MANILA, Philippines - From tebowing, planking and owling comes new “meme†crazes hadoukening, Vadering and Pottering.
Netizens, mostly in Asia, are now posting memes from different popular characters in series such as Dragon Ball Z, Star wars, and Harry Potter.
Hadouken is a wave like motion special attack by Street Fighter characters, but in the spreading memes hadoukening portray the “kamehama†attack by main characters of Dragon Ball Z.
“It is a photo fad that involves two or more people staging a ‘Qi’ knockout sequence and photographing themselves in mid-action, as seen in the popular Japanese fighting arcade game Street Fighter and manga series Dragon Ball,†the Know Your Meme website said.
Its origin has been circulating on the South Korea web recreating a parody of harnessing and blasting “Kamehama†in the form of energy balls under the generic name “Qi attack play†since 2009.
However, it became more popular when Japanese schoolgirls took their own re-enactment about this gaming move. (See the picture above)
Hadouken is not fading yet another meme, called Vadering, is moving in.
Vadering is a meme recreating the Star Wars scene where Darth Vader uses "The Force" to grab an enemy in a choke hold.
It started in a Fellowship Church in Grapevine, Texas while they were preparing for Easter weekend festivities and a group of staff members attempt a Hadoukening photo, which Rob Martinez shared on his Instagram on March 29, 2013.
Subsequently, he posted two different images to his account portraying a faux choke hold then he used the hashtag “#Vadering†influencing his followers and other social media addicts to create their own.
And another web meme is rising known as Pottering or pictures of netizens portraying the broomstick ride of witches and wizards in the Harry Potter series.
Know Your Meme defines Pottering in its website as: "a photo fad that entails photographing oneself leaping in the air with a broomstick tucked in between the legs in reference to Quidditch, a fictional competitive sport prominently featured in the Harry Potter universe.â€
The meme remarkably became popular on Mar. 5, 2013 when three Australians created a Facebook group named “Public Pottering†that encourages people to submit photos reenacting “Pottering.†The page has increased to more than 6,000 likes and more than 50 photos have been posted.