. Even the Alonso Smith documentary was about a satirical surrealist who used humor throughout his work.

So there you have it, the Laughing Squid has been bringing us awesome content since 2005 in blog format, but got its start way before that. What would we do without Scott’s ability to find the best stuff on the web? I’m sure someone will create a meta video about it, and of course it will pop up on Laughing Squid.

From all of us at The Next Web, Happy Birthday Laughing Squid!

➤ Laughing Squid

There is an interesting, and amusing, meme (some people say it is a classic dating back to this in january 2008) going around on facebook which I wanted to share with you.

But first, the result. This is the new album from my imaginary band called ‘Mourning Dove’. Cool huh?

Want your own band and album?
Follow the instructions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random ). The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.

2 – Go to quotationspage.com and hit random ( http://quotationspage.com/random.php3 ). The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

3 – Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days” (http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days ). Third picture no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4 – Use photoshop or similar (picnik.com is a free online photo editor) to put it all together.

5 – Post it with this text in the “caption” and TAG the friends you want to join in.

As far as I can tell the (recent) meme was started by Igor Teeuwen, a Dutch designer.

Here is my album post on Facebook. So go ahead, find out what your bands name is and do post the images in the comments here so we can all enjoy them.

A few more examples:

Read the title? Googled 241543903 yet? If not, do it now.

Done it?

Fun huh?

Okay, it isn’t exactly a new new thing, and started as early as 2009, according to 241543903.com. But I first found out about it this morning, tweeted it, got 50 retweets within an hour or so and so decided that apparently it is still pretty new to a large part of our audience.

Want to join this meme? Read this:

TAKE A PHOTOGRAPH OF YOUR HEAD
INSIDE A FREEZER. UPLOAD THIS PHOTO
TO THE INTERNET (LIKE FLICKR). TAG THE
FILE WITH: 241543903. THE IDEA IS THAT IF
YOU SEARCH FOR THIS CRYPTIC TAG, ALL
THE PHOTOS OF HEADS IN FREEZERS
WILL APPEAR. I JUST DID ONE.

Easy? Lets head for the freezer then!

Not like you have anything else to do at the end of the year, right?

Of course this wouldn’t be the internet if some people wouldn’t have taken this into NSFW territory. Tsk.