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February 16th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
1. Linsanity
The classic.
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New York Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin has certainly taken the Internet by storm over the past week or so. But his legend has not yet birthed a single, definitive uber-meme akin to “Tebowing,” the drop-to-one-knee-and-pray craze that dominate the web a few months ago in honor of (or perhaps mocking) Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow.
The closest Lin has come yet is the endless stream of puns that capitalize on using his surname as a springboard. A number of other tributes have popped up online as well, in a variety of forms: a fan who converted a jersey of the Knicks’ highly paid megastar Carmelo Anthony into a Lin shirt, multiple YouTube raps in his honor, and other edited images that play off his unique underdog persona.
The #Linsanity hashtag has also been extremely popular, trending on Twitter multiple times over the past week as an umbrella under which fans pay homage to his greatness.
But is Lin-(insert word here) as cohesive as the Internet’s collective meme-generating brain trust will get? Or will a more precise meme emerge to rule them all? As that drama plays out, check out the gallery above to see some of Mashable’s favorite tributes so far.
And for those who aren’t yet familiar, here’s the #Linsanity backstory, in Cliff’s Notes form: No major college teams wanted him out of high school, so he played at Harvard University. Then no NBA teams drafted him in 2010. He later caught on as a rookie free agent before getting cut twice by teams.
He joined the Knicks at the end of last December and barely got any playing time until about ten days ago, when he got his first chance to start. Since then, he’s somehow scored more points in his first five starts than any player in modern NBA history. If you need more, check out Mashable‘s previous coverage here, here, here and here.
Which Jeremy Lin tribute is your favorite so far? How long can the #Linsanity last? Let us know in the comments.
This story originally published on Mashable here.
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